The Food Culture Project brings food culture to life through engaging, multi-sensory experiences and educational tools that make food literacy accessible far beyond the usual “food bubble.” By raising awareness about how food is produced, consumed, and shared, it highlights food as a powerful unifying force at the center of our lives—connecting people to one another and to the planet. Rooted in regional sustainability yet globally connected, the project champions local food systems as essential to climate action while preserving and evolving food and eating traditions as vital cultural heritage. Through socially responsible practices and a network of educators, artists, chefs, designers, producers, nutritionists, and scientists, it fosters vibrant community knowledge exchange and creates inspiring learning environments—both online and in physical spaces—for people of all ages. By sparking curiosity and offering practical tools, the Food Culture Project empowers individuals to make thoughtful food choices that support both personal well-being and the health of our planet. 

WHO

KIT SCHULTE, Founder

Kit Schulte is a Berlin-based creative entrepreneur, food culture experience designer, author and content producer, whose strength lies in connecting seemingly different sectors—always with an eye on how popular cultures and narratives shift due to changes within society. Her focus and talent is to produce communal events outside of the usual, prompting people to go into meaningful dialogue and exchange. Today, she channels this vision through The Food Culture Project, which uses multi-sensory experiences and educational tools to make food culture accessible to diverse audiences, from educators to chefs. This initiative is the latest expression of her lifelong commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration, building on her earlier work as the founder of SATELLITE BERLIN, a mobile cultural hub that fostered international dialogue across art, science, and innovation.

Kit’s approach is rooted in a deep exploration of the cultural narratives behind food. She shares this perspective through her cookbook Modern German Food from a Berlin Kitchen, as well as through EAT LIKE A BERLINER, a combined market tour and cooking class for tourists and visitors. She is known for reviving Berlin’s salon culture, hosting gatherings that blend art, culinary delights, and lively conversation, bringing together people from all walks of life. Her work continues to redefine how food and culture can create community and spark transformative conversations.

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AFFILIATES

INES LAUBER, Food Experience Designer

Inés Lauber is a Berlin-based food designer and cultural innovator whose work explores the intersections of food, art, and society. Since 2012, she has been the owner and founder of Food Design Studio Inés Lauber, and has  shared her expertise as a teacher, holding positions at FH Potsdam for Food Design courses. She has mentored at the Slow Food Academy Germany and at KAOS Pilots Experience Design Training in 2023.  Inés designs immersive food experiences, exhibitions, and workshops that illuminate the connections between agriculture, art, literature, science, and politics, always with a focus on food culture as a living cultural good. Her practice is rooted in storytelling, speculative design, and the belief that food can be a powerful medium for dialogue, sustainability, and cultural heritage.
RENEE COHEN, Cook and Food educator

Renee Cohen is a cook and food educator from New York with a passion for connecting people to food. She is currently based in Berlin as a freelance food artist seeking creative ways to bring food geography into people’s daily lives by making sense of where we exist in the food system and what agency we have to feed ourselves. Renee earned her Master’s in Gastronomy from an Italian university affiliated with the Slow Food movement and has since worked at the food bookstore, Kitchen Arts & Letters, and launched her own food coaching project, Kitchen Companion. Renee’s former background in supply chain and sourcing has influenced her approach as a coach by leaning on practical solutions that make it easier for people to access cooking within their specific context. She hopes to collaborate with more people who are eager to use food as a lens for understanding the world and connecting to each other.
AURITTE ROSS, Founder, CEO Celsius & Beyond

For her sixth-grade science project, Auritte built a lightbulb at her home in Israel and connected it to batteries. Not satisfied with the results, she connected the light bulb to the electric outlet. For a split second, the room lit up like a baseball field at night! Then the fuse box burned, and her parents banned her from doing any science experiment without supervision. Luckily, her teacher was not fazed by the near-disaster event and thought it was worthy of a good grade. Auritte’s love for science has never ceased. Over a decade ago, she got involved with her two daughters’ science school projects and was disappointed to see that they were not as “electrifying” as her own experience. She then decided, in 2007, to create Celsius and Beyond, where kids can enjoy and experiment with science, with encouraging supervision. Auritte spent 12 years in the high tech industry in Silicon Valley prior to opening her first science kids camp and is a cum laude economics graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia.
NOGA SHTAINER, Photographer

Noga is from Israel and lives and works in Berlin. Her  photographs deal with childhood and family, beauty and transience, lust and suffering, life and death. With 15 she discovered photography and began documenting and staging private, intimate moments in her family’s daily life: I was 15-years-old when I began creating my first project “Near Conscious” It took me 12 years to complete. Since then, the projects I create often focus on and explore different communities and social themes but a constant thread running parallel through my work is a deep interest in the relationship that individuals have to both their social and more intimate personal identities. My goal is to use my art to highlight positive societal changes by showing the individual, the outsider, and their behavior.

Noga participated in the project “Art Vending Machine” at the Jewish Museum in Berlin and was invited to be a curator at the “International Photography Festival” in Israel. Her works have been published and reviewed in international publications, including “Dente Di Fotogra”, “Der Spiegel”, “brennpunkt”, “The Marker”, “Artberlin”, “Berlin Quarterly” and many more. She has published the series: Homesick, Home Sweet Home (Airbnb), Pandora, Wagenburg, Twins – Duo Morality, Home for special Children and Near Conscious.
HANNAH MÖSER, Food Culture Practitioner, Trend Researcher and Project Manager

Hannah Möser explores the cultural narratives behind food and how everyday practices shape communities and contemporary lifestyles. Her work combines culinary practice, cultural research and community engagement. She worked as a baker and market vendor at Markthalle Neun in Berlin and later as an assistant cook and project manager for The Food Culture Project, contributing to educational and multi-sensory formats around food culture. Her passion for food is rooted in both professional and personal experience. Alongside her work, she grows fruits, vegetables and herbs in her self-sufficiency garden and enjoys baking, particularly sweet pastries. As a freelance trend researcher, she analyzes cultural shifts and emerging lifestyles, connecting broader societal change with questions of food, sustainability, craftsmanship and community.