At the heart of every culture lies its food. “Culinary Traditions” celebrates the rich, diverse, and time-honored cooking practices passed down through generations around the world.
Culinary Traditions
Gourmet Pantry Kit
A globally inspired pantry box that brings ingredients and stories into home kitchens.
DESCRIPTION
Each box features ingredients from a specific country or region, along with background stories, cultural facts, and recipes. For example, a kit from Thailand might include tamarind paste, fish sauce, dried chilies, and a hand-illustrated card describing their history and uses.
MISSION FOCUS
The Gourmet Pantry Kit reinforces our mission of exploring culture through food experiences by curating regional ingredients, introducing cultural background stories, and highlighting traditional cooking practices from the world.
SIMILARITIES
Bokksu, Diaspora Co., Try The World
DIFFERENTIATORS
It prioritizes lesser-known cultural details and culinary practices, not just trendy items.
A curated gourmet pantry kit featuring global spices and hand-illustrated recipe cards, inviting users to explore cultural stories through taste and tradition.
A spice-filled world map created from regional ingredients—capturing the essence of the Gourmet Pantry Kit’s mission to bring global flavors and stories into every home kitchen.
A joyful family moment unfolds as parents and children cook together using ingredients from the Gourmet Pantry Kit—blending storytelling, cultural learning, and flavor into a shared kitchen experience.
Heirloom Tableware
A collection of tableware inspired by traditional dining rituals around the world.
DESCRIPTION
Handcrafted pieces that reflect regional craftsmanship and cultural meaning. Each plate, bowl, or utensil is thoughtfully designed in collaboration with local artisans, showcasing materials, motifs, and rituals from a particular region. For example, a Moroccan tea glass with symbolic engravings or
a Japanese rice bowl modeled after ceremonial aesthetics.
MISSION FOCUS
Heirloom Tableware reinforces our mission of exploring culture through food experiences by showcasing handcrafted utensils, reflecting dining rituals, and honoring symbolic materials rooted in regional culinary traditions.
SIMILARITIES
SOMA, MUD Australia, Anthropologie Home
DIFFERENTIATORS
Products are created with deep storytelling, not just
aesthetic inspiration.
More than a gift—this box carries a legacy. Tableware that remembers hands, meals, and stories once shared.
A cabinet of memory: textiles, vessels, recipes, and tools—each item an artifact of everyday life, handmade and handed down.
A vessel passed between generations—not just an object, but a quiet keeper of family rituals, memories, and timeless care.
The Taste Lab
A digital learning lab where users explore global culinary traditions, rituals, and scientific links.
DESCRIPTION
This virtual learning environment combines hands-on experiments with cultural investigations. Users engage in taste tests, ingredient tracing, historical modules, and regional ritual studies. Each unit blends food science with anthropology to deepen appreciation of food systems across time and place.
MISSION FOCUS
The Taste Lab reinforces our mission of exploring culture through food experiences by blending food science with global traditions, offering interactive virtual experiments,
and connecting rituals to regional identity.
SIMILARITIES
Harvard Science + Cooking, Exploratorium
DIFFERENTIATORS
Its holistic structure merges STEM education with food culture and heritage, bridging curiosity and cross-cultural understanding.
A close-up view of neatly aligned spice-filled glass jars in a modern culinary lab, showcasing the scientific precisionbehind flavor exploration.
A state-of-the-art culinary lab equipped with digital tablets, vibrant ingredients, and visual data screens—where science meets the art of food.
