This reminds me of when I grew up in a village and we had the annual village feast. In some cases there are village shows or fêtes as they are called. Some are called Shows and are agricultural shows as well. My mother worked in one village that claims the largest show in England https://www.heckingtonshow.org.uk/
As for the food gatherings I used to co-ordinate Collective Kitchens. The idea is simple. You have a chef - and they tell others what to do. We tried to pick someone from a different culture each time - then they knew the tricks of their ethnic food - so an Italian did pizza for example. The chef then directs others to cook, we share the costs and the clean-up. SO everyone learns to cook better. If you cannot cook you still eat well. Over time we started to get a better range of food, more people and surprisingly donations e.g. a basket of apples. Also the cost was cheap - we were not making a profit and you have to cook anyway - we just shared the costs.
This collective kitchen was separate from the radical food projects like dumpster diving, soup Sundays or Restaurant Day - also started in Finland - where people had pop up restaurants in their own home. Though some of the same people were involved in these circles too. https://finland.fi/life-society/finlands-pop-up-carnival-of-good-taste/
This reminds me of when I grew up in a village and we had the annual village feast. In some cases there are village shows or fêtes as they are called. Some are called Shows and are agricultural shows as well. My mother worked in one village that claims the largest show in England https://www.heckingtonshow.org.uk/
As for the food gatherings I used to co-ordinate Collective Kitchens. The idea is simple. You have a chef - and they tell others what to do. We tried to pick someone from a different culture each time - then they knew the tricks of their ethnic food - so an Italian did pizza for example. The chef then directs others to cook, we share the costs and the clean-up. SO everyone learns to cook better. If you cannot cook you still eat well. Over time we started to get a better range of food, more people and surprisingly donations e.g. a basket of apples. Also the cost was cheap - we were not making a profit and you have to cook anyway - we just shared the costs.
This collective kitchen was separate from the radical food projects like dumpster diving, soup Sundays or Restaurant Day - also started in Finland - where people had pop up restaurants in their own home. Though some of the same people were involved in these circles too. https://finland.fi/life-society/finlands-pop-up-carnival-of-good-taste/