The People’s Kitchen

Gina de Boer explores the student-led initiative, The People’s Kitchen, in Lund as an eco-socialist manifestation, as it combines the act of dumpster diving with food sharing – thereby organizing around basic needs, gifts and reciprocity as opposed to economic profit. She argues that in its aim to minimize food waste and overconsumption, The People’s Kitchen forms a gentle act of resistance against the industrial food system’s capitalist modes of production, and its consequent social and ecological impacts. Additionally, as the People’s Kitchen provides breeding ground for nourishing social bonds and finding alternative ways of being together, it resists capitalism and its tendency for community degradation.