The goal of Bowl & Tell is to cultivate a sense of community through personal recipes, tied together by one thing: love for fresh, local food. Bowl & Tell serves as an archive of recipes with a story attached that simultaneously provides a resource and opportunity to try something new, but also to learn about what makes them special.

Market-goers can sign up to make a dish that tells a personal story, to be plated and photographed in a handmade ceramic bowl. Their recipes, using mainly seasonal market ingredients, will be transcribed and available for anyone to peruse and follow, acting as a digital cookbook as well as a storybook for the market’s community.

Bowl & Tell is a collaboration with Michael J. Strand, a ceramic artist and professor at North Dakota State University.  This project builds off of the “Bowls Around Town Project” which has similar aims and has been launched in places as far away as the Netherlands and Brazil. Strand is the 2015 Ceramic Artist of the Year awarded from Ceramics Monthly, the largest craft publication internationally. He has lectured, exhibited, and developed projects on just about every continent. Michael is inspired in this project as a lover of great food, handmade stuff and his desire to be located in the Northwest United States.

If you are interested in participating in Bowl & Tell, please reach out to us!

Click below to browse through our Bowl & Tell recipes and the stories that go along with them.