Curious Food
A series of conversations about food, the body and the way we live.
What if we stopped asking simply, “What should I eat?” And started asking better questions?
Can food influence desire?
Help us sleep, recover and perform?
Change the way we age?
Help us feel better in our bodies without the rules, restriction or wellness noise?
Each session brings together a leading expert with Plant Academy’s plant-based culinary approach to explore one big question:
What can food do for how we feel, function and live?
We’re looking at food through more than just the lens of nutrition.
We’re exploring pleasure, hormones, energy, performance, sleep, longevity, digestion, desire and wellbeing and how the food we eat can become part of a richer, more connected way of living.
This is food education, but not as you know it.
It’s curious, practical, evidence-informed and delicious.
Five Sessions. Five Questions. One curious approach.
Sex. Cycle. Longevity. Sleep. Detox.
Different subjects. Different experts. Different perspectives.
Connected by one belief:
Food is much more interesting than a list of nutrients.
The First Season
Five conversations. Five big questions. Five different ways of thinking about food.
Sex Food
With Aisha Paris Smith · October 14
What does food have to do with desire?
We’ll explore the relationship between food, circulation, energy, hormones and sexual wellbeing looking at how what we eat may influence the way we feel, connect and experience our bodies.
Expect: conversation, insight and practical food inspiration around desire, vitality and wellbeing.
Cycle Food
With Camilla Clair · October 21
Our bodies don’t stay the same throughout the month. So why should the way we eat?
This session explores nutrition across the menstrual cycle and the ways food can support energy, mood, nourishment and wellbeing at different phases.
A chance to understand the cycle through food and rethink some of the assumptions around what our bodies need.
Longevity Food
With Sara Kiyo Popowa October 28
What can plants, eating patterns and culinary traditions teach us about ageing well?
Longevity isn’t simply about living longer. It’s about how we live along the way.
We’ll explore the role food can play in healthy ageing, from the plants we eat to the habits, rituals and culinary practices that can support a longer, healthier life.
Sleep Food
With Livy Van Goh November 4
Could what’s on your plate affect how you sleep?
We’ll explore the connection between food, sleep, rest and recovery looking at how everyday eating habits can support the body’s ability to wind down, restore and recharge.
Practical ideas, useful insights and food you’ll actually want to eat.
Detox Food
With Daria Hynes · November 11
Forget the juice cleanses and wellness hype. What does a genuine reset actually look like?
This session explores food for digestion, nourishment and feeling good, taking a more grounded look at what our bodies need and what they don’t when we want to reset our habits and feel better. Less restriction. More nourishment.
Meet The Experts
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Aisha Paris Smith
SEX FOOD
Aisha is a certified somatic sexologist, sex educator, bodyworker and transformational coach, working with people of all genders and orientations to help them reconnect with their bodies, desires and potential. Her approach blends trauma-informed, hands-on methods with playful exploration. She's a key faculty member at the Relational Harmony Institute, training the next generation of sexologists. -
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Camilla Clair
CYCLE FOOD
Camilla is a naturopath, nutritionist and holistic health practitioner with more than 15 years' experience, with a particular focus on plant-based nutrition, menstrual health and the relationship between food, hormones and emotional wellbeing. Her approach is shaped by both clinical training and lived experience, Family Constellations and other mind-body approaches. She is a vegan and a passionate advocate for well-planned plant-based nutrition across the female life cycle. -
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Sara Kiyo Popowa
LONGEVITY FOOD
Sara is the artist and photographer behind Shiso Delicious, known for her colourful, whole-food bento boxes and her focus on simplicity, colour and nutrition. She's the author of Bento Power: Brilliantly Balanced Lunchbox Recipes, and a longstanding friend of Plant Academy who has helped bring several of our courses to life through her visual art, food styling and photography. -
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Livy Van Goh
SLEEP FOOD
Livy is a holistic sleep expert working across nutrition, exercise, environment and mindful ritual to help people rebuild a healthier relationship with rest. Her background spans dreamwork explored through cultural, scientific and spiritual perspectives, and she runs workshops and retreats teaching practical techniques for deeper, more regenerative sleep. -
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Daria Hynes
DETOX FOOD
Daria is a certified Health Coach, trained through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and Global Healing Institute, working with clients to identify the root causes behind chronic fatigue and low-grade "off" feelings, rather than reaching for another quick fix. Her approach centres on helping people reconnect with their own intuition and build a relationship with their body they can trust without her, shaping changes around the life someone actually lives rather than a curated version of wellness.
The Curious Food Experience
Each masterclass is 60 minutes of conversation, ideas, questions and practical inspiration.
30-40 Minutes
The conversation
A relaxed, engaging conversation or presentation with our guest expert.
We’ll unpack their area of expertise, challenge assumptions and explore the questions we’re all curious about — without turning the session into a lecture.
15-20 Minutes
Ask The Expert
Our Q&A draws from questions submitted before the session as well as those asked live, creating space to go deeper into the topics that matter to you.
4 Recipes
Per Session
Every masterclass comes with four simple, functional recipes inspired by the theme of the session.
You’ll receive the recipes as a PDF after the series, giving you practical ways to take what you’ve learned and put it into practice.
Curious Food isn’t about telling you what you should eat.
There are already enough rules.
Instead, we want to create space to ask better questions, hear from people who know their subjects deeply, and discover new ways of thinking about the food we eat every day.
You might come away with a new perspective.
A new ingredient to try. A new question to investigate. Or simply a recipe you can’t wait to make.
Come curious. Leave inspired.
Why Curious Food?
Food sits at the centre of almost everything we do.
We eat for nourishment, but also for pleasure.
We eat to celebrate, connect and comfort.
We eat to fuel our work, our movement and our recovery.
We eat as part of our routines, cultures and rituals.
So rather than reducing food to calories, nutrients or rules, Curious Food looks at the bigger picture.
Each masterclass takes one aspect of human life and asks: Could food play a bigger role here than we realise?
The answers won’t always be simple. And that’s the point. We’re here to explore.
Join The Season
INDIVIDUAL MASTERCLASS
Join one conversation that sparks your curiosity.
Replay available 24 hours after the class.
Hosted on Zoom.
FULL FIVE-SESSION SEASON
Get access to all five Curious Food masterclasses.
Replay available 24 hours after the class.
Hosted on Zoom.