About this Event
Suzette joins Books Inc. Alameda for an engaging Earth Month conversation. She will explore how food traditions, cultural knowledge, and communal meals can restore connection, to ourselves, to each other, and to the earth.
Come Back to the Table: Food, Burnout & the Healing Power of Eating Together
In a time when burnout, loneliness, and chronic disease are on the rise, one of the most powerful tools for healing may be surprisingly simple: sharing food together.
In this engaging Earth Month conversation, public health storyteller Suzette Chaumette, MPH explores how food traditions, cultural knowledge, and communal meals can restore connection—to ourselves, to each other, and to the earth.
Blending public health insight, cultural food history, and vivid storytelling, Suzette introduces her Food Indy FAMTM framework, which reconnects land, nourishment, and community well-being.
Audiences leave inspired to rethink the table as a place to eat together and as a place to rebuild wellness, belonging, and social connection.
Key Themes
🌱 Food as a response to burnout and modern disconnection
🌱 The role of shared meals in emotional and community health
🌱 Food justice and access to culturally meaningful foods
🌱 The Food Indy FAMTM framework: reconnecting land, food, and wellness
🌱 How food traditions support resilience and belonging
Participants will learn:
• Why shared meals are essential for emotional and social health
• How food culture shapes wellness and community resilience
• Simple ways to restore meaningful food rituals in everyday life
• Why food justice is central to building healthy communities
• How reconnecting with food traditions can combat burnout
About Suzette
Suzette Chaumette, MPH is a public health storyteller, food sovereignty advocate, and the creator of the Food Indy FAMTM (Food as Medicine), an approach that reconnects people to land, food culture, and community well-being.
With more than 25 years of experience in public health and health communication, Suzette’s work explores how food traditions shape health outcomes—from maternal wellness and chronic disease prevention to emotional resilience and social connection.
Through her talks, workshops, and The Food Indy Podcast, she invites audiences to reconsider food as more than nutrition: as a source of belonging, cultural identity, and community healing.
Suzette works with hospitals, universities, and community organizations to integrate food literacy, cultural food knowledge, and storytelling into health and wellness initiatives.
Her talks blend science, history, and vivid storytelling, leaving audiences inspired to reconnect with the simple but transformative act of coming back to the table.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Books Inc., 1344 Park Street, Alameda, United States
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