We ramen, I wanna ramen with you. We ramen, I hope you like ramen, too.
A Friday evening back in December, I was jammin’ – see what I did there! – at Somers Town community centre, north London, the venue for vegan ramen community cooking class with Yoshi Sato, hosted by Life after Hummus (lifeafterhummus.com). Life after Hummus is a black minority ethnic (BME) led non-profit, social enterprise, which was founded in 2016, offering a mix of free and low-cost, plant-based cookery classes. They operate within an intersectional framework, meaning that they seek to teach healthy, nutritious recipes, and improve culinary skills to all, irrespective of gender, race and social position. Their motto is ‘health is a right and not a privilege’. During the evening, team leader, Farrah Rainfly, described intersectionality as treating one another with ‘human kindness’. Asking that we worked together in small groups, some of us with people we’d never met before, sharing the cooking and cleaning before sitting down to eat our meal with one another. I joined a table, forming a small group of five of us.