Lee Tran Lam is a freelance journalist based in Sydney/Eora. She’s written for various publications, including The Guardian, Gourmet Traveller, Good Food and Gastro Obscura. She hosts the Powerhouse Museum’s Culinary Archive podcast and created SBS’s award-winning show, Should You Really Eat That? A Sydney café once named a sandwich after her.
Of art and appetites
Artists have long been consumed with what we eat, seen appetites as a metaphor for nourishment and vulnerability. But as Lee Tran Lam finds out, the new wave of collaborations between the worlds of art and food signals a growing cultural desire to break down barriers—and forge new connections in unexpected ways.