Food from the Sea | Comida del Mar

For You and Me | Para Tí y Para Mí

Food from the Sea invites mothers and daughters from diverse coastal communities to share their traditional, homemade seafood dishes with one another as a delicious approach to peer-to-peer learning and cross-cultural knowledge exchange through culinary diplomacy, motivating families to eat creatively with the entire fish in mind.

Women from small-scale fishing villages in Peru, ancestral fishing towns in Greece, or coastal cities like San Diego, California, and metropolises like Mumbai, India, trade authentic recipes that utilize traditional, locally-sourced marine species. This is an opportunity to incorporate historical memory of family seafood recipes and reflect on shifts in species availability due to anthropogenic impacts on the nearshore marine environment.

Food from the Sea partners women together as culinary pen-pals. With our logistical support, participants are invited to connect virtually and share their experience cooking one another’s recipes, securing available ingredients, and listening to their families’ feedback at the dinner table.

Meet the women, read their stories, and try their recipes!

 Food from the Sea | Comida del Mar is an effort envisioned and initiated jointly between Coast 2 Coast Movement and Pelagic Projects, and launched as part of Phase 1 of the Fishful Future Initiative.