You don’t want to miss today’s episode–mainly because Wendy and Elizabeth reveal their reigning favorite salt! How’d we get there? Because Elizabeth shares how she guides her students through a mindful salt tasting–an exercise that embodies her research at the intersection of food and performance. A PhD candidate at UCLA in Theater and Performance Studies with a graduate certificate in Food Studies, Elizabeth discusses how she approaches food experiences and food justice through an artistic research lens.


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Elizabeth Schiffler is a PhD candidate at UCLA in Theater and Performance Studies, with a graduate certificate in Food Studies. She is a part-time faculty member in Food Studies at The New School. Her work focuses on contemporary performance that uses food in and as performance, entangled with human, nonhuman, and ecological scales. She is the 2022 recipient of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Fellowship at UCLA, and a Global Food Initiative Fellow with University of California Office of the President. She has contributed to Theatre Journal, Food, Culture & Society, and the Graduate Journal for Food Studies.