WHAT WE DO

Story Sharing Potluck Suppers: Community Plate’s signature event series! A statewide series of community potluck dinners that feature recipe and story sharing, with live storytelling performance and/or readings at the end of each supper. It’s dinner and a show! Community members bring food and a story to share, and receive story sharing prompts throughout the meal to facilitate conversations and connection. After each supper a mini community cookbook is created from the dishes shared, with each guest getting a copy of the cookbook. Story Sharing Suppers take place in both public and private spaces and settings. Contact us if your organization would be interested in co-hosting a Story Sharing Potluck Supper in your community.

Workshops: Community Plate supports the preservation and sharing of family recipes and food history through a series of workshops in storytelling, family- and community cookbook creation, food memoir writing.

Maine Community Cookbooks: Maine Community Cookbooks are now part of Community Plate! Cookbooks are still available to purchase at shops around Maine and at maine200cookbook.com. Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook is currently sold out, and we hope to have new copies available in 2024. Maine Community Cookbook, Vol. 2 is still widely available. $2 from each book sold will continue to be distributed to organizations fighting hunger in Maine. In 2025-26, we will begin to compile Maine Community Cookbook, Volume 3!

Cooking is Community Podcast: In 2023-24 we will begin to produce new episodes of the Cooking is Community podcast with a focus on community cookbooks and the communities that produce them. https://communitycookbook.com/