Climate Cheesecake

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Climate change is depressing and it’s honestly a lot to take in. What do global climate declarations and supply chain disruptions actually mean to the average person on the ground? Here at Climate Cheesecake, we try to break down these global, regional and local happenings into more manageable slices - so it’s not so overwhelming (not so jelat lah). Climate Cheesecake is brought to you by the Cheesecake Collective, and powered by Artwave Studio.

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S2.7 Your Stomach Wants a Random Wild Weed

Feb 28 2024 22 mins

Hear from Nithiya Laila about using food as a medium to discuss the topics of heritage and culture. As a culinary anthropologist, she sees food as aspiration, identity and overcoming prejudices.

S2.6 Rice to Meet You

Feb 07 2024 19 mins

During the pandemic lockdown in 2020, some of us baked bread, other made Dalgona coffee, and Hao Pei started guerilla growing rice varieties on a terrace. In this episode, Hao Pei reveals the origin story of 飯醉集團 Secret (Rice) Society - a guerilla rice garden to save and share native rice varieties and vernacular growing knowledge located on a rooftop in Toa Payoh. He share

S2.5 Digging Deeper

Jan 17 2024 26 mins

In this episode, Aditi unpacks the language that come to shape our perception of soil and shares how Living Soil Asia aims to build and renew our connection to soil through its education programmes. Likening soil to a sourdough starter, Aditi reveals how the life that exist within our soil, or soil microbiology, forms the basis of a healthy food system. Han Jing also discusses the

S2.4 Home on the Range

Dec 28 2023 20 mins

Many of us are unaware that behind the old ORTO site lies Ground-Up Initiate (GUI) - a 2.6ha nature-inspired educational farm and woodworking craft arm. GUI will have to relocate by the end of 2023 as the current land is slated for new housing developments. Unlike the fate of other farms, GUI has secured a new site in the heartlands of Khatib, right behind NS HomeTeam Khatib. Bingy

S2.3 It's not a Bug (It's a Feature)

Dec 05 2023 19 mins

In this episode, we chat with Foo Mao Sheng, an Entomologist from the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (NUS). He shares with us how he got started with eating edible insects after trying his first bamboo worm from Thailand as a protein replacement, as well as the history of entomophagy. Join our hosts Movin and Sankar as they try silkworm pupae, grasshoppers, crickets and supe

S2.2 Garden Gastronomy

Nov 15 2023 19 mins

In this episode, Rachel Wong shares her journey starting and writing about agriculture and the food system at Cong and Co. Growing up with her grandmother who cooks sparked her curiosity towards how food is prepared and the broader socio-economic forces that shape and determine the food we choose to put on our plates, as well as what is considered palatable. Rachel also discus

S2.1 Where’d All the Thyme Go

Oct 24 2023 17 mins

“I never thought I’d be a farmer.” In this episode, Evelyn Eng-Lim reflects on her origin story of volunteering with Nature Society before she found herself at the crossroads of owning a plot of land to reclaim autonomy of the food and produce she consumes and eventually, building a food forest at the heart of Lim Chu Kang. She highlights the importance of people and communit

Season 2 Trailer

The cheesecakes are back - with guests! This season delves into food and the communities in our backyard. Who plays a role in Singapore’s food story, and who gets to shape our food future? Stay tuned as we launch this 8-episode season, and follow us on Instagram @climatecheesecake.

S1.10 Climate Jialat

Jan 05 2023 38 mins

In the final episode of the season, the Climate Cheesecake spoke at the Waves of Change Festival 2022 at ArtScience Museum. They share personal experiences with climate anxiety, and some of the ways they cope with it. Recorded in front of an audience in Singapore on 9 October 2022, with postscripts.

S1.9 Lelong Lelong Carbon Market

Nov 29 2022 23 mins