Food as Connection: A Gastrodiplomacy for the People Dinner
May 28, 2026
5-7PM
Location TBA
New York, NY
Food is one of the most powerful forms of diplomacy.
The Gastrodiplomacy Dinner Series
Gathering around a dinner table to share delicious, nutritious food from across the globe is one of the most powerful forms of international relations. Often, we learn more from the stories told around a shared table than from textbooks or lectures that take place in the world’s greatest classrooms.
GDFP DINNER SERIES 002
Food
as Connection
5/28/26 • NEW YORK, NY
At a time when the world feels rife with disconnection, we need more than ever to remind ourselves of how we are connected—to the world around us, to one another, and with ourselves.
At our inaugural event in New York, we are connecting a very special group of our favorite people from all walks of life together. Centered around an early dinner table prepared exclusively by our founder Chef Pierre Thiam, we will be embellishing the room with flavors, aromas, and stories of connections through food that you have never heard of before. Whether you are a farmer or a foodie; whether you veer on the side of tradition or innovation; whether you stand on this or that side of whatever debate might be going on in your community; we will have something to bring us all together.
This dinner is a fundraising event designed to support Gastrodiplomacy’s work supporting healthy eating and food education in communities across America and the rest of the world. We will be experientially introducing some core ideas that our nonprofit is centered around—in hopes that you will come along on this journey with us as a friend, supporter, and collaborator.Even if you can’t make it to this event, please consider making a donation to our organization so we can continue to do the great work of nourishing our communities. This is a direct-to-impact model with no complex middle people or major infrastructure to support—just a small family-like team of volunteers committed to the cause.
“A good food system is not one that feeds people cheaply. It is one that feeds people right. With dignity. With culture. With connection. When we reconnect land to people, people to culture, and systems to communities…We build resilience. We build equity. We build the future of food.”
— Pierre Thiam