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Freudian Bites Podcast
Freudian Bites is a podcast that invites you into the intimate conversations behind a unique supper club series where art, food, and psychoanalysis meet. Created by curator Huma Kabakcı, Freudian Bites began as a series of small, carefully curated dinners bringing together artists, chefs, and thinkers around a shared table. Each gathering explored how creativity, memory, taste and intimacy unfold through food and conversation. In this podcast, Huma sits down with the collaborators who shaped those evenings. Together they reflect on the ideas, stories, and emotional undercurrents behind each gathering, exploring the relationship between art and food, the power of shared meals, and the subtle Freudian slips that reveal deeper connections.
Each episode ends by sharing a single recipe from the table, offering a tangible way to bring the Freudian Bites experience into your own kitchen. Listen in to discover how food can become a language for storytelling, connection, and care. The first season of this podcast series is generously supported by the Eden Arts Foundation. More information on the project can be found on: https://humakabakci.com/freudian-bites/
Music by Colin McGinness.
Freudian Bites Podcast
Episode 2 with Emma Witter & Kawther Luay
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A year on from the second iteration of Freudian Bites, this episode feels like a natural place to pause and look back. Through conversation, we revisited the evening that brought artist Emma Witter and artist-chef Kawther Luay together around one table, where sculpture, food, and people met in ways that stayed with us long after. The podcast becomes its own kind of reflection, a chance to trace what that night left behind.
We spoke about memory and conviviality, and what happens when people gather around one table. How texture, scent, and taste shape experience. How smell can hold memory more powerfully than words. The dinner became not just an event, but a shared ritual.
Emma reflected on tactility and the act of drawing, on shaping materials by hand and working intuitively with matter that has already lived another life. Her sculptures invite touch and closeness. We discussed how making can feel like remembering, and how the hand often understands before language does.
Kawther spoke about food as a site of belonging, and hospitality as both care and conversation. Sharing a meal creates a temporary space of openness where vulnerability and curiosity can coexist.
Together, we revisited an evening where sculpture met sustenance, and where gathering itself became the artwork.
We are grateful to Eden Arts Foundation for supporting the Freudian Bites podcast and helping us continue these conversations at the intersection of art, food, and care.
More more information on past Freudian Bites supper clubs, you can click here.
