Nomi Toirkens


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↗ Social designer, food enthusiast, bitter reclaimer and researcher working at the intersection of food, ecology, and social practices. My work explores how sensory experiences (especially taste) can reconnect us to what has been bred out, forgotten, or overlooked. Through foraging, craft and collaboration I create tools, tastings and narratives to invite new ways of relating to food, the natural world and lost knowledge.

Forage Four: Quartet of a Lost Taste

Feb 20 2025

This quartet game reintroduces bitterness through foraged plants of Europe. Each card presents a plant’s flavor profile, traditional uses, bitter compounds, and the taste receptors it activates. Grouped into families of bitterness, the sets invite players to learn and playfully reconnect with a forgotten taste.

playful learning, wild plant knowledge, bitter plants, taste receptors, lost taste





Last updated: August 17, 2025 © Nomi Toirkens