Creative Time approached Douglas Paulson and I to pull together a project to go with a lunch for the Creative Time Summit. The Summit is a conference on the intersection of art and social justice, and folks come from all over the country to attend. It was going to take place at a public high school in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn over the course of a weekend. Douglas and I wanted to find a way to bring the voice of students and neighborhood residents into the the lunchroom for the weekend. We visited dozens of the local long-standing West Indian and soul food restaurants and asked chefs and owners what "soul food" and "power lunches" meant to them. We also interviewed public high school students from the neighborhood’s Nelson Mandela School for Social Justice, and developed sculptures using body-part drawings and cast-off cafeteria food boxes. Douglas and I chose a menu for the conference attendees based on our conversations with students and local restaurants. We created a menu/booklet telling the stories we heard about the dishes we chose.