Food is more than fuel. It is deeply relational - connecting us to our environment, our communities, and even to the unseen worlds within us. The simple act of eating ties us to the soil, to the hands that grew and prepared our food, and to the histories and traditions carried in each meal. Yet, modern medicine often isolates nutrition as a biochemical equation, reducing food to calories and macronutrients, stripping away its social, cultural, and ecological dimensions.

It started with a conversation. No, several conversations. Around kitchen tables, in the corridors of clinics, at the edges- of streets, of parks, woodlands, heathlands and on the shores of rivers. Conversations between people who care- about health, about healing, and not just for individuals, but for communities, ecosystems, and the world beyond human reach.

Sage Elders: an imaginary interview with Professor Abraham Verghese.

Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, is Professor and Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor, and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. He is also a best-selling author and a physician with a reputation for his focus on healing in an era where technology often overwhelms the human side of medicine.