Women and The Table They Set
What happens when we stop asking whether women can cook, and begin asking how they turn the ancient fire of the kitchen into fuel for their own lives?
Over 365 days and 28,936 miles, Jade travelled across France, Denmark, England, Italy, and Spain to meet twelve women in their homes. Through meals, photographs, and intimate conversations, she encountered a violinist running a dairy farm, a Champagne producer, a Christmas-tree farmer, a food-knitting artist, a marchioness, and other women shaping lives on their own terms.
Women and The Table They Set is a collection of portraits about food, but never only food. At the table, its subjects speak about work, love, family, reinvention, loss, ambition, and the daily practices through which a person becomes more fully herself.
Part travel writing, part visual storytelling, and part cultural portraiture, the book asks how domestic life can become a place of dignity, imagination, and change.
A photograph from the journey, “Grandpa David’s Birthday Tea Party,” was shortlisted in the Food for the Family category of the World Food Photography Awards in London, extending the book’s attention from the table to the visual rituals of family life.
01 / THE WOMAN
Twelve women showed how a life can be remade through small, repeated acts of courage: creating, caring, earning, leaving, returning, and beginning again.
02 / THE KITCHEN
In this kitchen, food is not a woman’s duty but a shared language. Preparing a meal together becomes a small, everyday rehearsal for a more equal life.
03 / THE REALIZATION
A marchioness chooses a life beyond expectation: trading the castle for the stable, and inherited status for the freedom to live close to the land and serve her community.
Photography by Jade Chia-Yu Tsai, from Women and The Table They Set.
True Colors of Yosifu—A Journey in Artistic Expression
True Colors of Yosifu—A Journey in Artistic Expression traces the formative years of Yosifu Kacaw, an Amis artist whose vivid palette holds the joy, histories, and lived realities of Taiwan’s Indigenous communities.
His public practice can be encountered across three distinct terrains: the city, the body, and the land.
The City: His figures appeared on the exterior of a Taiwan-themed New York subway train, where their bright smiles and ancestral-eye motifs carried Indigenous presence into the daily movement of the city.
The Body: In Can’t Speak, an Amis woman raises a finger to her lips, confronting the historical silencing of Indigenous language.
The Land: In Gifts from the Mountain, a monumental rice-paddy artwork seen from above, mountains, fruit, mineral forms, and the sun evoke the land’s abundance, protection, and life force.
Rather than a conventional biography, the book is a close portrait of an artist in becoming. Through color, Yosifu reflects on Taiwan’s long struggle for dignity and human rights, while making Indigenous life visible on its own terms. Jade’s multisensory perspective attends to place, texture, sound, and the social worlds behind his palette.
Recognized as a Recommended Publication by Taiwan’s Golden Tripod Awards, the book is a study of artistic becoming—and of the courage to make culture visible.
01 / THE CITY
Yosifu’s figures carry Indigenous color and ancestral symbols into New York’s daily movement.
02 / THE BODY
Can’t Speak gives form to the historical silencing of Indigenous language.
03 / THE LAND
Gifts from the Mountain turns a rice field into a landscape of protection, abundance, and life.
Artwork by Yosifu Kacaw. Photographs used with permission.