Food embodies both nourishment and eroticism, creating symbolic ambiguities. Poetic language rethinks desire as an emancipatory force, enabling new intersectional connections. Our bodies coexist with trillions of gut microbes—raising questions about agency and co-evolution. In Japan, lateral gene transfer within the microbiome, linked to daily seaweed consumption, suggests microbes shape how we adapt and age. Seaweed’s slimy texture—captured by the Korean onomatopoeia micul micul—evokes the fluidity and precarity of our political and ecological present. Indigenous animist food cultures see nature as medicine and spirit. To “queer” nature is to embrace eco-sexuality and feminist critiques of commodification, positioning cooking as a site of resistance and knowledge. Cooking becomes a transformative gesture—sharing, preserving, and reimagining our relationships with food, nature, and each other. It holds symbolic power in the continuity of womanhood and the shaping of future narratives. Minder will present her installation Green Open Food Evolution at the upcoming ISEA exhibition in Seoul.