second life at the table, Moments
November 12, WPÜ SHINJUKU
second life at the table
Moments x Nourish
A conversation with Jorge Aguilar of Wasted
An overlooked ingredient.
A shared table.
Another way forward.
What might we discover in the ingredients we’re ready to throw away?
Wasted began around a dinner table in Copenhagen, turning surplus bread into pasta and bringing people together over a shared meal.
For this special Moments gathering, Jorge Aguilar joins us ahead of his appearance at Nourish for a closer conversation about food, imagination, and the pleasure of making something worth sharing.
We’ll explore how overlooked ingredients can become beginnings, how a dinner can become a community, and what changes when we give good food another chance.
Not a product presentation.
A conversation about looking again.
Pull up a chair.
Bring your curiosity.
What we’ll explore
A second life for ingredients
How attention, craft, and imagination can reveal possibility in what we have learned to overlook.
From one table to a community
How a shared meal can become the beginning of a culture, a company, and a wider movement.
Making something people genuinely want
Why impact becomes more powerful when pleasure, quality, and usefulness are not treated as compromises.
What food carries forward
The relationships, memories, and new ideas that begin when something is placed at the center of a table and shared.
Moments
Moments creates intimate encounters across the year, giving one practitioner, one question, or one place the attention it deserves.
Small in scale.
Generous in exchange.
This gathering offers time to listen more closely, ask questions, and follow an idea before it becomes a finished answer.
These conversations begin long before November and continue afterward across our constellations.
Attendance
Complimentary, with registration.
This welcoming is created for the semi permanent, WPÜ, and Ü Culture communities, together with friends joining us from Tokyo and beyond.
Space is limited.
A place around the hearth has been set aside for you.
Evening details
Doors open and gathering
November 13 at 18:30–21:00
Our languages
The evening will unfold in English.
About Wasted
Wasted is a Copenhagen-born food company giving surplus bread a second life as pasta.
Its work begins with a simple belief: good food belongs with people, not in landfills.
By bringing chefs, friends, and communities together around shared tables, Wasted explores how food waste can become an invitation to imagine differently.
Less waste.
More possibility.
Something worth sharing.
Continue at Nourish
This conversation continues at Nourish, where Jorge joins chefs, producers, farmers, fermenters, scientists, designers, researchers, and cultural thinkers exploring the future of food and hospitality.
Moments offers the closer conversation.
Nourish opens it into a wider room.
Each gathering requires separate registration or ticketing.
In conversation with
Jorge Aguilar / Wasted
Co-founder and chief marketing officer, Wasted
Jorge Aguilar is a creative and brand builder working across food, culture, and community.
As co-founder and chief marketing officer of Wasted, he is helping shape a Copenhagen-born food company that turns rescued bread into pasta, and uses the shared table as a place for connection, imagination, and change.
Wasted had a community before it had a product. What began as a dinner among friends has grown into gatherings, collaborations, and shared meals across cities and cultures.
Jorge’s work explores how an idea can move from message to material practice: from an overlooked ingredient to something people want to eat, share, and gather around.
Instagram · Wasted · Eat Wasted
Ana Arriola-Kanada
Host, Curator & Steward
Ana is a founder, builder, designer, and cultural orchestrator based in Tokyo.
As Chairwoman of 「 yes, 」 and steward of semi permanent, she builds long-horizon cultural infrastructure through Tokyo Salone and its constellations.
Her work brings designers, technologists, and cultural practitioners into shared dialogue, connecting culture, technology, and human systems. Her career includes leadership roles at Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Sony, and IDEO.
Chef Justin Khanna
Nourish Curator · Founder, Repertoire
Justin Khanna is a chef, creator, entrepreneur, and founder of Repertoire.
After training at The Culinary Institute of America, he spent nearly a decade in some of the world’s most demanding kitchens, including The French Laundry and Lysverket, where he ultimately served as Executive Sous Chef.
Today, his writing, podcasting, education, and advisory work help hospitality practitioners build stronger careers, healthier cultures, and more resilient systems.
Justin is part of the Tokyo Salone leadership team and serves as curator of Nourish, working alongside our advisory board to shape its voices, conversations, and evolving inquiry into food, hospitality, craft, and care.
For Moments / second life at the table, Justin joins Ana as co-host, bringing a practitioner’s perspective on craft, leadership, and the ways a shared meal can become the beginning of something larger.
Venue
WPÜ SHINJUKU
WPÜ SHINJUKU is a boutique hotel and cultural hub in the heart of Shinjuku, where people from different places and practices cross paths.
Across its lounge, gallery, café, gathering spaces, and Room 303 Radio, WPÜ offers more than somewhere to stay. It creates ways to encounter the culture and creative energy of Tokyo.
Throughout Tokyo Salone, WPÜ becomes our everyday living room.
Drop in. Meet someone new. Stay a little longer.
Some of the best conversations begin here.
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A place to arrive.
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