The Soup Séance
Words: LeAnna Bussey and Anna Glass
Photos: Pam Blankvoort
LeAnna Bussey
Anna Glass
Anna Glass created a dinner series called The Blue Kitchen Dinner in Delft, The Netherlands. In the October 2025 edition, LeAnna Bussey was a collaborator and guest chef. The two food designers created a dinner called The Soup Séance to welcome the season of Autumn. Anna transformed the space by thinking about movements, textures, and interactions. She brought guests together as if they were all ingredients and her apartment was one big soup pot. LeAnna reimagined the possibilities of flavors and how a dish can evolve through an eating experience.
They celebrated the changing season by gathering around an interactive table with a six-course soup tasting menu. Guests explored how differently shaped spoons affirmed their identity and also changed the soup-eating experience. This dinner conjured up conversations, melded new communities together, and, like soup, the hosts and guests evolved from individuals into a collective energy by the end of the night.
Spoons
Cocktail hour before dinner
A spiced coffee rim, ginger carrot coconut cream velouté
Anna and LeAnna
Between soup courses, a Chinese long bean interlude
Chinese long beans with crispy shallots
Choosing a spoon a.k.a choosing your personality
Cocktail hour
Cocktail hour continued
Coffee-spiced rim, carrot soup
Hanging seasonal ingredients
LeAnna serving
Long bean with shallots
Melting spheres, turmeric, and miso, to transform the flavor of the soup
Preparing the long bean
Seasonal vegetable hanging decorations
Semolina pie crust spoons
Soup topping were placed around the table
A sneak peek of Anna's vast spoon collection
Tablescape
The Blue Kitchen Dinner Table
Turmeric melting sphere in coconut soup
Zaatar eggplant, lentil, chickpea stew
Zatar, eggplant, lentil, chickpea stew with lemon yoghurt swirl
LeAnna Bussey is a chef, artist, and food designer based in Milan, Italy, originally from South Carolina, USA. With over a decade in hospitality, she combines her culinary expertise with design thinking to reimagine how we interact with food and the impact of our eating habits. Through her brand, LeAnna Kaitlyn Food Design, she takes a multidisciplinary approach to eating, creating interactive edible art exhibitions, sensorial experiences, experimental menus, community initiatives, and tableware design. Her work explores nostalgia, sustainability, our relationship with food, and how we connect with each other. Her work can be found at LeAnna Kaitlyn Food Design
Anna Glass is a multidisciplinary creative and freelance designer, originally from Atlanta, Georgia, and currently residing in Delft, the Netherlands. Anna creates spaces and experiences that bring people together to spark joy and curiosity. Blending cultural research with crafted objects, the goal of her work is to connect, using senses, stories, and experience. Her work can be found at AOGLASS