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we exoticize food
for its flavor and how well you can do
it but
we're not there yet when it comes to
accepting that without movement of
people this would have never happened
generally in my work maps and mapping
and
doing that through collage especially is
very important i mean we're almost
collaging right here right
so
this is also giving you some kind of
information
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kitchen table is a
project that looks at food history the
movement of food making practices across
time
and over geography
and at the same time trying to find
artistic forms of
sharing
these histories with a general public
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so the project is really all about
migration the migration of food the
migration of people and plants and
and before we before borders were drawn
which was probably not such a long time
ago it's just that you know most of the
people who
like me or are listening probably
only were born with borders but before
that people moved all the time they
moved for different reasons and it
wasn't so hard to move and we don't also
think about the fact that food has moved
with birds for example
because they eat something and then they
go to i don't know where and poo
and then something grows over there and
so this this project is really
fundamentally at its core thinking and
looking at the movement of
people
and plants and and the recipes that they
took with them
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this ancient cookbook is called kitab
tabich
the book is around 9th 10th century
baghdad it's the first
complete
cookbook
and these cookbooks document what the
royal
kitchens were cooking they're huge
there's a lot going on there's always
banquets and festivals and whatever
so it seems that the
elite
population were interested to know what
was going on in the royal kitchens in
baghdad and so they began to commission
writers to document the best most famous
recipes they're very difficult to follow
so it took like two months for me to get
the courage to actually start cooking
from them because
it's not how i have ever seen a recipe
these recipes in these cookbooks become
a place to understand also what was
coming in through trade
particularly around like between central
asia and western europe i mean this is
mainly the area that i'm looking at
because it's the places
kind of where i've lived and have
traveled and
and and sort of understand and i'm
curious about
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about a year ago
i began research on zatar and zata is
the arabic word for this plant the
oregano plant but it is also the name of
a mixture a herbal mixture that we eat
in the eastern mediterranean so it's a
very popular food in the eastern
mediterranean the people are invited
into the room
and to first of all taste individual
seeds and herbs and spices and then
they're invited to make their own zatar
as it were i give them the
you know everything is set out and then
we slowly start to taste as i narrate a
story around you know the the plant its
histories its spiritual references its
uses where it grows what it likes to do
and all of the symbolism attached to it
because oregano is actually a very
almost a sacred plant it's a medicinal
plant and it's also everyday in the
supermarket so
and everybody likes their pizza with a
bit of an oregano on it so
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so during the performances
i slowly start to create
live
maps so i'm drawing it on a table and
actually you can see it projected quite
large while everyone is seated and
eating
these maps are bringing in the different
elements that i'm talking about and then
i draw
differ you know adding information on as
i go along and towards by the end of the
performance the image in some way tells
the story
of the meal
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i'm not sure kitchen table would have
had the same research questions if i was
not living in brussels and it's actually
one of the reasons why
i really like this city
it's the second most mixed city in the
world
and it also means that everyone's opened
up a little shop to get the stuff that
they need from back home
i love going into small shops it's like
my it's almost like um
a hobby i don't know if it's a hobby or
an obsession my kitchen's
i need a lot more space
the city
really does offer you
any
any
ingredient you're looking for if you
have the time and the patience
you're quite likely to find it
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if you're looking for one ingredient you
go to the shop in the shop and then the
shop owner tells you where they're from
and where they came and then you
unravel all of this
of the city
which
for me is beautiful because i think the
more mixed we are the better
for food that's totally true let's see
if we can push those boundaries on a
human level
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we exoticize food

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cookbook::noun | Spocien Dictionary

cookbook

noun

/'kʊk,bʊk/

a book of recipes and cooking directions

Type	Words
Synonyms	cookery book
Type of	book of facts, reference, reference book, reference work

How to pronounce cookbook in Dutch?

cookbook::noun | Spocien Dictionary

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