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What is a recipe and how do we share one? Looking at different approaches to recipes from video recordings and oral storytelling to handwritten notes, we explored how we share recipes and how, in turn, we learn to cook.
More than a set of instructions a recipe can present a call to action, the promise of an imagined future, a memory and a story of a particular time and place. Looking at recipes by artists including Jasleen Kaur and Sneha Solanki, we discussed the ways a recipe can also tell the story of migration, with adaptations to the ingredients changing in line with what was available in different countries.
Considering gathering recipes together to share in the Dining Room, we discussed what the most important aspects of a recipe should contain from the need to build in options to change and adapt the given ingredients to what people have at hand to the importance of affordability and practicality and cooking for one, cooking for a family, and batch cooking, building in leftovers to ensure your energy is spent on more than one meal, and the importance of sharing different cultural cuisines in an accessible and approachable way.