Kitchen Talks

Collective cooking in the garden

01.06.25 - 31.12.25

For free

For 16 year-olds and older

in Spanish/in English

The kitchen is the place that connects us with the soil, with the plants that give us health, with the bacteria that live in our guts, with the hands that work it and with the people who have stewarded the seeds and knowledge over thousands of years. The kitchen is a place to build and nurture good relationships.

It creates community and conviviality, provides memories and relationships with other geographies, and a multiplicity of origins. It is the place where we satisfy our hunger and it is a place of care, mostly given by women, but so often unappreciated and invisible. It is a place where we come together and talk to each other in a trusting way. At the same time, our kitchens and our food are often intertwined by relations to colonialism, land grabbing, the destruction of biodiversity and extreme forms of exploitation of both humans and nature.

In the Kitchen Talks series, we will address these multitude of connections. In the community kitchen in the Spore Garden, we want to cook together and exchange ideas about how we are connected to different ways of inhabiting this world through cooking and our stomachs. There will be a community cooking session at Spore and another community cooking session at another location in the Global South and we will look for forms of connection these places and realities.