The illustrated and sonic cookbook of food as means of resistance

by David Velez

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1.	Potato and Beet Greens with Chicken and Rice 05:35	info	buy track
2.	Chicken Burger with Salad 07:15	info	buy track
3.	Breaded Jack Mack 06:49	info	buy track
4.	Combinado 09:22	info	buy track
5.	Palestinan Hummus 02:57	info	buy track
6.	Kousa Mahsh 10:29	info	buy track

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This cookbook presents a series of food recipes prepared and consumed in circumstances of adversity, hardship and precarity around the world. From prisons in the US to vulnerable communities in Bogota, Colombia, these dishes provide comfort to individuals and communities resisting struggle, dependency, violence, detrimental social policies and unfair working conditions. For this book, I cooked the selected recipes myself, photographed the process and recorded its sounds. I used photos to draw a series of illustrations and edited the recordings. The audios feature sounds of every step of the preparation of all the recipes. Additionally, I present a text about Joseph Beuys and his interest in the politics and poetics of food that includes one of his cookbooks/pieces.

The sounds, illustrations and recipes presented in this book aim to connect the readers with the circumstances of resistance and adversity in which they were cooked. Cooking and eating in this book are presented as actions of alterity and otherness in which the spectator can expand its kitchen and table in poetic demonstrations of solidarity with the resistance of the vulnerable and unprivileged against adversity.

This is a project funded by The Making Space in Huddersfield and produced by Habitat Sonoro

Special thanks to Andrew Wilson for his support with this project.

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released November 13, 2021

Concept and research: David Vélez
Sound recording and editing: David Vélez
Illustrations: David Vélez
Cooking: David Vélez and Lina Velandia

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