Contained in a recipe is a treasure of knowledge. Look deep enough and a dish tells you what’s available and what’s scarce for the cook, what’s important to them to show off- their medicine, religion, politics, history, economics. It’s all in the food that’s served to you. In short, a recipe is a letter from the chef connecting you to them in the most intimate, human, life-giving way.
A Letter from the Chef seeks to bring to light the stories presented by recipes and food traditions. We’ll dive into specific dishes and traditions to better understand the elements that created them to better learn about one another. We’ll aim to release a new episode during the season every two weeks.
Perhaps there is a longing for times past found in the foods we eat. A reminder of what has transpired and made our lives possible. A story that not even historians can seem to validate, but that is so clear because of the mere existence of the dishes we eat. As if a glory from the distant past comes to the present moment as our teeth sink into every bite and each morsel fills our bodies with tangible pride that we might not even fully understand.
30 Sept 2019
Home Coming
How do restriction and abundance interplay? What can we learn about a person through the restrictions they live their life with? Often, in restriction we can find freedom and a sense of home. In this episode, we explore how both fasting and feasting represent abundance.
9 Jul 2019
Snake Bread
A dish can help us remember - a person, a moment, a tradition. As the world change and as we change, food can also help us take forward what we want to keep while leaving behind what we don't connect with anymore. In this episode, we'll explore how the values safeguarded in a recipe can help us stay true to ourselves as we develop in our own life journeys.
17 Jun 2019
Home Made
What is a home? And what foods bring us there? In this episode, we're going to explore what it means to have your own culture, your own home and your own family expressed through the lens of food.
3 Jun 2019
Cookie Crumbs
Who needs genetic testing when you have cookies?
20 May 2019
Death Cake
How can we understand, interpret and change the way death affects us? Can a cake show us how to turn the bad taste of a loved one's passing into a very different flavor?
29 Apr 2019
Winter Heat
Explore how food not only comes from a place, but can become that place itself. When a homeland is no longer in reach, we'll understand how any new home become a people's homeland.
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