'Serve immediately’, these instructions end, but who to? Even a thousand recipes don’t make a meal.' - Thom Eagle, First, Catch (2016)

What sits within a recipe? What sits outside of it? Who decides? This workshop looks into the possibilities of the recipe format and its potential for storytelling, delving into the metaphorical values of food and its surrounding processes, elements, stories and contexts. If food is a language, how and where do we speak it? What are the gestures involved in cooking, feeding, eating; growing, harvesting, sharing? How can textures, colours, flavours and smells communicate ideas, feelings or visual impressions—and vice-versa?

In this session, participants had the chance to discuss the making of a recipe, unveiling its potential for imagination, creativity and thinking beyond instructions. Together, we deconstructed recipes, making use of their structure to write sensorially about food, memory and personal experience.

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