Queer Recipes Archive

Queer Recipes Archive is a workshop-performance that explores who defines the “traditional” version of a dish, and whose experiences its recipe leaves out. As a reimagined version is performed and prepared live, we trace how its ingredients and techniques have changed and acquired meaning through migration, labour, gender and power.

To queer a recipe is to question the instructions inherited from a recipe, letting our own bodies and appetites change what the dish can become. Participants do this in a double-layered zine, rewriting the recipe through their own memories and desires. Each version can become part of a growing archive of stories told through food.

Open to adults aged 18 and over, especially queer and trans folks, but anyone interested in the social and cultural dimensions of food and its possibilities for sensorial storytelling. No cooking or writing experience is needed. All materials are provided, and participants take their rewritten zines home.