03 Roots to Routes × Palette Kiosk Riga
September 2022, Riga
in collaboration with Daria Melnikova
Creative Direction
Food production
Curation Roots to Routes
An afternoon of a cooking session organized by Roots to Routes in Palette Kiosk Riga.
The gastronomic intervention ‘Greeting the Autumn’ takes a stance from a book ‘How to Cook a Wolf’ by M. F. K. Fisher, which was published in 1942 when food supplies were at their worst and so the recipes were meant to encourage people daunted by wartime shortages. Although eighty years have passed since the book was first published, the need to reconsider our everyday consumption habits has not ceased to exist.
With the recent shortage of essential food ingredients and increasing prices of everyday life, the performative cooking praises ways to nourish souls with limited resources, particularly when income and other supplies are scarce. It encourages people to experiment and invent adventurous meals from just the depths of their cupboards. Most importantly, the event wishes to savour the pleasures of simple everyday cuisine while proposing ways to stay inventive and cherish seasonal ingredients.
Taking place in the communal Gardens of Sporta Pils in Riga, the performative cooking questions also the many possible ways to engage a community and encourage people to act collectively. It embraces the idea that everyday and essential food could be grown in the midst of a lush urban meadow often with limited resources at hand.