I'm accepting submissions for my new "anarchists cookbook" collection of recipes (a better title forthcoming). I would love to get your recipes and your thoughts on their relationship to governance!
This is a continuation of a piece I created last year titled "These cookies are, like, tha bomb." examining chocolate chip cookies and nuclear weaponry as the primary American intellectual exports of WWII.
Please email me if you're intrigued! (Submissions accepted through August 30th 2009)
NOTE: and by recipes, i mean for eating. Not for blowing shit up and picking locks. There's already an anarchist cookbook filled with all that stuff.
Still wondering what the hell I'm talking about?
Here are some thoughts that got me to this point.
- Food as a unique fetish object and delivery mechanism for an idea about the world.
- Foods you prepare for a specific task (ex: a meal you like cook for collaborators while working with a group - and any thoughts you have about why that meal is reflective of group.)
- Food/recipes with a unique history.
- Food as a socio-political weapon.
- Food used in torture.
- Food used as embargo.
- How does a certain food resonate in our collective memory? ex: Apple Pie
- Military MRE recipes/preparation methods.
- Bio-engineered foods. Good/Evil/Neither?
- A friend of mine Deb and I had a great little email exchange about the religious symbology of "Hot Cross Buns". She whipped up a tasty looking batch of Anarchy Cross Buns that combine the classic hot cross bun with the and the Anarchist Black Cross.
