The Food Junctions Cookbook is supported by UCL under the Beacons for Public Engagement programme - funded by the UK Funding Councils, Research Councils UK and the Wellcome Trust - and also by the UCL Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities and by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). the food junctions cookbook living recipes for social innovation First published as the Food Junctions Cookbook in 2011 by Marina Chang and Lukas Meusburger University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 ©©Editorial matter & selection, Marina Chang and Lukas Meusburger, 2011, Some Rights Reserved ©©Individual contributions, the contributors (see individual articles), 2011, Some Rights Reserved Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCom- mercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence. 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Design and drawing: Chris Lemmens - twisted carpet Printed and bound by Calverts Co-operative Free PDF download at www.food-junctions.org.uk the food junctions cookbook living recipes for social innovation edited by marina chang lukas meusburger Contents Acknowledgements Eight Treasure pudding Dr. Vivienne Lo Picture credits Financialised food Foreword: The complex wonder of food Christine Haigh Professor Michael Worton Focusing on screwpines Introduction Shuen-Yi Long Marina Chang Food directions Dræyk van der Hørn Recipes: Food sovereignty 5-A-GREEN Michelle Springfeld and Graciela Sandhya Kaffo Romero Vasquez Allotment soups Food, fun and a life well lived Dr. Robert Biel Professor Matthew Gandy An edible architecture Food: the ‘new’ art in cities? Richard Beckett Regan Koch Baghali polo makes me happy Foodcycling Minoosh Seif Lara Glass Banana bread From tea to Tao Dr. Kaori O’Connor Shun Long A bannock-eye view of history Fruit carving Laura Ishiguro Sumalee Murphy Catherine’s cherry kisses Global Generation change Karen Rumsey Jane Riddiford Cautious, competent, confdent Good food for everyone forever Samantha Bilton Colin Tudge Certifcation overload Growing a healthy revolution Sarah Goler Anthony Stonehouse City vines Growing a multicultural community Richard Sharp garden – Mila Compoy Coronation chicken Growing Communities Dr. Claire Dwyer Michael Roberts Jr. Creating compassion Harvesting fruit in the city Marleen Slingenbergh Michael Stuart Digger barley Himalayan meals Hannah Roberson Professor Anthony Costello Does it have to be this way? Hot stuff! Ruchi Tripathi Nick Hayes Eating cats Jam for social networking Mark Carnall Dr. Rebecca Litchfeld Education with pesto Kilburn station planters Sarah Moore Sanchia Dunn Making universities into better Silent food neighbours – Dr. Hilary Jackson and Dr. Adeline Tay Dr. Gemma Moore Silkworms and mulberry Mapping local food for change Phil Paulo Chris Church Spice Caravan Matters of taste Spice Caravan catering co-op Sanna Hirvonen Spreading cocoa love Milk drinking and evolution Petra Barran Professor Mark G Thomas Stirring up a storm of healthy habits Milkshake exclusif Dr. Kate Evans, Charlene Shoneye, Dr. Sam Bompas Laura McGowan and Susanne Meisel More than stuffed dormice Stolen honey Dr. Debbie Challis Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum Mulberry ice Student potential energy Andy Hulme Christabel Buchannan Mulligatawny soup and “authentic” Sustainable society cake curry – Divya Narayanan Simon Goldsmith New dishes on the table Taewa Maori Clayton Chiang Stephen FitzHerbert New Garden City movement Tasting wine Philip Ross Professor Kathleen Burk One hundred sixty eight venison pasties There are no bad foods Sarah Ann Milne Professor David A Bender Organiclea This is a performance after all Khadija Gitay Vipul Sangoi and Anusha Poetry menu Subramanyam Simon Barraclough Towards a co-operative society Queen’s Market curry Dr. Mary Hilson Freek Janssens Urban food and sustainable cities Quite nicely Dr. Ian Scott Christopher Benstead Urban rural linkage Reclaiming land Ailbhe Gerrard Dr. Ian Fitzpatrick Woolton Pie Reclaiming waste Dr. Richard Farmer Sara Wingate Gray Word of mouth Rediscovering the sacred Professor Ian Needleman Susie Weldon Rethinking your vegetables Epilogue Lesley Acton Lukas Meusburger Save the pookato John Braime Acknowledgements Throughout this journey we have been We are grateful to the UCL Public supported by many people without Engagement Unit - Steve Cross, Hilary whose help and advice this project Jackson and Gemma Moore - for sup- would not have been possible. We would porting a group of students at all levels like to express our gratitude to all of and enabling us to run large projects those involved in this journey, whose like ours. Their panel not only fnanced willingness to share their experiences, Food Junctions and Foodpaths and the stories, wisdom and insights helped major part of this Cookbook, but the develop this Cookbook. team also helped us solve many prob- lems along the way. Helpful sums were We were never alone, optimism and also contributed by a grant from the enthusiasm coming from working with UCL Grand Challenge of Sustainable our core team members at Food Junc- Cities and the Engineering and Physical tions: Regan Koch, Julian Cox, Shuen-Yi Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Long, Stephanie Mills, Lucy Natarajan, Few could hope for a better place to Ailbhe Gerrard and Sharon Tan – thank gain such enormous institutional sup- you very much for getting the project port than UCL, and thanks are due to started in the frst place. Thanks also go all there, particularly Michael Worton, to Daniel Fitzpatrick, Michael Stuart and Sally MacDonald, Ian Scott, Clare Ryan, Karol Yanez at Foodpaths who helped Robert Eagle, Rachel Lister and John continue this challenging but always Braime. joyful journey. ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’. Front Quad, UCL Mahatma Gandhi the food junctions cookbook I 6 We would like to extend our thanks to fulfl our goal of making these seventy- Phil Paulo at Camley Street Natural three very different contributions look Park and Louise Gates at the Calthorpe like part of a whole while also keeping Project for letting us experiment with their own voices and remaining faithful our ideas and use their venues for the to what the author meant and intended. Food Junctions and Foodpaths events Special thanks go to the two graphic respectively. They, along with many designers – Adriana Molina and Chris other community groups and individu- Lemmens – for Food Junctions and als, have taught us that there are lots of Foodpaths events and this Cookbook, recipes for good and exciting university respectively. They proved themselves and community collaborations but the true collaborators and good friends. ingredients must always include empa- Thanks to Lesley Acton, Regan Koch, thy and kindness. We need a vision and Hilary Jackson, Michael Kieber, Mi- the big picture as well as attention to chael Stuart and Lucy Natarajan for detail and hard work. Fun and food are proofreading some of the articles, Sara defnitely useful. We have also learnt Wingate Gray for teaching us much that accepting that we are all different about copyright, Felix Gonzales, Steph- while at the same time focusing on our anie Thieullent and Kim Walker for common interests is a good start. taking photos and videos of the events, Sion Whellens for printing advice and Our heartfelt thanks go to the contribu- Johannes Klotz for taking the picture of tors of this collection who took time to us, printed on the back cover. write essays based on faith that this book would really happen, and whose Deepest thanks to Kaori O’Connor for wonderful pieces made the work of mentorship, support and encourage- putting this Cookbook together truly ment – and who always knew that there enjoyable. Thanks for bearing with our would be a book. She spent a great deal many queries and not being annoyed of time editing, proofreading and giving by our chasing up questions about the us all sorts of professional guidance. article, image or copyright forms, even She came to our rescue through her after midnight sometimes. Thanks to subtle knowledge and detailed atten- Harry West for supporting our events tion with far more kindness than we and his beautiful ‘mistake’ of forward- deserved. Without her being on our side ing our invitation to him to contribute from the outset, this book would never a piece to the entire SOAS Food Stud- have been completed. ies Centre mailing list. As a result, we received a number of contributions from From Marina: At UCL, I consider myself this network. very lucky to be part of such a stimulat- ing learning environment. I must single Thanks to Ian Fitzpatrick, who helped us out a number of academic staff who set the food junctions cookbook I 7 me on the right path. These include: From Lukas: A big thank you goes to my Robert Biel, my PhD supervisor, for the family for their support in literally eve- concepts of commons, grassroots mo- rything I do: Ruth, Leo and Pia Meus- bilisation, our relationship with nature burger. Even though she does not want and the power of food; Caren Levy for to be mentioned here, I am also grate- strategic action planning and institu- ful for Moriyamo Olusoga’s good ideas tionalisation; Yves Cabannes for food and her not being shy about expressing sovereignty and participatory budget- her critical opinions. Without friends, ing; Matthew Gandy for urban theories; doing something like this book would Michael Edwards for his pioneering be equally impossible and – out of many work on university-community engage- – I would like to give special thanks to ment; Jane Rendell for critical spatial Michael Kieber and Pascal Grosskopff practice and the notions of social sculp- for, among other things, letting me ture and a living artist; Muki Haklay sleep very little during the last Food for co-production of knowledge; Kevin Junctions weekend. Thanks also to sup- Morgan for politics of care; Tim Lang portive fatmates Joakim Ivarson and for food democracy and Robin Murray Joshua Eichler-Summers for proofread- for social innovation. I would also like ing and general cheering up and Marta to thank Rita Valencia for showing me Pyrzyk for giving out Food Junctions that politics and spirituality are equally fyers in the UCL Quad even though she important and her commitment to didn’t really want to. North/South solidarity. A big thank you goes to Geoffrey Shepherd for helping Finally, we would like to dedicate this my English and more importantly for the Cookbook to everyone who cares about idea that there is a communion in food. food. As an urban farmer once told us, There are many who from behind the our attentiveness to growing food is a scenes have encouraged and supported way of understanding our humanity and me, and I would like to thank them all something greater than ourselves. It but also respect their preference for is about celebrating together. If we till remaining anonymous. I wouldn’t have the land and dig the well very deep, we been able to do any of the work I have may fnd out that we all have the same been involved in without the contin- origins. That we all share natural re- ued love and support of my father and sources is important. We wish to thank mother who taught me responsibility, everyone for keeping the water fowing, dedication and humility. Thanks also the food growing, the kitchen cooking to my grandmother for inspiring me and our journey continuing. since my childhood, and showing me that food and cooking are more than making a meal. the food junctions cookbook I 8