Nourishing causes

In times of  inflation, scarcity, repression, genocide, natural disasters, displacement, and blockades, feeding each other becomes an urgent and deeply political act. Eating well is not a luxury — it’s a necessity to sustain our communities, care for one another through the stomach, and keep resisting.
Food holds a central place in community dynamics, especially for those that fight for life under adverse conditions. It is nourishment, refuge, gathering, pleasure, and celebration.

Over the course of three days, this workshop — led by Gudelia and Dalís, mother and daughter — invites us to think of the kitchen as a space for collective organizing and action. We will cook on a large scale, guided by an approach that weaves together tradition, memory, and community. We will explore key Andean ingredients foundational to Peruvian cuisine, their role in global food systems, and their ties to territorial struggles and processes of liberation. We’ll share techniques, knowledge, stories, and flavors, while reflecting on how we relate to this art and how to

cook in ways that challenge capitalist systems of production, whilst honouring and maintaining the dignity of the communities we cook for.

 

Over the course of three days, this workshop — led by Gudelia and Dalís, mother and daughter — invites us to think of the kitchen as a space for collective organizing and action. We will cook at a big scale, guided by an approach that weaves together tradition, memory, and community. We will explore key Andean ingredients foundational to Peruvian cuisine, their role in global food systems, and their ties to territorial struggles and processes of liberation. We’ll share techniques, knowledge, stories, and flavors, while reflecting on how we relate to this art and how to build dignified food alternatives in different contexts.

The wisdom of our cultures is not decorative or a curiosity for consumption. It is a living, deeply political knowledge that continues to sustain our ways of life. Everyone deserves to eat well.

Each day will combine theory and practice. Together, we will cook to feed around 70 people per day.

Dalís Pacheco Salcedo is a Peruvian interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer based in Berlin since 2015.
Her practice is based on personal and collective emotional research, between fiction and documentary, analog and digital.
Experimenting through different processes that question colonial, capitalist, patriarchal and ableist approaches.

Gudelia Salcedo Cárdenas is an autodidact culinary researcher, cook, administrator, former union leader and head of her family. She was born and raised in Muquiyauyo, a town in the Mantaro Valley, in the central Andes of Peru. Later, she migrated to Lima, where she has lived ever since.
For the past 33 years, she has run her Peruvian restaurant, bringing native ingredients back to the table, reimagining traditional recipes and celebrating regional flavours. Along the way, she has built teams where personal and collective growth have always been part of the journey.