Video Still, Milwaukee Kitchen Episode 06, Salad Days
Milwaukee Kitchen is a made-for-Youtube cooking program with the motto: always staged, never rehearsed. The program showcases the kitchen as generative meeting ground with a rotating cast of hosts and guests. The main feature is the kitchen’s magnetic capability to bring people together and put an edge on the exchange of food and ideas.
The project explores food ways and their surrounding social rituals as a means of creating shared experiences and nuanced idiosyncrasies. A typical episode highlights the kitchen as the heart of domestic routine, cultural hybridity, social comforts, and science-like experimentation.
The project uses mainstream technologies to create and distribute an earnest, if off-kilter, love of everything the vernacular kitchen represents by way of feeding us. The project pays homage to recipes and cookbooks across a wide spectrum of cultural backgrounds, eras, and pragmatic usefulness. Since its inception in 2018, Milwaukee Kitchen has showcased dozens of recipes and over thirty guests.
Milwaukee Kitchen is produced in a cottage house, built circa 1890, in a neighborhood of equally modest housing stock situated five minutes from the urban center of a medium-sized midwestern city that continues to adapt and reinvent itself in today’s post-industrial, pandemic landscape.
Press coverage of Milwaukee Kitchen:
‘Milwaukee Kitchen’ is the antidote for modern cooking shows (and everything else)
—Milwaukee Record
Cooking and Community on Milwaukee Kitchen —Shepherd Express
Milwaukee Kitchen —Milwaukee Magazine and 88.Nine
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Screening History:
Woodland Pattern Book Center, May 9th 2019
