‘Endangered Pudding’ seeks to unearth the knowledge which lies between the lines of a recipe, and the words spoken between spoonfuls through performance.
Faye Matloub and Harmanpreet Randahawa respond to the idea of food heritage in danger of being forgotten or overlooked. Inspired by the specificity of endangered puddings, both artists have drawn on their personal relationships to recipes and ingredients to explore the importance of food as a universal, sensory language.
Recipes live and breathe beyond their simple instructions. They are love letters, maps, archives, genealogies, geological surveys, time capsules. They are evolving ‘social entities’, systems of ideas that hold emotion, memory, experience, and culture. Faye will be serving a dish and giving a live reading, and Harman will present an embodied performance, both grounded in their own relationships to food culture and heritage.
‘Endangered Pudding’ asks: Where did these ingredients grow, how were they brought together, and who chopped, peeled and stirred? How much, beyond its taste, is lost if a recipe is never cooked again?
