Dislocated Cuisine
What
makes a dish truly authentic?
Living
away from home, how do we recreate the food of our memories?
When trade routes shift and supply chains break, can a familiar taste survive in a distant soil?
Photographed by JianDa Huang.
When trade routes shift and supply chains break, can a familiar taste survive in a distant soil?
This
hands-on workshop invites the participants to reflect on the ingredients that
define their favorite dishes, questioning what happens to authentic
flavors when they are displaced. Through visual mapping and
collective conversation, we explored where our food comes from
and whether authenticity lives in rigid recipes or adaptive
traditions.
Can local substitutes keep a culinary memory alive — or does adaptation create something entirely new?
Can local substitutes keep a culinary memory alive — or does adaptation create something entirely new?
Photographed by JianDa Huang.
Dislocated Cuisine Workshop & Open discussion at NOR, Eindhoven (The Netherlands) (DDW 2026).
A Korean bibimbap was served at the start of the workshop, as an opening to the conversation on ‘What is Authenticity?