EDITORIAL DESIGN CREATIVE DIRECTION ESSAY WRITING

POPOTE:
A COLLECTIVE RECIPE BOOK

YEAR2024

IN COLLABORATION WITH

DEVELOPED FOR

Exhibition ‘Popote’,
Espace Dukat

LANGUAGESFrench/ English

FINISHINGAtelier Maude Renevier, Collectif Kimera, Elisa Bonami

CONTENTS- 14 recipes
- 2 essays
(Cooking Identities and Hey Woman, Are You a Roti? Patriarchy and Indian Flatbread)
- 1 magnet
- 1 ceramic spoon

Collectif Kimera composes of 10 bellies holding an endless number of culinary delights, memories and reflections. For them, the act of cooking and sharing meals stands as a highlight for mutual exchange and care. Using food beyond sustenance, it acts as an ingredient in cooking one’s cultural heritage and memories, being an edible memory. A way to voice in harmony, bring all flavours of Kimera together, to ground themselves in the present, within the collective and by extension within society.
Recipes are rituals, created together from experiences and memories, capable of evoking and creating the smell of emotions. They are the palates through which one connects and acts as the utensils to engage in collective reflection.
All good dishes take time and care, and so does this one of edible memories with this ever-growing recipe book as the vessel. It acts as a way to contain, archive and convey the warmth of Collectif Kimera’s shared meals and moments.