IMBISS: A Working Group - Episode 4: A Cookbook of Hunger

The fourth “IMBISS: A Working Group” session, organised by Pablo Giménez Arteaga, will look at the histories of the famine that followed the Spanish Civil War. We will delve into the politics of the blockade and rationing periods, focusing on oral history testimonies and the inventive survival recipes from that time. The episode will finish with the tasting of a recipe created out of the limitations of the period.

IMBISS: A Working Group

“IMBISS: a working group” is a series of study groups, workshops and performances around the kitchen table that think food as that which is simultaneously life sustenance, a cultural ecosystem and a political product. Its curriculum looks at the intersections between eating practices, culinary histories, food production and trade, and global politics.

Each of the series’ sessions will focus on a different food item or practice and open up its political history. They will be looking at how these intersect with colonial histories, global capitalist trade routes, processes of racialisation, gender politics, economic uneven development, histories of revolutionary organising, and others.

This project is being developed with the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.