Cookbook — STOMA

Stoma cookbook
Ungoing project

The Stoma Cookbook is an ongoing project in which we are gathering and sharing reflections from artists on the emotional, relational nature of what and how we eat. This is an investigation and celebration of beautiful and challenging experiences more than of any particular cuisine. (That said, the instructions are not abstract; this is a book from which to cook.)

The cookbook explores how we come to the proverbial table, collectively or with ourselves, and influence each other and our surroundings toward generativity. In societies that are centered around production rather than connection, eating has become a means to an end. Food is treated as fuel, to be consumed as efficiently and pragmatically as possible, as an emotional sedative, or as a signal of cultural capital, a performance prop.

The Stoma Cookbook is an invitation to reclaim the aesthetics of food and everything that happens around it. To inhabit rituals that illuminate the spiritual aspects of sharing a meal. As you read the stories, we hope you will find prompts to create and relate, to join the game.

Open call

We are releasing selections from the Stoma Cookbook in a series of zines, leading up to the publication of the full collection as a bound book.

If you would like to feed this project, please cook from these recipes, and share your experiences with us. We are collecting documentation of people interacting with this project and food and each other. E-mail the evidence to us at stoma@tutamail.com, and let us know if we have your permission to publish those good crumbs in a subsequent zine.