Crossing Tables #9: Koken met Status
An artist, cook or collective brings flavours and migration stories together in a sensory experience. Every third Thursday of the month at 6.00 p.m. on Plein.
This edition: Koken met Status. An ode to the women who rebuild their lives and support their families after a life-changing decision.
Koken met Status
On this evening, Renée de Laat from Koken met Status cooks together with women with a migration background. The dishes are connected to their home countries, cuisines and family stories. The flavours travelled with them: recipes passed down from generation to generation and food that reminds them of home.
An ode to women
During the dinner, Renée talks about what it means, as a woman, to leave home and begin again somewhere else. Food and cooking play an important part in this: as a way of carrying memories with you and finding a new home. The stories of these women return in the dishes on the table.
On the menu
The vegetarian menu includes dishes from, among others, Ukrainian, Congolese and Iraqi cuisine. There is borscht, holubtsi, fufu, plantain and bean stew to taste. The evening ends with something sweet, such as daheen or künefe with tea and coffee.
Crossing tables at Fenix Plein
About Koken met Status
Koken met Status is a social cooking project by Renée de Laat. Together with status holders and people with a migration background, she cooks dishes connected to their home countries. Through recipes, portraits and personal stories, Cooking with Status shows how food brings people together, even when they do not share the same language or background.
Cookbook 'koken met status'
World Refugee Day at Fenix
From 16 to 20 June, Fenix marks World Refugee Day with films, dinners, conversations and art. It is a week to reflect on what it means to flee, to live far from home and to begin again. The week ends with the Night of the Refugee: a walking event by Stichting Vluchteling, in which participants walk to support emergency aid worldwide.
