Table Of ContentThe Food Junctions Cookbook is supported by UCL under the Beacons for Public Engagement programme - funded
by the UK Funding Councils, Research Councils UK and the Wellcome Trust - and also by the UCL Grand Challenge of
Sustainable Cities and by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
the food junctions cookbook
living recipes for social innovation
First published as the Food Junctions Cookbook in 2011
by Marina Chang and Lukas Meusburger
University College London
Gower Street, London
WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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the food junctions cookbook
living recipes for social innovation
edited by
marina chang
lukas meusburger
Contents
Acknowledgements Eight Treasure pudding
Dr. Vivienne Lo
Picture credits
Financialised food
Foreword: The complex wonder of food Christine Haigh
Professor Michael Worton Focusing on screwpines
Introduction Shuen-Yi Long
Marina Chang Food directions
Dræyk van der Hørn
Recipes: Food sovereignty
5-A-GREEN Michelle Springfeld and Graciela
Sandhya Kaffo Romero Vasquez
Allotment soups Food, fun and a life well lived
Dr. Robert Biel Professor Matthew Gandy
An edible architecture Food: the ‘new’ art in cities?
Richard Beckett Regan Koch
Baghali polo makes me happy Foodcycling
Minoosh Seif Lara Glass
Banana bread From tea to Tao
Dr. Kaori O’Connor Shun Long
A bannock-eye view of history Fruit carving
Laura Ishiguro Sumalee Murphy
Catherine’s cherry kisses Global Generation change
Karen Rumsey Jane Riddiford
Cautious, competent, confdent Good food for everyone forever
Samantha Bilton Colin Tudge
Certifcation overload Growing a healthy revolution
Sarah Goler Anthony Stonehouse
City vines Growing a multicultural community
Richard Sharp garden – Mila Compoy
Coronation chicken Growing Communities
Dr. Claire Dwyer Michael Roberts Jr.
Creating compassion Harvesting fruit in the city
Marleen Slingenbergh Michael Stuart
Digger barley Himalayan meals
Hannah Roberson Professor Anthony Costello
Does it have to be this way? Hot stuff!
Ruchi Tripathi Nick Hayes
Eating cats Jam for social networking
Mark Carnall Dr. Rebecca Litchfeld
Education with pesto Kilburn station planters
Sarah Moore Sanchia Dunn
Making universities into better Silent food
neighbours – Dr. Hilary Jackson and Dr. Adeline Tay
Dr. Gemma Moore Silkworms and mulberry
Mapping local food for change Phil Paulo
Chris Church Spice Caravan
Matters of taste Spice Caravan catering co-op
Sanna Hirvonen Spreading cocoa love
Milk drinking and evolution Petra Barran
Professor Mark G Thomas Stirring up a storm of healthy habits
Milkshake exclusif Dr. Kate Evans, Charlene Shoneye, Dr.
Sam Bompas Laura McGowan and Susanne Meisel
More than stuffed dormice Stolen honey
Dr. Debbie Challis Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum
Mulberry ice Student potential energy
Andy Hulme Christabel Buchannan
Mulligatawny soup and “authentic” Sustainable society cake
curry – Divya Narayanan Simon Goldsmith
New dishes on the table Taewa Maori
Clayton Chiang Stephen FitzHerbert
New Garden City movement Tasting wine
Philip Ross Professor Kathleen Burk
One hundred sixty eight venison pasties There are no bad foods
Sarah Ann Milne Professor David A Bender
Organiclea This is a performance after all
Khadija Gitay Vipul Sangoi and Anusha
Poetry menu Subramanyam
Simon Barraclough Towards a co-operative society
Queen’s Market curry Dr. Mary Hilson
Freek Janssens Urban food and sustainable cities
Quite nicely Dr. Ian Scott
Christopher Benstead Urban rural linkage
Reclaiming land Ailbhe Gerrard
Dr. Ian Fitzpatrick Woolton Pie
Reclaiming waste Dr. Richard Farmer
Sara Wingate Gray Word of mouth
Rediscovering the sacred Professor Ian Needleman
Susie Weldon
Rethinking your vegetables Epilogue
Lesley Acton Lukas Meusburger
Save the pookato
John Braime
Acknowledgements
Throughout this journey we have been We are grateful to the UCL Public
supported by many people without Engagement Unit - Steve Cross, Hilary
whose help and advice this project Jackson and Gemma Moore - for sup-
would not have been possible. We would porting a group of students at all levels
like to express our gratitude to all of and enabling us to run large projects
those involved in this journey, whose like ours. Their panel not only fnanced
willingness to share their experiences, Food Junctions and Foodpaths and the
stories, wisdom and insights helped major part of this Cookbook, but the
develop this Cookbook. team also helped us solve many prob-
lems along the way. Helpful sums were
We were never alone, optimism and also contributed by a grant from the
enthusiasm coming from working with UCL Grand Challenge of Sustainable
our core team members at Food Junc- Cities and the Engineering and Physical
tions: Regan Koch, Julian Cox, Shuen-Yi Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Long, Stephanie Mills, Lucy Natarajan, Few could hope for a better place to
Ailbhe Gerrard and Sharon Tan – thank gain such enormous institutional sup-
you very much for getting the project port than UCL, and thanks are due to
started in the frst place. Thanks also go all there, particularly Michael Worton,
to Daniel Fitzpatrick, Michael Stuart and Sally MacDonald, Ian Scott, Clare Ryan,
Karol Yanez at Foodpaths who helped Robert Eagle, Rachel Lister and John
continue this challenging but always Braime.
joyful journey.
‘Be the change you want to see in the world’. Front Quad, UCL
Mahatma Gandhi
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We would like to extend our thanks to fulfl our goal of making these seventy-
Phil Paulo at Camley Street Natural three very different contributions look
Park and Louise Gates at the Calthorpe like part of a whole while also keeping
Project for letting us experiment with their own voices and remaining faithful
our ideas and use their venues for the to what the author meant and intended.
Food Junctions and Foodpaths events Special thanks go to the two graphic
respectively. They, along with many designers – Adriana Molina and Chris
other community groups and individu- Lemmens – for Food Junctions and
als, have taught us that there are lots of Foodpaths events and this Cookbook,
recipes for good and exciting university respectively. They proved themselves
and community collaborations but the true collaborators and good friends.
ingredients must always include empa- Thanks to Lesley Acton, Regan Koch,
thy and kindness. We need a vision and Hilary Jackson, Michael Kieber, Mi-
the big picture as well as attention to chael Stuart and Lucy Natarajan for
detail and hard work. Fun and food are proofreading some of the articles, Sara
defnitely useful. We have also learnt Wingate Gray for teaching us much
that accepting that we are all different about copyright, Felix Gonzales, Steph-
while at the same time focusing on our anie Thieullent and Kim Walker for
common interests is a good start. taking photos and videos of the events,
Sion Whellens for printing advice and
Our heartfelt thanks go to the contribu- Johannes Klotz for taking the picture of
tors of this collection who took time to us, printed on the back cover.
write essays based on faith that this
book would really happen, and whose Deepest thanks to Kaori O’Connor for
wonderful pieces made the work of mentorship, support and encourage-
putting this Cookbook together truly ment – and who always knew that there
enjoyable. Thanks for bearing with our would be a book. She spent a great deal
many queries and not being annoyed of time editing, proofreading and giving
by our chasing up questions about the us all sorts of professional guidance.
article, image or copyright forms, even She came to our rescue through her
after midnight sometimes. Thanks to subtle knowledge and detailed atten-
Harry West for supporting our events tion with far more kindness than we
and his beautiful ‘mistake’ of forward- deserved. Without her being on our side
ing our invitation to him to contribute from the outset, this book would never
a piece to the entire SOAS Food Stud- have been completed.
ies Centre mailing list. As a result, we
received a number of contributions from From Marina: At UCL, I consider myself
this network. very lucky to be part of such a stimulat-
ing learning environment. I must single
Thanks to Ian Fitzpatrick, who helped us out a number of academic staff who set
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me on the right path. These include: From Lukas: A big thank you goes to my
Robert Biel, my PhD supervisor, for the family for their support in literally eve-
concepts of commons, grassroots mo- rything I do: Ruth, Leo and Pia Meus-
bilisation, our relationship with nature burger. Even though she does not want
and the power of food; Caren Levy for to be mentioned here, I am also grate-
strategic action planning and institu- ful for Moriyamo Olusoga’s good ideas
tionalisation; Yves Cabannes for food and her not being shy about expressing
sovereignty and participatory budget- her critical opinions. Without friends,
ing; Matthew Gandy for urban theories; doing something like this book would
Michael Edwards for his pioneering be equally impossible and – out of many
work on university-community engage- – I would like to give special thanks to
ment; Jane Rendell for critical spatial Michael Kieber and Pascal Grosskopff
practice and the notions of social sculp- for, among other things, letting me
ture and a living artist; Muki Haklay sleep very little during the last Food
for co-production of knowledge; Kevin Junctions weekend. Thanks also to sup-
Morgan for politics of care; Tim Lang portive fatmates Joakim Ivarson and
for food democracy and Robin Murray Joshua Eichler-Summers for proofread-
for social innovation. I would also like ing and general cheering up and Marta
to thank Rita Valencia for showing me Pyrzyk for giving out Food Junctions
that politics and spirituality are equally fyers in the UCL Quad even though she
important and her commitment to didn’t really want to.
North/South solidarity. A big thank you
goes to Geoffrey Shepherd for helping Finally, we would like to dedicate this
my English and more importantly for the Cookbook to everyone who cares about
idea that there is a communion in food. food. As an urban farmer once told us,
There are many who from behind the our attentiveness to growing food is a
scenes have encouraged and supported way of understanding our humanity and
me, and I would like to thank them all something greater than ourselves. It
but also respect their preference for is about celebrating together. If we till
remaining anonymous. I wouldn’t have the land and dig the well very deep, we
been able to do any of the work I have may fnd out that we all have the same
been involved in without the contin- origins. That we all share natural re-
ued love and support of my father and sources is important. We wish to thank
mother who taught me responsibility, everyone for keeping the water fowing,
dedication and humility. Thanks also the food growing, the kitchen cooking
to my grandmother for inspiring me and our journey continuing.
since my childhood, and showing me
that food and cooking are more than
making a meal.
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