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Iranian cuisine

workshops and an open meeting

July 29, 2022 (Friday)

The programme entitled “There’s always a place for you at our table” presented the cooking culture of contemporary settlers, immigrants who have come to Poland in the 21st century. The presentation was done through workshops, dialogue, narrative. The workshops were attended both by the people from Tri-City and by tourists.

We invited everyone who wanted to learn how to cook originally foreign, sometimes exotic dishes, but also, or perhaps mostly, those interested in the newcomers, who found it interesting to discuss cuisines, home, longing, the way they absorb Poland into their lives and their food.

Videos were produced during the cycle to document the events, as well as reportage photography projects published on the Facebook page of the Ethnography Department of the Gdańsk National Museum and on the Gdańsk National Museum’s website.

Milad Ghorbani

Milad Ghorbani – an Iranian national from Tehran, living in Europe for 13 years, currently a permanent resident of Sweden, but visits Poland often. He graduated from university in Hungary and spent several months in Serbia. A pharmacist by profession, currently working as one in the Värmland region of Sweden, but his truly great passion is cooking. This is what helps him move to his mother country and family home that he has been missing continuously for years. Through the scents and flavors of the Persian cuisine, he returns to the places he knows and loves; he sees it as a method of dealing with the challenges faced by an immigrant in his daily life. He invited us to a Persian cuisine workshop where we produced Mirza Ghasemi, a dish originating from north Iran. It is a wonderful marriage of aubergines, garlic and tomatoes that gave us a great feeling of Milad’s home country.

Recipes

Mirza Ghasemi ENPobierz
Kashke Bademjan ENPobierz

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Substantive and curatorial supervision: Monika Kucia.
Monika Kucia – journalist, curator, producer, performer. She graduated from the Department of Theatre Studies at the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw (1999). Curator of the “Lenten Psalms”/“New Epiphanies” Festival since 2014. Journalist, writes regularly for Przekrój quarterly magazine and Culture.pl portal. Author of “Cuisine PL”, a publication promoting the Polish food service industry for the duration of Poland’s Presidency in the EU in 2011. She has authored several culinary & artistic events, such as: “The Wake. Ritual of a Loss” at the National Ethnographic Museum (2016), “The Curse” at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art (2019), “All Inclusive” (2019) for the inauguration of Culturescapes Festival at Theater Basel, or “Polish Table: Mine, Yours, Ours” at the New York Museum of Food and Drink (2018). She organized cultural/culinary educational and social projects, in collaboration with such institutions as Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

An open meeting after the workshop was available to everyone. There were micro-tastings of foods and beverages.

Event partner: KUKBUK.PL.

  • We promote the zero waste concept and pro-environmental attitudes. We appreciate traditions. We learn about the culture of the region and folk cultures of other countries. We want to educate through arts and crafts. We connect children, youth and adults with male and female artists, folk creators and museum people.

  • We work together for a green, competitive Europe, supporting social inclusion. 

  • The programme entitled “There’s always a place for you at our table” took place within the project “The Shelter. Climate, Migrations, Heritage”, co-funded with the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the “Culture” Programme, Measure 2 “Improvement of art and culture accessibility”.

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