The Culinary Heritage Project
Migration Through Food
- Purpose
- Trace what a family or community carried, changed and retained as it moved.
- Suitable setting
- A table with a simple map or list of places — not a political atlas.
- Suggested participants
- People who moved, or whose parents or grandparents moved.
- Group size
- 3–15.
- Approximate format
- Each person names origin, a place lived, and a dish that travelled or stayed behind.
- Host guidance
- Do not assign national ownership to a dish. Record the speaker’s own geographic words.
- Preservation prompts
- What travelled in a suitcase? What could not be found? What did the new market change?
- Suggested interview questions
- What kept its name? What changed its name? Who cooked it first in the new place?
- What to bring
- A dish, spice, photograph, or nothing but memory.
- KinDish contribution methods
- Speak or write. Name places as the speaker does. KinDish will not invent a route.
- Privacy and consent
- Journeys can be political. Default to family privacy unless the speaker asks for public.
- What knowledge this event tries to preserve
- Origin, places lived, dishes carried or left, substitutions, names in more than one language.
- Expected archival outcome
- A journey memory on KinDish. Atlas may show it later only if the record is public and the place is known.