KONVIVIÁLIS articsóka - EMLÉKEZETES ASZTALI VIGASSÁGOK BARÁTOKKAL - ÉS ANNÁL TÖBB// CONVIVIAL artichoke - feasts at the table, closely woven

Entangled, luxurious, very slow, friendly, dance.

visit friends' garden to complement home grown artichokes with freshly picked fava, snap peas, garlic

long prep, wash, remove small bugs, clean leaf by leaf, how many leaves? 

very tender and intimate touch, opening the petals

prep stuffing - two kinds - one gluten free

crumbs from sourdough with einkorn, whole wheat, spelt, linseed and oat ersatz (leftover from home-made oat 'milk') toasted in olive oil, add chopped garlic, salt

get more herbs

chop, add - tarragon, thyme, lovage. adjust taste

tea is ready

toast with friend's wine

smell the potent malt drying

fill the half artichoke heads between the petals, place in pot with friendly olive oil, add herbs, garlic stalk ribbons - a deluxe accessoir

drink tea

cover the artichokes with some water and more olive oil, herbs and lemon juice

cook till almost tender, then add fava, later cooked chick peas, snap peas

eat        petal       by      petal

till you get to the heart

buttersoft

a seaside meal

(this meal was cooked with what was on hand, therefore smaller quantity of some ingredients (fava) but more diversity - chick peas for more nourishment. many other variations are possible)

this is what I call convivial. in other words embedded. (See earlier blogpost announcing exhibition at Terrapolis https://terrapolistarcal.blogspot.com/2022/02/terrapolis-bubajos-hetvegen-aprilis-29.html and 

the afterthoughts.

and this is how I sketched it a while ago, after another friendly, entangled, more-than ..... convivial meal

Raúl Matta visited Terrapolis in the early summer and was very happy to discover this drawing since he researches exactly this topic. He asked to use it for his article: Towards Convivial Foodscapes

Some of the ideas I can fully relate to: 

"Conviviality encompasses principles of equity, interdependence, mutual respect for one another and the natural world, and the assumption of joint responsibility for the ways in which we live and engage. This implicates cultivating human attention and wisdom to “correspond” with other beings36. Correspondence here denotes “the process by which beings or things literally answer to one another over time” not in the desire to know more about the other beings or things, “but to become better acquainted with” them and get along together37. In this view, conviviality postulates that “to be is always to be-with”.

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