Eat in Take out pairs Soba’s Corner, a video work and takeout menu by Snack Witch/Joni Cheung with a collaborative zine, and dinner party. The exhibition explores food, recipes, restaurant aesthetics, and dinner table gathering as sites of cultural knowledge and connection. 

Through parallel spaces of care and disruption, Eat in Take out embraces the collective experience of food-sharing while examining how representations of cultural cuisines can reveal uncomfortable histories and value-systems. Soba’s Corner uses the familiar “how-to” format of a cooking show to play with notions of authenticity, while  incorporating hidden narratives in the video captions and menu’s text. 

The Eat in Take out zine consists of community-generated recipes, stories, and photographs from Paolino Caputo, Alanna Edwards,  Mel Granley, Dani Neira, Josh Ngenda, and Rudra Manani. Prompted by personal and cultural experiences with food, we were pleasantly surprised to find our email inbox filled with recipes for doughy comfort food: bread, bannock, arepas, pancakes, and dhokla.

Documentation by Cole Smith