Modern Hungers (2021)

HOT MESS KIMCHI

We are tangled in stories that are tied to how we relate to one another, to plants, to place. Reflex reactions and stagnant stories keep us swirling in a Hot Mess. Rather than avoiding or trying to contain or control these fiery topics, we’re turning up the heat. Let's feed our inner fires, and practice being in the cultural heat. Inspired by Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix and Sandor Katz and the Tiny Wild. Designed for teens and adults digesting hard transitions.

Fermenting Cultural Tension into Flavor

A fermentation workshop that explores the power of discomfort, contradiction, and transformation. Come for the kimchi-making. Stay for the culture-making.

My Mother’s Alien Water Kimchi Recipe

Crunchy Vegetables
Blue skies means sunshine, means food. Plants are the first tech that nourished life on Earth. Kimchi always starts with crunchy vegetables.

Water + Salt
Some ancestral stories say we came from the sea. Can we imagine a future from a shared present, rather than a divided past? Can you taste the sea?

Your Hot Mess
What are your entanglements? Instead of avoiding or trying to contain these fiery topics, we’re turning up the cultural heat by kimchi-ing our way to more digestibility.

Dazzle
What is the food for this hot mess moment? How do we nourish our Modern Hungers of dis-location, dis-connection, dis-integration? What are your deepest needs, most desperate desires, and wildest dreams?

Tiny Wild + Time
What is the flavor of change? Let’s kimchi our way through our hot messes with crunchy plants in salt water brine, a dash of dazzle, the tiny wild, and time.

Take Home

  • Jar of beautiful water kimchi

  • Water kimchi recipe

  • More care about our ecosystems

  • Deeper connection with yourself and others through fermentation