
Dark Kitchen

Starting as a series edited by Charlotte Du Cann, Dark Kitchen has become an ongoing exploration of the culture of food in times of fall. We travel through different kingdoms and terrains, sharpening our appetites and cooking knives, in the company of artists, filmmakers, writers and activists.
It starts from an awareness of the industrial food system, with its whirlygig of distribution centres and trucks thundering down our roads, but seeks to go deeper, to enter into a different relationship with the creatures and plants and people that sustain us. ‘What do you do,’ asks Charlotte, ‘as an artist, as a storytelling human being, knowing that every time you venture out with a shopping basket, you return with blood on your hands?’


This Bubbling Jar
Mark Watson
30th March, 2022
Final post for Dark Kitchen: plant activist Mark Watson tracks a transformative journey into the lively world of cabbage leaves and microbes, in the company of maestro fermenter, Sandor Ellix Katz.





The Swell of the Mountain Tide
Max Jones
14th July, 2021
For Dark Kitchen Max Jones follows the dairy herd into the Italian Alps and celebrates the sounds, rhythms and tastes of the ancient practice of transhumance

When We Eat, We Are Eating the World
Mark Watson
6th July, 2021
Third post in our summer Dark Kitchen series, Mark Watson interviews Soto Zen 'tenzo' Valerie Duvauchelle about cooking in a storm and cultivating right relationship with food and community

Sheaf
Charlotte Du Cann
30th June, 2021
Introducing our all-colour booklet co-produced with Hodmedod about grains and the people who grow them by three Dark Mountain writers. Photographs by Anne Campbell.

Anam manoomin’n
Augustin of the Road
23rd June, 2021
Latest Dark Kitchen series begins with Augustin of the Road's story of wild rice and the restoration of the Kalamazoo river in the Enbridge Line 6B Oil Spill Zone