
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?’



Salmon Island
Cooking Sections
23rd September, 2020
On this month's Dark Kitchen table: artist duo Cooking Sections' CLIMAVORE project on the island of Skye and an extract from their 'island book' 'Salmon - A Red Herring'

Bread Not Gold
Ian M
9th October, 2019
This autumn from our Dark Kitchen: Ian M reports from a season spent working under the trees that have provided humans and other creatures with their bounty for millennia.

Plant Teachings
Tamara Colchester
3rd April, 2019
Follow Tamara Colchester as she goes into the woods to collect spring leaves from our wild medicine cabinet



Uncivilising the Table
Charlotte Du Cann
5th April, 2018
We are looking at a plate. On it piled in chunky layers are home-baked sourdough...

Making Friends with Microbes
Mark Watson
12th March, 2018
‘Is it safe to eat?’ I asked, nervously peering into the pungent and compelling Korean ferment. It was a very modern reaction:...

Salmo Salar
Max Jones
10th March, 2018
There is a sense of normality and purpose in the lives of true artisans of...

A Recipe for Belonging
Olga Bloemen and Amabel Crowe
2nd March, 2018
One of the villagers can’t resist and ventures out of her house to ask what...