Beskrivning
Over the years the Anarchist Teapot mobile kitchen has been asked many times for advice on mass catering. We actually decided a few years ago that we wanted to produce a recipe booklet, but never got it together. And I got tired of writing the same advice over and over again in emails, so I took it on to compile an info booklet.
So, first of all this is entirely based on our own, specific experiences, and what I’d say if you asked me: fuck, how and what do I cook for 150 people? It’s also entirely based on our own motivations to cook. To us, it’s nothing to do with making profits or even earning ourselves any wages, but it is to do with wanting to fulfil a role in the communities we build when we engage in grassroots resistance.
We figured a movement serious about attacking authority, confronting exploitation and destruction, and building a new world should be able to take care of itself. Feeding ourselves is a part of this. When lots of people want to come together, to discuss the state of the world, learn skills, share information, or take action, they need food. It’s a bit crap if we have to resort to giving all our money to commercial caterers, or to sending people to the chip shop. Our kitchen is based within the anarchist and ecological movements, and we don’t consider ourselves separate, some kind of service, or vending machine. And when we’re cooking, we want to enjoy what we’re doing, it’s not a ‘job’, with a manager, but self organised and on our own terms.
We also think it’s important to provide ourselves with decent, nutritious food that’s vegan, organic, or at least good quality, locally sourced and affordable. Even if we’re all doley scum we deserve to eat well!
