Home-made Dinner at Grey Space in the Middle

12 March 2023

For this Dinner Session, artist Parel Strik invited Julija Mockutė to create a dinner together with a focus on ‘home’, asking; What is creating a home? What is being at home? What does a home feel like? Both Parel and Julija live away from their old home, so much of their time is spent making and creating a new one. For this dinner, they invited the guests to ponder on what home is and how we create one in precarity. For this Dinner Session, the hosts brought ingredients that make them feel at home and invite the guest to take something home with them. Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”, which proposes that gathering is how we can create a sense of belonging, Parel and Julija came to Grey Space in the Middle’s kitchen to prepare a two-course meal based on heritage and seasonality, including a starter activity, which turned into a take-home dessert to bring home inside of a gifted embroidered towel.

Menu

Potato gratin on a bed of spinach, roasted mini cauliflower steaks with a cauliflower puree with tahini, pomegranate, sliced almonds, lemon zest, and mint.

Sweet yeast dough with flavoured butter.