Kitchen Recipies

Abstract

This paper examines the intersection of food, gender, and collective action in domestic and public spaces, inspired by Verónica Gago's Feminist International: How to Change Everything. Gago views kitchens as "situated apparatuses of collective intelligence," transforming them into political arenas. The article explores domestic kitchens, soup kitchens, and street cooking demonstrations as spaces that transcend food provision to become hubs of feminist resistance and social reconfiguration. Feminist strikes emerging from these contexts illustrate how women, lesbians, trans individuals, and others mobilize collective labor to critique systemic crises. Food is framed as a medium that reshapes kinships, reflecting societal structures such as labor dynamics, intimacy, and resistance. The processes of food production, provision, and consumption expose the gendered division of reproductive labor, shaping social and built environments. By reinterpreting kitchens as sites of feminist praxis, this work highlights the transformative potential of food-related practices to challenge systemic inequalities and build solidarity.