Cooking is a cultural and social act that gives rise to learning processes that promote participation. Opening our pots and pans is an invitation to share recipes, stories, condiments and tastes.

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• Welcome bitter-spicy cocoa.
• Bean + olive pate.
• Polenta balls, covered with nuts and tomato sauce.
• Vegetable stew with mashed potatoes.
• Stew coffee.

What kind of debt do you think the food you eat every day has?

The Cocinar Madrid team carried out research previous to the workshop to show us, through the food that we were going to cook, the different types of debt that our daily diet carries: historical debt, ecological debt and gender debt. We learned a lot of things in this workshop, from the problems behind foods such as chocolate or sugar, to curiosities about the origin of the foods that make up the basis of the Spanish diet, of which only a few are of European origin.

While we were cutting carrots and peeling potatoes, a very interesting debate was generated on all these issues, and other concepts such as food sovereignty or food mile. We talked about how and under what conditions food is produced, where it comes from, what social and ecological costs it has and what alternatives exist to improve our way of consuming it in order to reduce its impact. The workshop ended with the tasting of the cooked dishes, which we shared around the table, while we continued talking.

Here is the complete document of the research carried out by Cocinar Madrid:

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This project is co-financed by the European Union through the European project Citizens for Financial Justice. With the collaboration of Medialab Prado, the Complutense University of Madrid, the network of the Museo Situado (Museo Reina Sofía), Espacio Vecinal Arganzuela and the Teatro del Barrio. Coordinated by the Plataforma Auditoría Ciudadana de la Deuda, Grigri Projects and Massa Critica Napoli.