'Cooked Up' -  a Zebra D'Oro performance project based on the food-inspired anthology of short stories compiled by writer Elaine Chew published by New Internationalist.

 

 

 "If food embodies an element of the universal, so does

story-telling. Much has been written about why we read short

stories, about their vital function of first entertaining then

 instructing, about narratives grand and minor, about how

good fiction – as Salman Rushdie once said – makes us want

 to stand up and applaud. Well, food beautifully cooked and

presented has the feel of temporal art and it also makes me

want to ‘stand up and applaud’. It’s in no way reductionist

simply to say: these are my two passions – food and fiction"

Elaine Chew

 

Just like a variation of a recipe, the three performance pieces remain true to the spirit of the original story, while bringing fresh ingredients and a raw humanity to the artistic mixture.