“Easy as Pie” discusses the irony of accepting culture through cuisine while discriminating against the people who create it.
“Apple a Day” criticizes the oversimplified journey to living a healthy life, exposing the connections between food insecurity & health.
“The Chicken or the Egg?” addresses the broken restaurant model, and instead, proposes a redesign that supports workers’ well-beings & food sovereignty.
“Icing on the Cake” explores the embellishment and prop-design integrated into food photography, commenting on its tendency to further orientalize “ethnic” cuisines.
“On a Silver Platter” criticizes the gold standard placed on French cuisine that creates an unattainable picture of luxury.
“Grain of Salt” applies the idiom to the context of manipulated colonial history & reclaims it through four sculptures of commodity staples.
“Cream of the Crop” illustrates the glass ceiling that prevents BIPOC chefs from being viewed as multidimensional people.
“Watched Pot” comments on the omnipresent white gaze imposed on people of colour.
“Bread and Butter” shows how the perpetuation of the “American Dream” romanticizes the necessary survival & pressures of assimilation that immigrants face in a foreign land.
“Don’t Bite the Hand that Feeds You” addresses the Indian farmers protests and the introduction of agricultural laws that privilege corporations, harming the everyday farmer in the process.
Hierarchies of Taste
“Hierarchies of Taste” critiques the divisiveness of the food industry by reinterpreting common food idioms, exposing how invisible barriers prevent food’s ability to bring people together.
