Food is Never Just Food

Listening essay/animation (26 minutes)*
2026

We all eat to survive but what and how we eat is the poetry of our survival.
Here we invite the listener on a tour of personal culinary landmarks. Over the course of this journey we will encounter food as a language, a source of joy, a form of resistance and a way of feeling at home in the world. Here the act of preparing a meal is presented as a gesture of co-existence. We will encounter stories from ancient Greece, Meath St, Sandymount and north Kerry.

* Optional fully immersive experience! 26 minutes is exactly the length of time our flapjacks take in the oven, bake them while you listen/watch, recipe below

You can listen to the reading essay here

or

Watch the animation below

^{Written and presented by Jennie Moran

Sound design and audio assistance by Gareth Anton Averill
Drawings by Jennie Moran
Animated by Olivia Normile

With contributions from Louise, Trisha, Kathleen, Jason, Rose, Ola, Isabela, Cebsile, Jack.

Commissioned by Our Shared Plate and Neighbourhood Network
With thanks to Kildare Arts Service}

luncheonette complicated flapjacks:

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