Here are some food related texts by Jennie Moran
food is never just food
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.
You can listen to the reading essay here (26 minutes)
or
Watch the animation below
Written and presented by Jennie MoranSound design and audio assistance by Gareth Anton Averill, drawings by Jennie Moran, animated by Olivia Normile. Commissioned by Our Shared Plate and Neighbourhood Network with thanks to Kildare Arts Service. With contributions from Louise, Trisha, Kathleen, Jason, Rose, Ola, Isabela, Cebsile, Jack.
the rescue will begin in its own time
on prometheus, covid and fennel stalks
JM reading aloud version

enter quickly for i am afraid of my happiness
with dance artist aoibinn o dea & videographer cian brennan | commissioned by photoireland festival
food as a manifestation of defiance
eating in the irish direct provision system, a dead zone of gustatory placelessness
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* JM reading aloud version (please see PDF above for references etc) commensality
an ordinance of pottage - letter to MS163

in memory’s kitchen, a concentration camp recipe collection

eating without a mouth - food in books
our mother our life - brief celebration of corn


