rebeca morreo

The Gramounce Book Club! An online book club for the food curious. A space to read together, explore foodways, and understand food beyond the plate, as story, as system, as memory. One book each quarter offered through a different lens, from theory to memoir, fiction to nonfiction. A slower way of engaging with food culture, through words, reflection and shared conversation. Discussions and questions offered weekly with one to two quarterly remote meetings. Sign up through the link in bio to join us for our first book! Learn more about the Gramounce book club our website.  Crafted with current AltMA students @becaboca and @pterodactylmilk #TheGramounce #BookClub #FoodCulture #FoodAndArt #Book

venezuelan sancocho: recipes as living archives 🥣 a workshop where we prepared a venezuelan sancocho and practiced recipe writing through sensorial inputs rather than measurements. when served, we added ferments made in a previous workshop with @inesns - part of the exhibition “this holds debris together”, the latest episode of our broader project debris spring school, which began last year in terra mamita, belgium. moving between prepping, cooking, writing, and later eating, the process followed the rhythm of the pot. starting our broth with frozen leftovers from our last year residency. while the flavors slowly deepen, we approached the recipe as a living archive. unstable and sensory. how can leftovers become possibility? what can a recipe hold beyond instruction? cooking became a way to stay with longing, anticipation, and transformation. sancocho becomes a metaphor: a body of water that nourishes. a way to transform what lingers into abundance. some conceptual ingredients: water as archive. leftovers as possibility. the recipe as narrative. improvisation as method. slow boiling as collective time. vegetables as memory carriers. writing as nourishment. thank you @josymarcita @steffiedegaetano @w.ko_zak @whosaidxe for opening the space, for the love and care. thank you @mavegc for your loving hands. thank you to my spring school companions that day @julianarestrepog @annaandrejew @mervebekkktas special thanks to my gramounce cohort peers @sien_vanmaele and @helene_meyer for meeting me on a sunny afternoon in hasselt + @orianadl & all the participants for cooking and eating together! 📸 @w.ko_zak

@thegramounce alt-master food & art, residency mexico city, in collaboration with @colectivo_amasijo and held by their affective network* the journey was traced to experience different ecosystems in cdmx: milpa alta, texcoco, the chinampas of xochimilco, and pedregal. we reflected on how to inhabit fracture and which bodies carry the labor of safeguarding territory. the land struggles. communities resist. here’s a small archive of photos to trace my own memories. however, i know words and images won’t capture the full scope of this experience, only time and self-reflection will do. some fragments: 1. expanding upward. food thinking 2. sturdy beauty at museo de antropología 3. eduardo abaroa 4. nixcome color palette 5. milpa alta 6. soft landing thanks to @colectivo_amasijo 7. the bowl of soup that made me cry 8. splendid maguey 9. collective gesture and pulque 10. texcoco 11. salt 12. pedregal and rocks 13. the bowl that kept on giving, tamales 🫔 14. delcy morelos, it was cold and warm inside 15. chinampas, xochimilco 16. abundance 17. generosity 18. carrying memories with beautiful people 19. josé maría velasco at museo kaluz 20. exploring my own vulnerability in public. presenting personal work -in progress muchas gracias carmen (@colectivo_amasijo ) so grateful to have met you! all kindness and inspiration.

latinoamérica supuso un temblor aka donde soy feliz hay sol, amor, ficciones y aflicciones. méxico me recibió un 15 de enero y, a la vuelta del reloj, cuando contaban 43 minutos del 16, nos despertó una alerta presidencial que anunciaba sismo de gran intensidad. gracias a la intuición canina de mi hermana @emedemarea mantuve la calma; unos minutos antes, me había explicado el protocolo de evacuación. es posible que, entre su contención y el sueño amontonado del cruce transatlántico, mi mente anestesió la primera sensación de miedo. total que bajamos a la calle arrastradas por lxs perrxs y en pijamas para compartir una angustia sostenida. cuando pareció prudente regresamos a casa. vecinxs siguiendo nuestra misma andanza. arropadxs por un desconcierto colectivo que se quedó anudado dentro de mí porque no tembló. un quiebre temporal a mi último día en ciudad de méxico. 8 de febrero, el día de bad bunny. caminando por san miguel chapultepec con @emedemarea después de enredar nuestra mirada alrededor de las esculturas de leonor antunes, en kurimanzutto. distraída plenamente. ocupada con la plenitud de estar donde quería estar, primero siento el abrazo de mar, quien me mueve a un costado de la calle estratégicamente y me dice que todo va a estar bien. y luego escucho la alarma, alerta de sismo. apretadas la una a la otra, miramos el cableado eléctrico expuesto de las calles de méxico, atentas a cualquier movimiento que indicara un temblor. pero la tierra no se movió y yo me eché a llorar. todo esto para decir que lo que ocurrió en el medio fue el verdadero tiembla tierra. tembló por dentro. gracias por tanto amor. tantos encuentros. tantos aprendizajes. tanto territorio. méxico, panamá. tantos recuerdos. pura añoranza.

Ayer fue el taller ‘La fermentación como metáfora’, guiado por Rebeca Morreo (@becaboca ) 🥕 Nos visitó una de las mejores fermentistas para acompañarnos a hacer un chucrut y tejer ese proceso con la escritura. Fue una sesión de trabajar junto a otres, picar, enchilarnos, presionar, amasar y dejar que todo eso se asiente para aparecer el proceso de fermentación. Gracias Rebeca y gracias a las bellas personas que conocimos ayer.

➰ some books 2025 ➰

book alert 🍌 uncommon fruits for common recipes, @_laurasavina_ and @olakorbanska (eds.) a project by @r_o_b_i_d_a grateful to have a recipe included in this publication. my sweet plantains are inspired by the cooking of my aunts and my mother (shout out @anageronimocruz + @lupegeronimocruz ) a tiny gesture on remembering, of pouring the landscape into the pot and letting it simmer with love. layering on gratitude, the first photo is of the book in the vitrine of one of my favorite bookstores @zabriskiebuchladen 🔗 in great company. paired with family conversations and a video of my return home, harvesting topochos. about the book: “bright orange like a perfectly ripe apricot, this small book is a juicy blend of recipes, memories, travels, tips, and musings on how to enjoy the sweet treasures we find in our gardens or at the market (…) whether you’re a serial fruit eater or someone who’s never ventured too far into this colorful, sticky world, uncommon fruits for common recipes offers the perfect excuse to take your first step into the endless universe of textures and flavors that nature has to offer.” the cookbook is part of the project “uncommon fruits” that also accompanies the new printed issue of robida magazine, devoted to orchards. melts my heart to be part of the extended family of @r_o_b_i_d_a , to many more recipes and books! thank you dearly @caffe_dora + @_laurasavina_ + @olakorbanska ➰

the recipe exchange 🪡 publication a record of “the recipe exchange” workshop series. this publication gathers recipes, reflections, fragments of thought, and traces of learning. it maps a terrain shaped by relationships between people, materials, and the rituals that form when recipes are handed on and reinterpreted. thank you to all the participants contributions for making this publication possible 🧶 and to celebrate the release, arepas were made, shared with ferments and other companions. i celebrated, mostly, from the kitchen 🫓🫓🫓 publication design: @san_ms printed in riso at las delicias: @na___toro photos: @pil_mdz in collab with @zabriskiebuchladen • @satellitberlin

the recipe exchange - a beginning with @san_ms the recipe exchange is an ongoing project, and its first iteration took shape as a three-part workshop series inviting participants to explore the immensity of a recipe, moving beyond the familiar structure of ingredients and steps toward something more porous, relational, and evocative. throughout the process, we approached recipes as gestures: carriers of emotions, moods, atmospheres, rituals, and ways of being together. drawing inspiration from rebecca may johnson’s small fires: an epic in the kitchen, a central focus was the figure of the “recipient”: the one who receives, translates, and reanimates what has been passed on. different groups participated across the sessions, creating circular exchanges. participants crafted recipes based on a writing prompt and then passed them on to the next group. these recipes were less about prescribing outcomes, with food-making as the central focus, and more about the experiences and encounters that unfold around the food, both within and beyond ourselves. in each session, participants not only wrote recipes but also learned a new technique. this experimental starting point and its materials brought a hands-on moment to each encounter, becoming the playground of the process. across three sessions we expanded from the domestic domain through to the local and regional sphere. to our workshops hosts @zabriskiebuchladen + @satellitberlin , thank you for the trust! to everyone who joined the sessions: thank you for carrying this dream with me. to san: thank you for co-creating and making magic together 🪄 a riso publication was made for this iteration — designed by @san_ms with text by yours truly, including participants recipe contributions, and printed by @na___toro at las delicias, in berlin. photos by @pil_mdz

reminiscing - ofrenda: a maíz harvest celebration, celebrated @shahin_zarinbal berlin, summer 2025. by @jesszt & @becaboca 🌽 video by @miriammillanarjona 🔗

@thegramounce alt-master food & art 🥄 beginning with a residency in amsterdam hosted by @mediamatic_ 1. one hour daily walk to @mediamatic_ the view 🪞 2. amsterdam history through food by charlotte kleyn 3. 🐟🐟🐟🐟 4. @san.serriffe 💞 5. lovely selection from @san.serriffe by @helene_meyer 6. ginkgo biloba 7. collective cooking. each of us brought an ingredient to tell our story, and we had to cook lunch only with those ingredients 8. hot oaxacan choco made with @chariot__la @_rosalee_ including tonka beans, vanilla and lavender hand picked by @cassidymcleodmckennna . honoring @josymarcita for the inspiration and remembrance of sarrapia 9. @sophiejolloyd_ made serving spoons on the spot, using isomalt, tamarind, lemon balm and bay leaves 10. dessert: smoked rice pudding with tonka beans, figs, red currant and pecans from saltillo mexico @wheelockss - shout out @beth_christlow 11. oui chef! @elyunk and delicious brocoli 🥦 12. assortment of love on top of @maikensstaehr beautiful tablecloth 13. menu!! 🍽️ 14. 💗 15. swirling in the holobiont, fermentation workshop with @inesns 16. borage growing in the streets of amsterdam 17. swirling 🧫 18. plantain leaves - musa paradisiaca in ruigoord! 19. ruigoord 20. open gates for this new experience thank you dearly @thegramounce 🧃 @noramutcho @inesns @noajansma @kevin.bello.art @barneypau @ines.coelho.da.silva and to all my fellow companions joining this journey 🎐

ofrenda: a maíz harvest celebration by @jesszt & me, hosted at @shahin_zarinbal , berlin. summer 2025. the night was an abreboca, a beginning. a dinner honoring our bond with maíz and the friendship jess and i have cultivated. a continuum of relational potentiality, a gesture on reciprocity. jess & i met in 2021, with the idea of visiting her borderland garden in poland lingering in the air. finally i arrived in 2024, and we planted maíz for the first time shortly after. through shared questions, desires, and endless conversations, our affection has taken root and grown expansive. like this years harvest. on april 26, 2025, just days before my 36th birthday, we planted maíz azabache and caribbean maíz, already imagining the food we would prepare, placing our desire in the future. ofrenda became the altar for that harvest, its menu weaving in other plant companions. guided by jess’ loving curiosity and her hunger to learn about this ancestral plant, i began tracing back my own history with maíz, inseparable from the deepening of our companionship. ofrenda also became a way to honor reciprocity, as robin wall kimmerer reminds us, the gift of maíz calls for a gift in return. planting, cooking, sharing: gestures of care in the gift economy of life. in giving back, i found myself touching layers of who i hope to become: softer, rooted, observant, a good friend, a curious being moving through this spiral of life. thank you, maíz. + thank you @jesszt , for your honesty, generosity, laughter, and for letting me learn from you in the garden, a true gift. thank you @shahin_zarinbal , for your understanding. thank you @miriammillanarjona , who says yes to everything without me even asking, a life companion. thank you @orianadl @terratorio_ for listening and crafting luminous maíz ceramics for the altar. thank you for your hands and presence @mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmae thank you @luckyyoustudios for lending containers that held our food. thank you maíz sisters @anaodermatt @gabriela_a_z @margauxschwab we honor your milpas and our shared conversations ~ thank you wojciech & alberto: without you, nothing 🌽 📸 miriam millán arjona: 1-2, 4-5, 7-15,