Comida Casera

“Comida Casera engenders trust between strangers. Once you sit at the table, listen and share, you are no longer strangers—you are friends.” – Robin Hauck ✨Thank you @misstropolis_og for featuring the Comida Casera project, and to @decordova_museum and @sarahmontross for your continued support. Thanks to all the participants for your beautiful contributions! Come join us around the table soon. Read the full article @misstropolis_og

Thank you to @decordova_museum for providing such a beautiful space and co-hosting Comida Casera as an extension of my Holding Water installation (currently on view as part of the Nature Sanctuary exhibition). Thank you to all the participants for creating community around the table, and for sharing your food, stories, and memories with such love and care.   It’s been nearly a decade of hosting Comida Casera events!! ✨ Started in my backyard in 2016, Comida Casera is an ongoing series of meal-sharing and storytelling gatherings honoring the people and places that have formed our sense of home and belonging. If you haven’t joined before and would like to co-host or join a future event, please send me a direct message. Big thanks to co-hosts @sarahmontross and Maddie Nelson!

“I made this apple cake when my kids were very young. It’s a spicy apple cake – cinnamon, cardamom, all spice. One of the reasons I was attracted to it, was because it was an easy food to make and share with neighbors or share in the community. In addition to knowing and being connected to traditions of food, and knowing where food comes from, I had such a strong need to have my daughters experience community when they were young, and have meaningful connection with neighbors because I didn’t have that.” ✨An excerpt from the Recetas de Casa Cookbook, supported by the @uslaforum Charla FUND. A project by @evelynrydz , photos in collaboration with @m.ltaing Recetas de Casa, is a recipe and story exchange honoring the people, places, and food that form our connections to home and belonging. Participants gather to share the dishes they are creating to bring comfort, nourishment, and healing during challenging and uncertain times. Link in bio to see more. #comidacaseraproject #uslaforum #recetasdecasa #communityproject

After Swimming and Late-Night Nachos for Boys, or, Nachos Chamacos "...more than two decades of hombre bonding over three simple ingredients and a ritualistic sequence of actions." ✨A selection of pages from the digital cookbook documenting Recetas de Casa, an online recipe and story exchange honoring the people, places, and food that form our connections to home and belonging. Participants gather online to share the dishes they are creating to bring comfort, nourishment, and healing during challenging and uncertain times. This project was supported by the US Latinx Art Forum CHARLA Fund. A cookbook project by @evelynrydz ✨Thank you @uslaforum for your support! ❤️ Link in bio to see more... Photos in collaboration w @m.ltaing #uslaf #comidacaseraproject #comidacasera #recetasdecasa #uslatinxartforum

@tuftsartgalleries ✨ Join @evelynrydz for a community conversation and collective art-making workshop centered on ancestral foods, cooking, health, home, and belonging. Together, we will experiment with spices, inks, drawing, and printmaking to create a series of images inspired by the people, places, and foods that form our connection to home. Participants will have the opportunity to create in community, exchange prints with guests around the table, share stories from home, and discuss past, present, and future relationships with local and global food sources. 🌱 ✨Register with link in bio. #comidacaseraproject #tuftsuniversity #tuftsuniversityartgallery 📷 Photo by @m.ltaing

Repost from @uslaforum • CHARLA 💬 feature: Evelyn Rydz @evelynrydz Title: Recetas de Casa, a healing recipe exchange from and about home USLAF is excited to share documentation of the artist-generated dialogues created by the recipients of the inaugural round of CHARLA Fund artist grants. CHARLA is the first of three project categories in USLAF’s Mazorca Initiative, launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing racism, xenophobia, and state-sanctioned violence impacting communities of color. Mazorca is generously funded by the Ford Foundation @fordfoundation . Visit the link in our bio for additional information and to see full documentation of this and other CHARLAs, and stay tuned for future posts showcasing CHARLA recipients! Description: In this multi-generational event, participants exchange recipes and stories about the people, places, and food that form their connections to home. Participants gather online to share the dishes they are creating to bring comfort, nourishment, and healing during these challenging and uncertain times. Recipes and excerpts of stories are compiled into a digital cookbook and shared with all participants. Recetas de Casa is an online component of @comidacaseraproject , a multigenerational project using food and storytelling to cultivate community transcending borders and divides. The project centers on traditions relocated from one table, culture, and generation to another. ID: Slide 1 - Dark blue background with “Evelyn Rydz” in white letters. An orange-pink speech bubble with the words “The Charla Fund” inside is in the top right corner. Slide 2 - Headshot of Evelyn Rydz. Slides 3&4 - images showing pages from Recetas de Casa cookbook ✨Link in bio to see more pages from the Recetas de Casa cookbook Photos in collaboration with @m.ltaing

Looking forward to joining a Curative Collective Conversation with Melani N. Douglass, director of public programs, creator & curator of RECLAMATION: Recipes, Remedies, and Rituals at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Join us this Monday, June 14th for a conversation about the Comida Casera Project! ✨ @womeninthearts @comidacaseraproject @melani.naim @evelynrydz "In this series, join us for in-depth interviews with the Curative Collective, a group of Women, Arts, and Social Change partners working at the intersection of food, art, and social change. From advocacy and social justice to healing and restorative self-care, this diverse collective serves communities throughout the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. The Curative Collective is also working on NMWA’s exhibition, RECLAMATION: Recipes, Remedies, and Rituals to make sure that the exhibition incorporates local communities and their perspectives. This week, we are joined by the Comida Casera Project by Evelyn Rydz, an ongoing project using food and storytelling to create connections and cultivate community." Link in bio for more info . . . #curativecollective #recipesremediesandrituals #comidacaseraproject #nationalmuseumofwomeninthearts #nmwa

Repost from @j.houton • Remember dinner parties? Evelyn Rydz has elevated them to an art form. Guests at her @comidacaseraproject events bring a dish inspired by a woman who gives them a sense of home and share the story behind it. This isn't standard small talk. Rydz recognizes that food can be a portal to the past, a conduit of culture, an expression of love. Over the past year, she's pivoted to hosting healing recipe exchanges online, and I got to learn about these projects and many other aspects of her fascinating artistic practice for a feature in @bostonartreview . Link in bio. . . Image of Comida Casera table setting @ccva_harvard . 📷 by @m.ltaing

Thank you @bostonglobe & Cate McQuaid for featuring Recetas de Casa, an online adaptation of the Comida Casera project. . Recetas de Casa events are free and open to the public. Send a direct message to participate in the next one! All are welcome. . . @evelynrydz #comidacaseraproject #bostonglobe #recetasdecasa

Thank you to everyone from east to west coast who participated in Recetas de Casa to exchange recipes and stories from and about home. ✨Grilled Masala Paneer, any shape Arepas, Baked Aloo Gobi, Galletas Maria con Guayaba, Gỏi cuốn, better than your sister’s Bread Pudding, Scandinavian Apple Spice Cake, Tio Pancho’s Homecoming Piñion, Healthy Colombian Moro, adult only French Apple Pie, Nachos Chamacos, Crunchy and Creamy Veggies, Braune Kuchen, Knock off Carbonera, drinkable Miso Carrot Dressing, Pancit Bijon Guisado, Salad with Berries, House Shaped Green Tea Cake and more! A big THANK YOU to U.S. Latinx Art Forum for supporting this CHARLA! @uslaforum ✨ Recetas de Casa events are free and open to the public. All are welcome. DM to participate in the next one. Image from last night: House Shaped Green Tea Cake, “Untitled or Why I Love Japan” by Zenovia Toloudi. @zenoviatoloudi #comidacaseraproject #uslaf #uslatinxartforum #uslatinxart #recetasdecasa #greenteacake #mappinghome

Thank you @bostonartreview and @j.houton for featuring the Comida Casera Project! “...food can be a portal to the past, a conduit of culture, an expression of love.”❤️ Also featuring beautiful photo documentation of the project by @m.ltaing ✨ #comidacaseraproject #bostonartreview

Join in for the next Recetas de Casa, a healing recipe exchange from and about home. This event is generously supported by the @uslaforum CHARLA Fund, made possible by the @fordfoundation ✨ January 23rd at 8pm - join in to exchange recipes and stories inspired by the people, places, and food that form our connections to home. We will gather to share the dishes bringing comfort, nourishment, healing and a sense of home during these challenging times. The event is free and open to the public. DM for details on participating (space is limited to 20 participants).  @evelynrydz #comidacaseraproject #uslatinxartforum #uslaf #charlafund #charla #recetasdecasa #healingrecipes #cultivatingcommunity 📸 documentation by: @m.ltaing