Mistooling the Use of the Whisk

↗ Social designer, food enthusiast, bitter reclaimer and researcher working at the intersection of food, ecology, and social practices. My work explores how sensory experiences (especially taste) can reconnect us to what has been bred out, forgotten, or overlooked. Through foraging, craft and collaboration I create tools, tastings and narratives to invite new ways of relating to food, the natural world and lost knowledge.

Mistooling the Use of the Whisk

Sept 2023

By going into nature, using natural elements to create whisks and other tools - working or not - we explored mistooling the use of the whisk.

Using found materials from nature, my dad and I created a series of whisks and kitchen tools. Some functional, others suggestive. The project questions how a tool’s purpose can shift when its form and material are reimagined.

The zine began with an 18th-century apple cake recipe using barkless apple branches, bundled together as a whisk, to create an apple cake batter. This historical reference became a starting point for experimenting with raw materials, improvised making and the blurred line between tool and found object.

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