Dumpling Workshop
In a traveling workshop, dumplings filled with insects will be created that challenge the possibilities of home cooking and question our regional cuisine.
Foto von: Jakob Trepel
We love to eat dumplings and to make them. Why don't we extend this love to insects? And fill our dumplings with delicious insect-based fillings.
In this traveling workshop, the two very different and at the same time very similar foods will be combined. Participants will be introduced to the world of dumplings and given the chance to design and try a wide variety of fillings themselves. By creating a pleasant atmosphere, participants are invited to let go of their preconceptions and experiment freely with shapes and fillings.
The dumpling workshop is intended to integrate itself into the local culture, which means that the language of the workshop infrastructure changes to the local one with each move. The tile motifs are also unique from city to city and are created in collaboration with local ceramic artists. As this is all very time-consuming, the workshop takes place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the third week. So there is enough time to prepare when the workshop moves on each month. There are 24 stations, so the workshop runs for 24 months. The approx. 12 participants are made up of 4 to 6 fixed places for local cooks, ceramic artists, restaurant owners and insect breeders. A further 8 or so places are open to all interested people who would like to take part in the workshop. As a result, the participants should be left with an experience and inspiration to pass on, but also an open, constantly growing cookbook.
The participants fill out forms in which they document their favorite filling, favorite shape and a dumpling, which are then scanned and published in a blog. They can then be viewed by all interested parties, participants and future participants.