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Dear Readers,
We all need food. But eating does not merely entail a primitive action of devouring or consuming, of providing fuel for a body that would otherwise become evermore fatigued. Eating is not just physiological. It is social, personal, emotional, cultural and political.
As our planet’s population is growing while its resources are decreasing (after all, we should not be surprised that industrial and animal agriculture produce more than 65% of the world’s nitrous oxide emissions), we are faced with a pressing reminder: That we must act and come up with new solutions when it comes to the ways we produce and consume food. With a natural ecosystem that has become more fragile than ever, we might not have a choice but to embrace new experimental forms of growing and eating food.
Laura from Kajet (Bucharest)
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Top Image: UKRAINE / The trader selling melons on the streets of Ukraine. From the series about summer evenings - Bitter Honeydew. Kirill Golovchenko.
Bottom Image: ITALY / Pitted, peeled peaches on their way to the quality control point before being transformed into purée. Nicolò Panzeri.
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Scientists in Germany carry out tests to explore insects as an alternative source of protein. From the project Food Sync, which offers insights into the food tech industry in Europe.
Ole Witt / Berlin
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The refugee camp in Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border in 2016, where food came from aid organizations and villagers of Idomeni who brought groceries with them, such as a sack of potatoes. The refugees had to queue for hours every day to get food.
Florian Bachmeier / Idomeni
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Nagybani, the biggest fresh vegetable and fruit market in Hungary, opened its gates in 1990. Since then, its size has tripled to 33 hectares. The buying and selling lasts until five o’clock in the morning, when the manufacturers drive home to continue working on their fields.
Balint Hirling / Budapest
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Eating competition in northern France. The event often takes place during local celebrations where all the region’s inhabitants meet in a warm and welcoming atmosphere.
Katherine Longly / Brussels
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This photo was taken in 2012 in a village in southern Bulgaria after a quick impromptu breakfast eaten by a mother and daughter. The two women's work shifts last from 5 am to 1 pm, after which they rush to get down to the household and agricultural work.
Eugenia Maximova / Gorno Dryanovo
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The Venusian Kitchen series is a love story about daily food. The photographer asks viewers to see the food as a connection with nature, and a new chance to take care of our planet.
Elsbeth Tijssen / Amsterdam
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This collection showcases the various meals served by airlines around the world, from economy class to first class, highlighting the different cultural and regional influences that shape airplane cuisine.
Joachim Schmid / Berlin
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The box with candy that the boyfriend of 39-year old Heidi made for her. Only he knows where the keys are. Heidi can’t control what she eats, especially not at home. From a series about eating disorders in Denmark.
Nanna Navntoft / Copenhagen
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In this issue we look at food. We must eat to survive. In order to eat, we have to prepare, and before that, we have to get some ingredients that someone else has grown and cultivated. A mundane sequence of necessary but repetitive activities.
But what if eating is also a political act?
We usually do not think about the political nature of the meals we eat on a daily basis. They primarily play a biological role: Though they provide us with the energy necessary for all our further activities, they are not impartial. If we are privileged enough, the health aspect of the meal, its taste, and maybe even its presentation will be important to us. When shopping, many people think about the ethical as well as the carbon footprint of the food they buy. But what about the political footprint?
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The adage "you are what you eat" should be extended.
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Food has always defined political views or our attitude towards the world. Not eating certain food groups (or not eating at certain times) separates one from the other. Religious, ethical, class or aesthetic motivations may be behind these choices. But food taboos, along with the growing interconnections between cultures, are not the only challenges when it comes to the issue of the political nature of food.
These choices are also influenced by historical and cultural conditions, the heritage of identity with which we sit down to eat in a dinette or in another place because the place, method of serving - the order of serving to those who are fed, also have a specific framework, depending on the place in the world and moment in history. The adage "you are what you eat" should be extended: You are what you eat, and what you eat shapes your entire identity. And that is truly what you bring to the table.
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Magda from Pismo (Warsaw)
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“Kompotas” is a documentation of Lithuania’s canteens, an ex-Soviet phenomenon that can still be found all over Lithuania’s cities—if you know where to look. The food is often made following Soviet recipes, and the interior design of the canteen restaurants is out of this world, too. A comprehensive overview (174 photographs!) of traditional Soviet-era food, documented in photographs along with the people who make it and the trippy architecture, which typifies these establishments.
The project was made by designer Indre Klimaite, and photographer Isabella Rozendaal.
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THE LOCATIONS OF THIS ISSUE
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Photographers: Kirill Golovchenko, Nicolò Panzeri, Ole Witt, Florian Bachmeier, Balint Hirling, Katherine Longly, Eugenia Maximova, Elsbeth Tijssen, Joachim Schmid, Nanna Navntoft, Isabella Rozendaal
Text authors: Petrică Mogoș and Laura Naum
Editorial team: Laura Naum and Petrică Mogoș (Kajet Journal), Karolina Mazurkiewicz, Magdalena Kicińska (Pismo Magazin), Stefan Günther and Anastasia Anisimova (n-ost) and Ramin Mazur.
Design: Philipp Blombach, Ramin Mazur
Copy Editing: Ben Knight
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