A living archive of food, memory, intercultural sisterhood, access, and heritage.
In 2025, I began a project for my children, who were moving out of the family home, attending universities and colleges, and beginning to cook more and more for both themselves and others. Food has always been an important part of our lives; my Nan has always been a great cook, my mother and aunts all cook and bake, and all of my children had learned to cook. I wanted to give them a taste of home as they moved to the next stages of their lives. By moving our family recipes online, I could make sure they had access to some of their favourite meals growing up. With this in mind, I began collecting our family’s traditional recipes, as well as our personal favourites.
At the same time, my partner and I, who are both disabled, began including recipes from the Mediterranean Diet. We were on a low calorie health-based diet, and this made me realise just how many adaptations we regularly made to our food, to the act of cooking, and to recipes in deference to disability. As my memory can be very poor, I collected recipe sources and detailed them online, in a blog style archive called ‘Our Mediterranean Diet’, which then became the first iteration of Roots & Recipes.
I simultaneously began a new hobby; ladies who pen-pal. New to the Med Diet, I decided to ask international pen-pals for their favourite recipes too, and to swap their traditional favourites for our own in a very female, home cookery based barter system. In this way, Roots & Recipes became a working project. A growing collection of recipes, letters, and reflections exploring how food-culture travels — and how disability reshapes the kitchen, the archive, and the act of sharing.
Food. Memory. Intercultural Sisterhood. Access. Heritage. Before recipes were blogs, they were envelopes.
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