🌾 ROOTS & RECIPES
A living archive of food, memory, cultural sisterhood, access, and heritage.
🏠 Roots & Recipes: The Beginning
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 the lives of my family members. My Nan is a great cook, my mother and aunts all cook and bake, and all of my children learned to cook very young. We are a disabled household, which I noticed impacted on our recipes, and the ways in which we prepare and make food.
By collecting our family’s traditional and favourite recipes and moving them online, I could give my family a taste of home accessible from anywhere. Originally, I began a blog-style archive, and began to ask friends and connections from all over the world to send me their family favourites too. It took me a year to realise I was holding the artefacts of 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 food culture amongst worldwide women, and how disability reshapes the kitchen, our recipe archives, and the act of sharing.