Koreatown Storytelling Program

Cooking to recover communal history

Invite a partner from a different generation, select a meaningful dish, and then collect ingredients, cook, and converse. This timeless practice is being used in a special project of the Koreatown Youth and Community Center in Los Angeles that knows that meaningful cogenerational knowledge sharing can take place simply through making food together. And they have been using it in their community to record and document conversations between youth and elders as they exchange not only recipes, cooking methods, and cultural foodways, but also communal history, life experience and personal memories.

Koreatown Storytelling Program

Created by Koreatown Storytelling Program via Katherine Yungmee Kim

 

How-to Guide

Browse this how-to guide to better understand how you can partner with someone in your community, and download the PDF here.