“Food is not just fuel. Food is about family. Food is about community. Food is about identity. We nourish all those things when we eat.”
Family recipes are rich with flavour, stories and culture. Join us in celebrating our community’s diverse cultural backgrounds through food. In each session, our guests will present a family recipe and describe their special connection to this recipe. Audiences can interact with the presenters and share their own memories.
When: Saturday 11 May 2024
Where: TUC Building, 2 Pulteney Street
Session times:
Morning: 10:30am - 12pm with Susie Ploder, Sundus Jamil & Corrie O'Brien (video)
Afternoon: 1pm - 2:30pm with Aunty Kim Saunders, Cheryl Laffernis & Alain Yetendje (video)
Refreshments provided, registrations essential.
Audience Participation: You’re Invited
Audience members are also invited to bring along a recipe, a family heirloom utensil or a photo that represents a special ‘food memory’ for you and your family. Audience contributions will be added to our Recipe Wall on the day.
Tastes & Tales + Taree Universities Campus
Tastes & Tales is an initiative by TUC to further strengthen the learning culture of the MidCoast region. Our mission is to build and support the higher educational aspirations of our young people. We can only achieve that through stronger, connected communities. As MidCoast is becoming home to families from diverse backgrounds, we aim to strengthen connections among cultures.
Tastes & Tales will showcase stories of food. Our families' recipes are rich with flavour, stories, and culture. We want to use a strength-based approach of using the expertise of our cultural communities to create avenues for them to engage with the broader community. Moreover, as we know, food can bring people together.
At this event MidCoast residents will present their family recipes and their special connections to the recipe. The audience will get the opportunity to listen to these narratives, connect with them and share their memories.
Through this creative project, we intend to create spaces for diverse cultures to come together and co-create a stronger community.