Chef Njathi Kabui brings afrofuturistic cuisine to HKW—curated dinner and panel discussion on 18 July ­

As part of the fourth edition of the Tongue and Throat Memories series, Chef Njathi Kabui brings his afrofuturistic approach to conscious cuisine to life with a curated dinner in Restaurant Weltwirtschaft at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). The event features a three-course vegan menu made from seasonal organic ingredients.

The culinary experience is framed by a panel discussion as part of A Participatory Planet on topics such as food justice and critical consumption.

Thursday, 18 July 2024

18:00 Forough Farrokhzad Garden
A Participatory Planet | Consuming
Panel Discussion, Talk
With Njathi Kabui, Laia Ribera Cañénguez, and Gülay Çağlar

20:30 Weltwirtschaft Restaurant 
Dinner of Return: An Afrofuturistic Approach to Conscious Cuisine
With Chef Kabui
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Dinner of Return: An Afrofuturistic Approach to Conscious Cuisine

Njathi Kabui is a chef with passion for food justice. He is a medical anthropologist, an organic farmer and a leading expert in food literacy.

He is actively involved in promoting food literacy as a public speaker, writer, and a social commentator. Chef Kabui regularly appears on Inooro, one of the most popular radio stations that broadcasts in Gíkùyù (his native language) as well as on international media.

He has worked across many areas of the food sector, including farming, marketing, and food app design, reaching the consumer’s plate through his advocacy and eclectic food workshops and dinners that have taken place on farms as well as at non-profits, museums, academic institutions, and corporate events.

Chef Kabui has designed his own cuisine that he calls Afro Futuristic Conscious Cuisine and the approach of which addresses issues relating to climate change, health, and food justice. As an extension of this practice, in 2016 Chef Kabui set up the Kenya Food Literacy & Sustainability Center, which has a village and urban branch that establish farms and creates spaces to reflect on food. Chef Kabui is committed to steering a paradigm shift of food literacy in his network of chefs, writers, and activists, while also working keenly with marginalized groups and communities in an effort to empower them on food issues.   

A vegan three-course menu is served at Restaurant Weltwirtschaft. The chef himself hosts the evening and give guests an insight into his culinary philosophy as a contribution to the Consuming phase of A Participatory Planet.

The pre-dinner panel will focus on food justice and critical consumption. The evening takes shape around a conversation on what consumption does with the self, in which consumption is decoupled from its until now close relationship with extraction.

As A Participatory Planet moves into the Consuming phase of the project, we consider and foster practices of food sharing and ask questions about consumption and community. Food and consumption take centre stage while we reflect on our relationships to the earth and how it can be maintained in a more just, collective, and communal way.

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­Visit Information

Opening Times
Wed.–Mon. 12:00–19:00
Extended opening hours during evening programmes.
Free admission on Mondays and on every first Sunday of the month (Museumssonntag Berlin). 

Childcare with programme
HKW offers free childcare for many of its programmes. For further information visit hkw.de

Current information about visiting and accessibility.

Weltwirtschaft Restaurant is open daily, from 12:00–00:00 on weekdays and 10:00–00:00 on weekends.

Contact

Jan Trautmann

Pressesprecher
Lead Communications Officer
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin

T: + 49 (0) 30 397 87 157
presse@hkw.de