Sydney – Kafe As Poume

Things We Miss: Community Feast

Kitchens, traditionally the centre of domestic life, served as innate sites of cultural, social and knowledge production. It is in the kitchen where habitually, the universal and essential ingredient of all meals was utilised; time. Yet time is progressively a fundamental element missing from our everyday kitchen and food encounters. Approaches to cooking and eating […]

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Singular/Plural Exhibition at 107 Projects

I am so honoured to be a part of Singular/ Plural during the New Beginnings for Refugee Week Festival. Join us for the opening on the 21st June at 107 Projects in Redfern or visit the exhibition before the 2nd July. Singular/Plural will showcase a diverse array of artworks from both recently arrived and established […]

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Watermelon Spoon Sweet Preserve Demonstration and Sampling with Kafe As Poume

Summer means watermelon season! Watermelon season means a Watermelon Spoon Sweet Preserve Workshop with Kafe As Poume New Moon! Watermelons are famed for their refreshing, delectable flesh, with little thought to the rind. Did you know that, not only are there many nutrients in the rind – but the rind can also be transformed into a […]

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Kafe As Poume at New Moon, Lewisham

**Please check the New Moon Calendar on instagram and facebook for opening times.** Channelling the spirit of the Kafeneio (Cypriot cafe) and it’s role as an informal meeting place for locals to share news, gossip and pass the time, Kafe As Poume aims to reduce the solitude faced by freelancers, part time workers, stay at […]

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Kafe As Poume: Coffee & Quince Spoon Sweet Preserve in Ashfield

Enjoy a Cypriot style coffee or herbal tea with a Quince Spoon Sweet (fruit preserve) on us in the Kafe as poume cafe/lounge in the Ashfield Civic Centre during Edge Inner West. Inspired by the Kafeneios (traditional cafes) of the Mediterranean, and the role domestic kitchens and cafes play in the social fabric of communities, […]

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Kafe As Poume; Gifts, Identity and Coffee

In Cyprus, traditionally, when you order a coffee or at the end of a meal you will be presented with a δωράκι (doraki) or κέρασμα (kerasma), a little gift. The doraki may take the shape of a small cookie on your coffee saucer, or a spoon sweet, cake or glass of Zivania once you have […]

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Kafe As Poume at the Community & Refugee Welcome Centre, Lilyfield

I am so excited to share with you that I am curating a series of workshops at the Community and Refugee Welcome Centre in Lilyfield as part of Inner West Festival 2018. I am collaborating with an absolute dream team of talented women including Paula do Prado, Rosell’s Creatures, Akisiew and Ladan Haghighat to bring you free workshops inside my Kafe […]

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Food, Identity and Movement; A New Beginning.

As much as I love moving, I love staying, and I recognise how fortunate I am to transition between both with ease. During lengthy periods of travel, I have moved, relatively smoothly, across borders, without having to validate my reasons for coming and going. Unfortunately, this is not the reality for most of the world’s […]

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Siggussū – Rohingyan Style cripsy beef with Sajeda

“My mother and father were amazing cooks. Especially my father, he taught me so much”. Sajeda is of Rohingyan heritage, an ethnic minority in the predominantly Buddhist country of Burma where she was born. In 2013, Sajeda, her husband and their children fled Burma seeking a safer life in Australia. Now a mother to six children, […]

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Community Kouzina Exhibition – Open Marrickville 2016

Featuring images, ingredients and stories, Community Kouzina by Eleni Christou, is an ethnographic documentation of kitchens and gardens in Marrickville and Kos, Greece. Celebrating members of the community through their culinary practice, Community Kouzina explores food as a culturally rich and portable form of identity, transcending borders through the movement of people and their imagination. […]