food

motiroti means thick fat bread

Food plays a key role in our projects. Some of our work is about food, and even made of food. It is a vehicle through which the inter-cultural practice of the company has blossomed.

Roti
The roti is a flat yeast-less bread, basic food of many South Asian countries, and the National dish of Trinidad. It's now enjoyed wherever descendents of roti eaters have settled.

Palm patted and pin rolled dough balls, cooked quickly with little fuel and eaten hot with eager fingers.

Roti wrap around countless tasty fillings, scoop up sauces and wipe plates clean. No two are the same, yet they all share similarity - your original hand crafted import. Roti are fresh, arising in cultures that do not have bread-storing traditions.

View Roti recipe here

Everybody eats and everybody cooks, it's a collective act. The sharing of food is a cultural norm amongst many peoples, as is the sharing of the preparing of food. Cooking and eating together transforms strangers into friends. It creates a unique magic of connectivity, joining peoples to distant homes and lost memories.

Food is a fundamental aspect of many religions, cultures and traditions. It has always been the drive for cultural exchange and the creation of new traditions. People can switch from one culture to another by cooking and eating different food.

Sometimes eating draws diverse and hostile populations towards each other and towards newcomers. The history of global communications, navigation and trade are manifest in the development of food traditions. From the spice wars, to the rise and fall of sugar, the potato blight to fish and chips.

The movements of peoples are mapped in recipes, and rivers of flavours yet to meet.