Conflict Kitchen Co-Directors receive Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellowship to investigate national potential; seeking partners throughout the U.S.

Conflict Kitchen Co-Founders and Co-Directors Jon Rubin and Dawn Weleski have received an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellowship to travel to select American cities and investigate the potential for Conflict Kitchen iterations throughout the U.S. Conflict Kitchen is soliciting interest for potential partners throughout the U.S. that can offer the community… MORE >

Palestinian iteration opening April 3

We will be reopening our Palestinian version of Conflict Kitchen on Monday, April 3. The menu will feature favorites from our previous iteration, including hummus, falafel, fattoush and shawarma. Stay up to date on Facebook, Twitter and our website for public programming announcements. The restaurant will be closed on Sunday, April 2 to facilitate the… MORE >

Last two weeks of our Haudenosaunee Menu

Be sure to stop in on or before Saturday, March 11 for a last chance to try our Haudenosaunee winter menu. We will be reopening our Palestinian version of Conflict Kitchen on Monday, March 13. The menu will feature favorites from our previous iteration, including hummus, falafel, fattoush and shawarma. Stay up to date on… MORE >

Conflict Kitchen Receives Funding from Sprout Fund for Immigrant Guest Chef Program

Conflict Kitchen is piloting an immigrant guest chef program that increases the visibility of and builds empathy with the area’s existing foreign-born population. Beginning in March 2017, targeted local restaurants will feature menu items each month developed in collaboration with a recent immigrant or refugee living in Pittsburgh. Guest chefs will work closely with head chefs… MORE >

K-12 Education Workshops

At Conflict Kitchen, we use food and innovative storytelling to engage the public in discussions about cultures and people that we often know little about. Our restaurant/art project rotates identities every three to five months in relation to current geopolitical events. Over the past five years, we have focused on Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, North Korea,… MORE >

Thanksgiving Intervention with Propel Andrew Street High School

Students at Propel Andrew Street High School introduced Haudenosaunee food and stories into their families’ Thanksgiving celebrations. In a series of seven interactive lessons with Conflict Kitchen, students compared Haudenosaunee and American identity, cuisine and traditions of giving thanks. On Thanksgiving, they presented these reflections to their families, along with bowls of ogösase:’, a succotash… MORE >

Taste The World Lunch Club at Propel Montour

Conflict Kitchen worked with Mrs. Doyle’s middle school students in the Taste the World Lunch Club at Propel Montour. Every week, these students partake in dishes from around the world. In January 2017, these students sampled the a local cuisine, the food of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. At our first visit, Education Director Blaine Siegel dined with the Lunch Club while discussing… MORE >

Exploratory Cooking Class with the Environmental Charter School

The Environmental Charter School runs an Exploratory Cooking Class in which middle school students research a different dish each week. Throughout the week, students shop for ingredients, cook the dish and document the experience in recipe books.  Conflict Kitchen co-taught the class for a week as students learned about the preparation and cultural significance of ogösäse:’, a… MORE >

VOTE to fund Conflict Kitchen’s Guest Chef Program

Conflict Kitchen is excited to announce our Guest Chef Program, a project pilot that has been submitted to The Sprout Fund’s 100 Days of US initiative. We are asking Conflict Kitchen’s supporters to like our guest chef program on the 100 Days of US website and share our project with your network.   In partnership with… MORE >