Sept 24, 2024 In 2014, Conflict Kitchen published There Is No Life on Other Planets, a book featuring interviews with Palestinian children living in the West Bank and Gaza. Ten years later, we are republishing those original interviews alongside new conversations with some of those same children, who are now young adults. This edition also… MORE >
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 >
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 >
After seven years, Conflict Kitchen is entering a new phase in the life of the project. We are closing the Schenley Plaza restaurant location, and our last day of operations will be May 31, 2017. The project is currently connected to a research center at Carnegie Mellon University and is funded almost entirely by our… MORE >
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 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 >
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 >
Purchase gift certificates at the restaurant, or they can be sent to you or your gift recipient directly. To order a gift card in the mail, email clara@conflictkitchen.org with your name, your phone number and the best times to reach you.
(Images: Brett Yasko) Pick up the collection at the restaurant or email clara@conflictkitchen.org to arrange a mail order purchase. $30 + shipping All four kids’ interview books are now available for purchase as a collection. Included in this set are One Day an Elephant Stepped on an Ant House (interviews with Afghan kids, 28 pages), There Is No Life on… MORE >
The management and staff of Conflict Kitchen recently submitted a letter to the Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in response to an image featuring Cleveland Indians baseball fans in redface published on the front page of the paper. The full text of the letter and the referenced image is below. We were dismayed that an… MORE >
We’re excited to announce the opening of our Haudenosaunee iteration. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also known as the Iroquois Confederacy, is a league of six Indigenous nations located primarily in upstate New York with historic ties to Western Pennsylvania. We’re excited to share the food and culture of the Haudenosaunee people and offer their perspectives on Indigenous sovereignty, economic and environmental… MORE >
