Thursday, March 12, 2009

Cooking randomly: (after rirkrit tiravanija)


go to your grocery store. photograph the outside.
go to isle 3. halfway down the isle on the right side, pick a food item.
(if isle is not food items, go to the next isle up that is food, 4 then 5...)
do the same on isle 6.
if your grocery store is teeny, (under 6 isles) get something 5 feet down the 1st isle and 2 feet down the second.
go to the produce section. starting at the very left of the produce, pick the 2nd, and 6th items in the middle-height section, and the 8th thing over high up.

photograph each item in its spot in the store, and all together on your kitchen table.

make a meal that includes all of the random ingredients, photograph it and share it with your friends.

2 comments:

  1. Interesting idea!
    The word "random" is always fascinating, isn't it?
    So many people in math, science, and arts, have been trying to find it, define it, play with it, yet I don't think anyone really grabbed a true piece of "random". Is there a such thing as TRUE RANDOM anyway or is it just a glimpse of a PERFECT design by what?!

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  2. Hi,

    My grocery store doesn't even have isles :-)
    Only the supermarket.
    I wonder how many people have lost their friends after cooking this meal.... :-)

    Kind regards,

    José

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