Cooked History
Welcome to Cooked History!
This online course, developed by Kip Republic & Food Hub, will teach you all about telling your food story. In this course, you will build your own cooked history, step by step, guided by experts Ira and Ayra Kip. We promise you: after this course a carrot is no longer ‘just a carrot’.
Why take this course?
This course is for you if the idea of connecting food to storytelling somehow fascinates you. Whether you’re a chef or a storyteller, do this professionally or personally; this course will introduce you to a new level of expressing stories through food.
Step by step you will learn what we mean with Cooked History, why it matters, to see your own history through the lens of food, to share your own Cooked History, and last but not least to create your first Cooked History experience.
Meet the experts
We created this course with Ira and Ayra Kip of Kip Republic. These twin sisters are storytellers, writers, food lovers and creative producers. In order to do what they do best - tell stories creatively - they launched Kip Republic in May 2018. In 2020 Ira and Ayra organised ‘Free Heri Heri For All’, an initiative intended to make the commemoration and celebration of the abolishment of the transatlantic slave trade (July 1st 1863) more inclusive. The success of Free Heri Heri signaled the need for a broader platform that documents and shares the history and legacy of Dutch food culture, with close attention to colonialism and migration. Kip Republic responded to that with a new service: Cooked History was born and serves as an archive of stories that preserve this history and its future.
Meet your instructor
Lelani Lewis is your guide for this course. Lelani will take you through this course from A to Z. As initiator of Code Noir, she organizes interactive pop-up dinners exploring the culinary history of the Caribbean. Therefore, she knows how to tell, share and develop Cooked Histories like no other.
Lelani is also founder of Whisk Food Studio, and busy writing a cookbook.
Lelani: "The more you try, the more you fail, the more you know which way you need to go."
What will you learn?
Course curriculum
Welcome to Food Hub
Hi there (video)!
Let's get started
Introduction video
Course workbook
Cooked history - what do we mean?
Expert video
Get to work
Serving food with your message
Cook Heri Heri
Dive into your cooked history
How food shapes our lives
How did food shape your life?
Sharing food memories
Discover your wider food history
Build your own food story
Curiosity and magic
Message + food memory + history = cooked history!
Walk the talk and cook the food
The thing that unites food and stories: sharing.
Momentum
Wrap up
Wrap up
Curated sources
Credits
We love to hear from you
What is included in the course?
➕ 9 instruction videos (including subtitles and full transcripts)
➕ A video portrait of Ira and Ayra Kip, the Cooked History experts
➕ Your personal workbook
➕ Example casestudy
➕ Carefully curated sources for additional learning
➕ Unlimited access (including future course updates)
Cooked History
Tell your story through food.
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FAQ
What do I need to take this course?
What do I need to take this course?
You need a digital device, internet and an idea. That's the beauty of it: you can take the course in the comfort of your own home, in your own time. We do recommend that you print the coursebook (which is sustainably designed so that it won't take to much ink).
How long does the course take?
How long does the course take?
This course is based on self paced learning. You can take as little or as much time as you want. However, we suggest you to divide the course workload into 3-5 separate moments.
When can I start?
When can I start?
Your course login will be available from June. After that, you can start any time you want.
What if I have questions?
What if I have questions?
If you come across any technical difficulties, feel free to reach out to support@foodhub.nl. We will try to help you as soon as possible.
