{"product_id":"kitchen-table-recipe-book-shubalakshmi-shekar","title":"Kitchen Table Recipe Book (Shubalakshmi Shekar)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo celebrate the Kitchen Table Recipe Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, we invite you to join us on Wednesday, July 22 for a community-based conversation about memories of food and home. Check out \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/omnivorebooks.myshopify.com\/collections\/upcoming-events\/products\/shubalakshmi-shekar-more-to-come-kitchen-table-conversations\"\u003eour event page\u003c\/a\u003e for full details. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKitchen Table\u003c\/em\u003e is a collaborative cookbook and storytelling project bringing together recipes and personal narratives from people currently living in Metro Detroit. The project began as a research inquiry into home, nostalgia, and the ways food carries memory across migration and everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeveloped through community participation, the book collects over 50 recipes alongside stories of childhood, family kitchens, and the cities that shaped people's identities. Rather than treating recipes as static instructions, the project positions them as lived archives—where food becomes a way of remembering, translating, and preserving personal and collective histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough conversations, submissions, and gatherings, \u003cem\u003eKitchen Table \u003c\/em\u003eexplores how diasporic communities construct a sense of home through food, especially when living away from where they grew up. The project culminates in a printed publication that acts as both archive and social space, bringing together fragments of lived experience through cooking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shubalakshmi Shekar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48068345037058,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/0463\/6790\/files\/1_af48451b-b956-4845-905f-834f7419b3f2.jpg?v=1782942571","url":"https:\/\/omnivorebooks.myshopify.com\/products\/kitchen-table-recipe-book-shubalakshmi-shekar","provider":"Omnivore Books on Food","version":"1.0","type":"link"}