Unwritten RecipesBy Nazlı Meriç Çukurova

Unwritten Recipes is a participatory design and social art project that uses food to explore migration, memory, adaptation, and belonging. For migrant women, cooking familiar dishes in a new country involves subtle transformations; ingredients change, tools differ, flavors shift, mirroring how we adapt and recreate “home.” In Tilburg Noord, the Netherlands, women from diverse generations and backgrounds participate in co-creation workshops, cooking together, sharing memories, and documenting the evolving recipes through text, drawings, photography, and gestures. The project culminates in a public pop-up tasting event, turning food into a shared language of belonging and celebrating the creativity and emotional labor of migrant women.