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Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

The food is served out of a take-out style storefront that rotates identities every six months to highlight another country. Each iteration of the project is augmented by events, performances, and discussions that seek to expand the engagement the public has with the culture, politics, and issues at stake within the focus country. These events have included live international Skype dinner parties between citizens of Pittsburgh and young professionals in Tehran, Iran; documentary filmmakers in Kabul, Afghanistan; and community radio activists in Caracas, Venezuela.

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Do they serve severed heads on a stick?

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  1. jwm

    August 1st, 2012

    Insect, Reptile, Rodent.
    All on special this week.

    Try the boiled weeds.

    JWM

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  2. Corona

    August 1st, 2012

    “Heads on a stick!”

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  3. jwm

    August 1st, 2012

    …and you can be sure all the goat comes from the next village over.

    JWM

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  4. jwm

    August 1st, 2012

    Fresh buggered lamb with protein sauce.

    JWM

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  5. Mark Zist

    August 1st, 2012

    How come they are in business? I thought Obama apoligized to everybody.

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  6. uncivil & right

    August 1st, 2012

    How sophisticated, I’ve always wondered what boiled rat tastes like.

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  7. Mark Zist

    August 1st, 2012

    How come they are in business? I thought Obama apologized to everybody.

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  8. jwm

    August 1st, 2012

    featuring international fusion cuisine as well:
    Palm grubs in camel urine.
    River snake with fermented whale blubber.
    Opossum stuffed with field grass and puffball fungus.

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  9. jwm

    August 1st, 2012

    scratch that. possum’s off the menu, ya’ hear?

    JWM

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  10. reddecaesari

    August 1st, 2012

    some people never leave the reservation.
    i can’t imagine anything more trying than eating crappy third world food while some douche whines about economic inequities.

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  11. uncivil & right

    August 1st, 2012

    Hussein says he’ll drop by the Indonesian soiree so long as Bow-Wow-Chow is on the menu.

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  12. Stranded in Sonoma

    August 1st, 2012

    Who decides what conflict is? Obviously, it’s the retards that run this lame excuse for a hash-house.

    …and community radio activists in Caracas, Venezuela.

    What part of this don’t they understand? Unless they’re referring to these people. Which I doubt.

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  13. I Luv Bacon

    August 1st, 2012

    I hear they prepare a rather satisfying imitation N. Korean tree bark gaspacho there.

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  14. michellesbigbeaver

    August 1st, 2012

    If I open my freshly baked Naan (Persian flatbread) and I see a bunch of newly resected clitorides inside, what sauce goes best with them??

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  15. Moe Tom

    August 1st, 2012

    Do they spit in the food for whities like Jesse jacksooon did? I like foreign food like Italian, French, english, Irish,Spanish, even American. But that’s me.

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  16. innominatus

    August 1st, 2012

    They’re at war with the middle class, so they should serve meatloaf.

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  17. Unneutral

    August 1st, 2012

    I’m sure most of their items would not appease my appetite but around the world it’s usually the leaders that fight amongst each other, dragging us peons into the fray. Most of us plebes would be friendly to each other if not for the power hungry politicians. Islam is a different story.

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  18. Stirrin the B.S.

    August 1st, 2012

    Whatsa matter, you no like Sahara Desert Oysters? Off with his head!”

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  19. scribble

    August 1st, 2012

    And if the people who eat at Conflict Kitchen ever visited the countries featured they’d stay at a 5 star hotel and eat food imported from the United States.

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  20. scribble

    August 1st, 2012

    If I walked by “Kitchen Conflict” I’d think the place had too many cooks spoiling the broth.

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  22. scr_north

    August 1st, 2012

    What makes this place popular amongst the smugglies is the fact that they can have dinner there, exchange some pleasantries with some poor bastards in a third world hole and then leave and pat themselves on the back for doing their bit to drag down their homeland. Oh, and it means they don’t have to do anything else that would interrupt their hollow lives.

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  23. cfm990

    August 1st, 2012

    I understand eating here helps improve reading skills. After all, what else are you going to do for the three hours you will be glued to your toilet?

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  24. Chuck U Farley

    August 1st, 2012

    “…only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.”

    You mean like the ones Obysmal despises, like England?

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  25. Dianne

    August 2nd, 2012

    I think the whole idea of “progressive” dining in this instance is actually REGRESSIVE dining. It would NOT be progressive to have to go back to eating various types of worms and animal offal that third world countries are forced to eat to stay alive (when they can afford food at all). People ordering food from this place would die if they actually had to eat the real stuff, or non-stuff, that 3rd world countries actually eat. From what I gather, they sometimes go for DAYS without having anything to eat.

    If this place wanted to be truly authentic, they would have weeks where no food is available except grass and tree bark (i.e. North Korea). So you show up at their window and they say “sorry, no food, if you want to live the reality you’ll go hungry tonight.

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  26. Honest Politicians 4 Sale

    August 2nd, 2012

    Gluttons for punishment. Piss off a country and then order take-out from them? Hoe Lee Cow!

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