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20.10.2020

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Daniel Nates

Chef

Daniel Nates is head chef of Maizal and culinary artist exploring through traditional and innovative recipes the biodiversity of Mexico. As a son of two biologists, he is concerned in mapping the Mexican biodiversity, history and territory through food and creating stories through his dishes.

He has been part of the Colaboratory Kitchen network since the pilot in 2018 and keeps being active participant, especially in the Marqués de Comillas area. In the project he is experimenting with creating new recipes that tell the story of biodiversity in the rainforest. For example by creating oils derived from all sort of “quelites” (herbs) or tropical plants, and co-developing recipes for axiote in ice-cream, paste and crisps with local producers of Loma Bonita and Chajul.

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The kitchen is a social place, a com­mon place to gather and connect. It is a place to share not only food, but stories, ideas, aspirations and initiatives. Colaboratory Kitchen is an ongoing mobile and on-site project that brings farmers, scientists, creatives and cooks together around the kitchen table to connect, exchange knowledge and prototype new trans-disciplinary solutions to farming; a test ground for ideas that conciliate land restoration, conservation, food production and better livelihood in farming communities. A response to the lack of connection between disciplines that are key for new alternatives towards more sustain­able and just futures.

The questions at stake are: How do we bridge scientific and local knowledge? What kind of interdisciplinary projects can we create towards a better livelihood and ecological resilience of farmer communities? How can we conserve the environment and its biodiversity in balance with sustainable food production and pair local consumption to global demand?

We create a space for a trans-disciplinary community to grow and take action, by sharing and cooking futures together.

The project was initiated in 2016 as a collaboration between Cascoland and the Forefront Project (WUR, UNAM), a joint effort to design spaces and tools of communication and action towards strengthening socio-ecological bonds, south of the Lacandona Jungle, Chiapas, México. Now a days the scheme is being developed in three rural locations in Mexico: Santo Domingo Tomaltepex, Oaxaca, Xochimilco, Mexico City and Loma Bonita, Chiapas, as a collaboration with UNAM, local organizations and a range of collaborations from professionals in different disciplines.