Adriana Lintz

A Blueprint is a set of instructions that represent how something is supposed to look once completed, a set of rigid expectations. A Recipe is also a set of instructions, but for relationships and processes between ingredients. Recipes allow for opportunities of adjustment, endlessly refining our preferences with what we have available, what we were taught, or adding new steps entirely. We approach human relationships in the same way; not through a blueprint that assumes the same instructions and expectations, but through an ever changing, continual process of re-engaging in the kitchen to make a meal for the first time and yet the hundredth time. My work and thesis look at how sharing food and food practices with others as a way to perform acts of care builds and maintains human relationships.