BROUDOU is delighted to present the second volume of our magazine. This year, it is dedicated to stories that traverse the world of olive oil. 

As a collective publication, we have gathered knowledge and perspectives on this sacred oil from artists, journalists, anthropologists, historians, poets, and even an archaeobotanist. Exploring the various dimensions of olive oil has taken us back thousands of years, out to Palestine and Egypt, into the homes of diaspora, and beyond. 

Questions of health, cultural symbolism, nation building, exile, beauty, and homesickness weave through the nearly 20 contributions which are available in English, Tunisian Arabic, and French. 

As with bread, olive oil has opened up enticing exchanges with people from all walks of life, and we hope for these conversations to stay open. By sharing these narratives, we hope to foster collective practices and engagements which bring forth systems that enrich rather than exploit the earth and the lifeforms which inhabit it.

BROUDOU is a non-profit publication and learning platform dedicated to exploring the future of food in Tunisia.

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Pyeonsik (Picky Eating) refers to the act of not eating a specific food or eating only a specific food for various reasons or problem of taste.

It’s up to you to decide what food you eat. Strangely, the idea that you should eat well is prevalent in Korea. Perhaps it can be said that it is related to Korean food culture. In Korea, there is a culture of rice mixed with various kinds of side dishes and eaten little by little. In this culture, picky eating will be a habit that is difficult to see in a good perspective. If you don’t eat many kinds of side dishes evenly, there will be leftovers, which is an act that adults don’t like. Also, mechanical egalitarianism, which says, “What I eat should be eaten by others,” plays a part. Because Korean think homogeneity is too important, they often cannot accept the fact that others can’t eat what I eat. And also say “Why don’t you eat this?” and “Why don’t you eat this delicious thing?”

So, it is not easy to proudly say that you are a picky eater in Korea because of this view. However, there is nothing more painful than forcing yourself to eat something you don’t want to eat. I don’t have enough time to eat only what I like, but I wonder if I have to eat food that I hate while enduring this pain.

After you read it up to here, you’re like, “Oh, this person has a picky taste.” “Isn’t it just an excuse?”‘ I saw it exactly if I thought so. I’m a picky eater. Also, writing such a long article about picky eating is because I think the world is too harsh for a person who is suddenly picky.

Anyway, this book is a collection of ingredients that I don’t eat. If you look at the ingredients in it, you may wonder this man even don’t eat this? But first, I have to make it clear that I don’t eat this unconditionally. 
If the ingredients lose their original taste and play a good role in certain foods, I tend to eat. It may be a little embarrassing not to eat something, but through this book, I want to proudly reveal that I am a picky eater.

In conclusion, what I’m trying to say through this book is that I just want the world to be a little generous with people who are picky. Wouldn’t it be better to just understand rather than point your finger at picky eaters? It is possible that others may hate what I like or others may like what I hate. Just as each person has a different face, their eating habits are different. I have a very pleasant diet even though I have a lot of food that I don’t eat, so I want you to admit that it’s different sometimes. It’s just my little wish. Anyway, if you have read up to here, I hope you will accept this book with a generous heart. We are now starting to talk about the ingredients we saw from the perspective of a picky eater.

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You are what you eat! Food is not only a basic need, it is deeply intertwined with most aspects of our lives — as individuals and communities. Foam Magazine #63: FOOD! – The Nourishing Issue looks at what we are made of, focusing on the ways food drives us apart, brings us together and moves us further — all at the same time.

Food fuels us, heals us and brings people together. Yet there is another side to food, which is more political and complex than it appears. Nourishment, ritual, sustainability, economy, labour, culture, ecology, community, exploitation, identity, politics: The collection of portfolios included in this issue are a testament to the variety of visual strategies addressing a few of such matters.

Next to 16 visual portfolios, we are thrilled to present an interview by Siddhartha Mitter with Anna-Alix Koffi on her work and the newly opened art space SOMETHING in Abidjan, Ivory Coast; a thoughtfully put together selection of Algerian photobooks in the bookshelf section by Awel Haouati; an essay on illegal labour in the food industry by Gustavo Duch; an account by Iroquois scholar Atlanta Grant on Indigenous ideas around food waste and recycling — and much much more.

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS & WRITERS
Carson Cole Arthur, Clara Barbal, Joan Biren, Nao Bustamente, Samuel Bradley, Breadface, Kat Chan, David Chickney, Nha San Collective, Maisie Cousins, Gustavo Duch, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Laura Feliu, Gem Fletcher, Chandra Frank, Coco Fusco, Audrey Genois, Zahara Goméz Lucini, Rajyashri Goody, Atlanta Grant, Awel Haouati, Yining He, Chieri Higa, Hiên Hoàng, Hua Jin, Patricia Kaersenhout, George H. King, Kim Knoppers, Ana-Alix Koffi, Claudia Kussel, Charmaine Li, Sébastien Lifshitz, Florian Maas, Elisa Medde, Emily Hanako Momohara, Siddhartha Mitter, Paulo Nazareth. Beaumont Newhall, Ana Núñez Rodríguez, Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira, Paola Paleari, Sarah Perks, Valeria Posada-Villada, Peter Puklus, Rahee Punyashloka, Vivien Sansour, Stephanie Sarley, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Henry Rox, Amelie Schüle, Mark Sealy, George Selley, Sunil Shah, Aurélie Joycelyn Tiffy, Henk Wildschut, Guy Woueté, Gary Zhang Zhexi, Lin Zhipeng.

COVER
Sunil and Sulbha Dhiwar, with Tanmay, Tejasvi, Sourabh, Prachi and Vivek from the Goody family archive, 2002. Image from the series Eat with Great Delight © Rajyashri Goody, courtesy of the artist.

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DAVID HORVITZ. MOOD DISORDER BOOK LAUNCH
AT 11:59 PM.
IN RANDY’S DONUTS PARKING LOT, LOS ANGELES.

Xiu Xiu will have a gong to whisper into.*

Ed Steck will call in from Tampa Bay, FL and read poems over speaker phone.**

Michael Smoler will be telepathically reading poems from a donut store in London simultaneously with the launch.

Books will be sold for $15 us cash out of the trunk of my mom’s car. No receipts will be given.

* Xiu Xiu will buy dounuts for the first 21 people who whisper into the gong.

** Unless he falls asleep.

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Mood Disorder documents the propagation of a photograph of David Horvitz across the internet. The image—a self portrait of the artist with his head in his hands, ocean waves crashing in the background—was initially uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons, and placed on various Wikipedia pages. From there, the image began to circulate, appearing on over a hundred websites as a “stock” photo to illustrate articles on a wide range of mental health and wellness issues.

David Horvitz: Mood Disorder
With a text by Ed Steck. Co-published by Chert and Motto Books, Berlin. Designed by The Future.

35 × 25 cm
72 Pages, Staple bound
ISBN: 978-1-927354-23-0
First Edition (2015)
18€

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«5 PTOHOGRAHPIES — 40 × 28 CM» by Paspier

Consisting of five pictures, this big format portfolio presents the Ptohograhpies series Roches Mammifères — Dissimulaits, a naturalistic study of cheese in
the process of molding. In June 2014, the series got awarded the Berlin Art Prize for Best Concept.

The Ptohograhpies are origianlly from France and Englnad. They have been epxosed to the lihgt for the vrey frist time in 1812. Since then wtih a very sepcific tcehnique, they recorded in piostiv and nagetiv ways, imegas of objcets, persons, aminals, ladnscapes,
and ohter scenes…

Edition of 350

Price 45€

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distracted-reader #1 Mixtures: Xin Cheng and Allan Smith. split/fountain.

156 pages with drawings, photographs and texts by Xin Cheng, and drawings, photographs and texts by Allan Smith.

The title Mixtures comes from a 2011 Xin Cheng exhibition; in this publication Cheng mixes memories of a Chinese childhood with recipes for healthy eating, photographed pages of anthropology texts showing Mongolian Yurts, and knitted socks from Scandinavia, images of ingenious low-tech merchandising stands in Cambodia, drawings of stone walls, and a bread igloo.

Smith writes about the copiousness and fabricational inventiveness of Cheng’s practice, and about the accumulative materiality in the collages and architectural practice of ex-pat architect M.K. Smith.

Allan Smith’s ‘un-illustrations’ set old school ink drawing and comic-book sequencing to work on the textured ‘push and pressure’ of a densely textured world.

Language: English
Pages: 156
Size: 25 x 19 cm

Price: €18.00

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A feast is… Ida Marie Hede, Trine Friis Sørensen, and Ursula Nistrup (Eds.). Officin.

A Feast Is… a collection of texts and images that speak about processes of creating, accumulating, questioning and experiencing.

The book includes contributions by 26 international artists, curators, writers, art historians and scholars:

Aeron Bergman, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Alejandra Salinas, Cecilia Aldarondo, David Bell, David Shrigley, Francesco Pedraglio, Harald Voetman, Ida Marie Hede, Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Jeuno JE Kim, Jacob Lillemose, James Wilkes, Lene Asp, Linus Elmes, Lina Selander, Media Farzin, Mathias Kristersson, Mathias Kryger, Mikko Kuorinki, Miranda Trimmier, Nikolaj Recke, Paolo Plotegher, Sidsel Nelund, Trine Friis Sørensen, and Ursula Nistrup.

15.00 €

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Gastronomica 13:2. Melissa L. Caldwell (Ed.). University of California Press.

Summer 2013

Judith E. Fan Discovers Social Change in Peruvian Gastronomy

Kimberly Voss and Lance Speere Reveal Ethics in the Work of Female Food Journalists

Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis Examines the Landscape of American Food Allergies

Language: English
Pages: 86

16 €
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White Zinfandel # 4: La Grande Bouffe. Jiminie Ha (Ed.). W/—— Projects.

The Spring/Summer 2013 theme is “La Grand Bouffe,” based on the seminal French 1973 film directed by Marco Ferreri, in which food is “the last hope hidden in the despair of living.” Artists responded with loose interpretations that engaged with the rigor and discipline of pushing boundaries.

Contributors to the issue include Marina Abramovic, Agathe Snow, Aric Chen, Asger Carlsen, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Hans Ulrich Obrist + Simon Castets, Chris Burden, Daniel Gordon, David Horvitz, Davide Balula, Frédéric Malle + Sissel Tolaas, Ethel Rohan, Lucas Blalock, Luis Gispert, Luke Stettner + Carmen Winant, Nicole Wermers, Pete Deevakul, Raul Martinez, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, and Seth Zucker.

Language: English
Pages: 128
Size: 22.9 x 32.9 cm

20 €
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White Zinfandel #3: Food Fights. W/—— Projects.

Issue No. 3 / FOOD FIGHTS
FW / 2012

Since our last issue, we’ve observed the convulsions in the Middle East from afar and witnessed up close the incantations against Wall Street. Paired with the explosion of food as culture, with the elevation of our most basic necessity to a luxury good, this issue reflects an idiosyncratic year of massive change.

Cover painting:
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
Sticky Fingers, 2012

Special Edition Print:
Olaf Breuning

Special thanks to Alexei Tylevich, Logan, Adam Katz & Dina Pugh, Cyril Duval / Item Idem, Leif Hedendal, Victoria Gondra, Laura Dressler, MacGregor Harp, NADA, Dominic & Chris Leong, Fahad AlHunaif

Table of Contents

RUB YOUR FACE HERE… / Davide Balula
WORLD WAR 420! / Leonard Greco
CHINATOWN / Anonymous
A WEDDING / Bless
LAST FEAST / Hunter Hunt Hendrix
TERATOMAS AMERICANOS / Josh Kline
DHEA TARTARE / Josh Kline
PEDRO GADANHO / Sean Lally
UNTITLED / Nick Van Woert
JUST JOKING / James Gaddy
RED BEANS & RICE / Tom Sachs
VADER FRIDGE / Tom Sachs
SPICEY PAINTING / Marlous Borm
TERRORIST TASTES / Pete Deevakul
DEMOISELLES / Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
KERAMIKOS2 / Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
HERITAGE CURED MEAT / Mimi Chun
CANAPÉS… / U. Grau & C. Goberna
LET ‘ER RIP / Maia Ruth Lee
GRAIN(S) of SALT / Ryland Wharton
PENITENTIARY / Erika Lade
BUTTERY COTTAGE / Elliott Green
BINARY SYSTEM / Darren Jones
FOURCHETTE / Daphne Fitzpatrick
PETTING HEAVY / Annie Choi
THOMAS DEMAND / Friend & Colleague
JUNIOR SUITE / Thomas Demand
UNTITLED… / D. McDonald & P. Beckwith
TOILET PAPER! / M. Cattelan & P. Ferrari
CATCH & RELEASE / Suzanne Rivecca

Price: €20.00

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