People's kitchen
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Volxküche ( VoKü ), sometimes also called Kitchen for All ( KüfA ) or Population Kitchen ( BeVoKü ), is called in the alternative scene on the left a regular group cooking that takes place once or several times a week, in which food is served at cost price or even less. The word is derived from the older term Volksküche ( soup kitchen ), the secular counterpart of the Christian poor feeding .
People's kitchens are mostly found in collective or self-managed facilities ( pubs , info shops , youth centers or autonomous centers ) with a politically left - wing self- image . In general, at least one vegetarian meal is offered, often exclusively vegan dishes. Sometimes it is also containerized , i.e. This means that food that has been thrown away from the waste containers of supermarkets is collected (because of expired best-before dates or similar).
The popular kitchen in the current sense is considered to be the child of the squatter scene of the early 1980s.
The spelling of the people kitchen comes from a declared anti-nationalist attitude, according to which the term “ people ” is viewed as a social construction with negative consequences and rejected as “excluding”. At the same time, it is a fun, idiosyncratic expression of the anarchist or autonomous scene.
The term KüfA for kitchen for all has recently been spreading, completely distancing itself from the popular term.
See also
- Freeganism
- Food Not Bombs (food not bombs) is a political movement that food distributed to point out deficiencies in the world
- soup kitchen
- Vesper Church
- Board (organization)
literature
- Hannebambel pub collective: The Volxküche cookbook. 2nd Edition. Alibri Verlag , Aschaffenburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86569-081-4 .
- Hannebambel pub collective: Volxküche De Luxe. 1st edition. Alibri Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86569-082-1 .
