ABSTRACT
Gathering around food is something that could be considered an almost universal pleasure. It is also a time-old technique for collaboration, brainstorming and experimentation in the social sciences, yet a surprisingly understudied methodology. An eating event opens up opportunities for not only communality and sociality, but also for sensory education. By extracting an element of a multisensory event or by making guidelines, this focus may mean that many of the more invisible sensing practices are brought to the fore. The recreated dishes are sensory impressions recalling the feel of the first warm styrofoam cup of the brew the people drank by the Hagia Sophia, the huddled sociality of the parking lot, their bottoms balancing on the milk crates. The recreated dishes are sensory impressions recalling the feel of the first warm styrofoam cup of the brew the people drank by the Hagia Sophia, the huddled sociality of the parking lot, our bottoms balancing on the milk crates.
