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Kitchen for all

09.08.2015

Küche für Alle [Kitchen for all] from Marc Menningmann on Vimeo.

Next to discussing and presenting, people also ate and cooked on the Degrowth Conference which took place in Leipzig last year. The "Kitchen for all" is a group of People's kitchens which cooked for and with the conference participants to provide food every lunch and dinner.

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