Langelihle "Lady Day" Mthembu

Food researcher, music selector and social entrepreneur Langelihle "Lady Day" Mthembu is currently on a personal journey to learn the different oral histories of ingredients, recipes and food. Lady Day is currently investigating how, when displaced, we use food for comfort, to create & reimagine home recipes and share them with our communities. In her reimagining lives the recreation of our memories of home and possibilities of what was gained and lost along the way. Through a gastrostomy-centered approach and practice,she attempts to create intimate social spaces to share in people,music and food.  Food tells a history of the meeting and sharing of people but also of the intimate memories of a home. The phrase ‘a home cooked meal’ references food with soul and hints at our ability to heal ourselves.

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