about this book

The cookbook, There Is in the Kitchen, is a compilation of short stories detailing Charlotte Koopmans’ personal culinary experiences. It serves as a resource for future master classes on food and nourishment, as well as anyone eager to enhance their kitchen skills.

Charlotte Koopman (1975, Groningen, NL) is co-founder of the kitchen collective Otark, established in 2009. Besides cooking a weekly Sunday breakfast for 13 years, Otark cooks in different rhythms and contexts and with changing line-ups, responding to film, sound, language, the weather. Otark has a strong preference for Handwork / Close-ups (the near) / Off-beat (the far out) / Slow-mo / Slapstick / Roots and Leaves. Otark works with foundation versus the wind, home cooking on the go, and works, like cooks do, within the framework of a timeline, rhythm, repetition, seasonality and transience. Charlotte Koopman writes, reads, draws and photographs, but always from the kitchen.

This book was selected by Tique for Objects & Sounds.