Angela Bitar

My project explores the ritual of preparing food at home as a way of bringing back authenticity into our lives. The Cookit is a set of essential kitchenware that promotes the adoption of home cooking rituals among urban cooking neophytes and is aimed at improving daily one’s emotional well-being. Cookit merges efficiency and playfulness to shift the mundane process of meal preparation into an enhanced sensory experience. Through suggestive typologies, this family of objects celebrates sensory interactions with fresh ingredients, enhancing the preparation phase of the cooking cycle. By merging complementary typologies of conventional kitchen utensils, the kit forms a compact, portable set for meal preparation that revisits how we approach cooking tasks. For each task, there is a tool and a sensory attribution that complements the ingredients. The Cookit includes a press, a grater, a measuring spoon, a cutting board and a strainer. The components work individually for functional and sensory purposes and come together as a family for compact storage and portability. The kit’s portability entails sociability as it adapts to the mobile lifestyle of the user, serving as a companion on a trip or for a fun cooking experience at a friend’s house.