Ratatouille on Vadrouille

Ratatouille on Vadrouille: Cooking Sustainable Food Together Across Brussels

With Ratatouille on Vadrouille, The House Of Sustainable Transitions, in collaboration with Cultureghem, travelled through four Brussels neighbourhoods - Kuregem, Brabantwijk, Marolles, and Matongé -  with a mobile kitchen. In each neighbourhood, we cooked a plant-based meal together with local residents, always for less than €2 per portion, to show that sustainable food can be both delicious and affordable.

Learning From the Neighbourhood

A central goal of the project was not to teach people how to cook, but to learn from them. Local residents shared their culinary traditions, ingredients they grew up with, and recipes that shaped their food culture. Their input helped us understand the diversity of food practices in Brussels and became an essential part of the project.

Workshops, Flavours, and a Free Recipe Booklet

During every workshop, participants discovered new flavours, learned how accessible climate-friendly cooking could be, and shared their own ideas, traditions, and neighbourhood food stories. The recipes that emerged from these sessions were collected in a booklet that we will distribute for free across the city. You can download your copy here. 

Sustainable Eating Starts with Community

Through this project, we aimed to demonstrate that sustainable eating does not have to be complicated or costly - it starts with cooking together, learning from one another, and creating shared moments around food.

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