Eden Batki

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The Perfect Dish: Asia, Production manager and stills photographer.

https://explorepartsunknown.com/play/perfect-dish/

Little LA, Consulting Producer.

https://explorepartsunknown.com/play/little-los-angeles/

I have loved taking photographs since I was 13. I received a BFA in Photography and spent 20 years working in the editorial and art fields. Please go here to see more work.

http://edenbatkiphoto.com/

For the Art Book Fair at Blum and Poe Gallery, Salad for President and I made a Poe-Tay-Toe zine with recipes and served food throughout the weekend. International Breakfast (ITLB), a brunch pop-up, was a collaboration with artist Math Bass in the back yard of my Echo Park home in 2010. I have done various pop-ups over the years with the store Otherwild, for artists receptions, and as Oven Coven, with two other artists, inside a Haitian restaurant in Los Angeles. I teach classes and am a visiting artist for universities and galleries. I taught Living the Practice: Art and Food at Occidental College and I taught an herbal tincture and syrup class at The Ecology Center in Orange County. At Night Gallery I did a 4 month pop-up in a rented trailer called Day Cafe. A collaboration with Dawn Kasper at For Your Art was a 24 hour donut affair. A month long residency at Pachamanka Farm in Illinois had Eden cooking for groups of folks using locally produced dairy, meat, and vegetables.

I directed and shot this collaborative film about a plant communicator and soil healer. The film toured through a series of U.S cities as screenings in conjunction with seated foraged dinners. Museum of Art and Design (MAD), NY and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) were some of the hosting venues.

http://weedeaterdocumentary.com/

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Being based in Los Angeles provides an almost year round supply of free food. I find it fascinating and delicious to see how I can collect some of these plants and dry, brine, pickle, ferment, and cook them. I make infused liquors and vinegars. Some of the special plants that I work with are persimmon, black walnut, loquat, and mugwort.

Rooting into the earth, learning from others, and creating community around food is deeply important. I create conceptual dinners consisting of foraged ingredients. I worked with Zadig and Voltaire/ Vk Lillie on a dinner in Paris for 30, where we used only vegetables for dishware, a dinner for The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and for a screening of my film Weedeater in Houston, Texas. A dinner for 25 involved creating a menu where each course summoned the flavors of the landscape of each place the guest of honor had lived throughout her life.

I develop menus, plan dinners and events for 2-50 people, as well as deliver and cook in home for a range of clients. I especially like cooking on location in the outdoors, over fire. Whether it’s an intimate dinner party, a family style spread, or a coursed, plated meal, your food will be thoughtfully prepared. I create International vegetable forward menus that are personalized for each client.

Series of zines in which I’ve photographed and collaged.

http://edenbatki.com/filter/artist-books

Eden’s Herbals is the name I have gone under for many years as my business as an herbal syrup maker, incense maker (Foraged Fires), and herbal cigarette maker (Eden’s Herbal SMOKE).