Fallout Food

“Fallout Food” is a collaboration between two working-class women, produced as a commissioned work for Trinity Square Video’s “Eat” themed program. With similar childhood histories – having both grown up with working-class, single mothers on a fixed budget – powdered milk and boxed mashed potatoes are just two of the memorable items from our “fallout food”-filled kitchen cupboards. As young adults leaving home, visits to local food banks and even shoplifting produce for dinner were regular fare. Today we have both become rather seasoned food geeks. Flavoured by the ideas of class, food access, nutrition and time, we interviewed ourselves and our mothers and came up with some interesting similarities and lots of differences in how we all relate to food.