This is an ongoing investigation conducted by BothAnd Group examining the complex assemblages of the Irish food system.
Meat and Two Veg investigates productivist food landscapes that are mobilized across Europe in the service of Irish food consumption patterns. At the centre of the work lies an interest in the ways in which state-funded food marketing campaigns signal pasture systems as both inevitable and wholly indigenous, while the conditions that reproduce them are situated in landscapes across the world.
The work explores the production of food around Ireland’s most popular evening meal—meat and two veg—through fieldwork, aerial imagery, and situated conversations. Our work revealed sites across Europe as primary locations from which Ireland’s ‘local’ meals emerge, whether grass and carrot seeds in the Netherlands, broccoli seeds in Spain or potato tubers in Scotland.
This research unveils the synthetic character of European rural landscapes and presents us with places that have been designed by and for our consumption.
