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Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant in Pittsburgh that serves only ethnic foods from countries with which the United States is in conflict.〔 The menu focuses on one nation at a time, changing about every three to five months, accompanied by public programming, from lunch hour with scholars, film screenings, and trivia nights. Since the opening in 2010, the restaurant has introduced the cuisines of Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and Palestine. Referring to the informational brochures distributed with Iranian ''kubideh'' sandwiches, NPR described the restaurant as "an experimental public art project—and the medium is the sandwich wrap." ==History== Conflict Kitchen was opened in 2010 at a small take-out window at 124 South Highland Avenue, in East Liberty. The concept originated with Carnegie Mellon University art professor Jon Rubin and Dawn Weleski.〔 The first iteration, Iranian cuisine, was called "Kubideh Kitchen" and featured kubideh; during the Afghan phase, the restaurant was called "Bolani Pazi" and served bolani. The kitchen was supported by profits from the sale of food, ''Waffle Shop: A Reality Show'', the Benter Foundation, the Center for the Arts in Society, and the Studio for Creative Inquiry. The early stage was supported with a $7,000 seed grant from the Pittsburgh-based Sprout Fund.〔 Each re-design is assisted by members of the local ethnic community in Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Each of the new cuisines are introduced following extensive research. During a reach trip to Cuba, Rubin visited the North Korean embassy in Vedado.〔 He rang the doorbell, unannounced, and was given helpful advice on North Korean cuisine from a diplomat who answered the door. Over the years Rubin and Weleski have given extensive interviews, providing insights into their interests and aims. According to Rubin, "Conflict Kitchen reformats the preexisting social relations of food and economic exchange to engage the general public in discussions about countries, cultures and people that they might know little about outside of the polarizing rhetoric of U.S. politics and the narrow lens of media headlines."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Conflict Kitchen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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