Cay coritacho micunqui? (Is this the gold you eat?), Capac Inca asks a Spanish colonizer in a drawing made by the chronicler Guaman Poma de Ayala in the 17th century. This gold we eat, the invader answers.

This is the same gold that was eaten by the customers of the Spanish chocolate boutique where I worked in 2010, and where 24-carat gold was served as decoration for cakes and sweets made with Guanaja chocolate, another product extracted from the invaded territories whose specific name, Guanaja, refers to the island where Christopher Columbus obtained the first cocoa beans in 1502.

The power of colonial racism is also reflected in the foods consumed by Europe, in the forms of control over the production and distribution of this food, in how food is named and understood. The so-called "exotic" fruits, the explicit racism in products such as Cola Cao or Conguitos chocolates, as well as the drastic increase in the price of quinoa after it began to be consumed in Europe, show the politics of food within the current colonial order.

The series of dishes with printed images were presented during a performance action where, while they were being served, a critical, anti-racist and anti-colonial reading of Spanish gastronomic culture was carried out.

2019 · 16 printed ceramic plates