Louisa Mokadem is a chef and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the role of skilled practice in human connection, survival and cultural memory.
She trained in some of the country’s most distinctive kitchens, including Brat, Sargasso and Updown Farmhouse, and now cooks privately for dinners, weddings and gatherings across the UK.
Her career has also taken in music and traditional craft. Alongside her private work she is a food historian, creating research-led dining projects for cultural institutions including Turner Contemporary.
Her work draws on vernacular history, folk traditions and traditional foodways, treating them as living repositories of knowledge that connect past and present.
Through cooking and shared meals, she looks for moments of communion with history in the everyday act of eating together.