Amani Mohamed

Recipe Cards

The recipe cards are a set of 15 recipes that document Sri Lankan Malay food culture through the lens of memory, migration, and everyday practice. Each card presents a recipe as more than a set of instructions; it becomes a record of inherited knowledge, family tradition, and cultural continuity. Together, the cards show how food functions as a living archive, preserving stories that are often passed down through cooking, tasting, adapting, and sharing.A modular component is built into the system, allowing users to add their own ingredients, substitutions, notes, memories, or family variations. This makes the recipe cards participatory rather than fixed. The format recognizes that diasporic recipes often shift across households, generations, and locations, while still carrying emotional and cultural meaning.

“The recipe cards translate the thesis into an interactive and intimate format, where food becomes a method of archiving diasporic memory. By documenting 15 recipes connected to Sri Lankan Malay culture, the project preserves culinary knowledge while also making space for adaptation.The modular structure invites users to connect the recipes to their own diaspora, acknowledging that culture is not static. It changes through migration, access, memory, and personal experience. Through this system, the recipe cards become both a record and an invitation: a way to honour what has been inherited, while allowing new meanings, variations, and connections to be added over time.”