‘Otark is a kitchen-collective founded in 2009 by Hadas Cna’ani and Charlotte Koopman, currently rooted in Het Bos, Antwerp, Belgium.

 

Besides a weekly Sunday Breakfast, Otark cooks in various contexts and with varying line-ups responding to film, sound, words, the weather.

Otark has a strong preference for:
Handwork / Close-ups (the near) / Off-beat (the far-out) / Slow-mo / Slapstick / Traditions / Roots and Leaves. 

Otark works according to the vershki i koreshki principle:

foundation versus the way the wind blows, home-cooking on the move,  and- as cooks do- works within a framework of a timeline, rhythm, repetition, seasonality and impermanence.