 CONFLICT KITCHEN News reports from around the world. The USA is involved in many conflicts, a military presence until recently in Iraq, a peacekeeping force for Israel and in the Middle East, or as an ideological enemy with North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba. These countries many Americans only know as evildoers from the evening news. The takeaway restaurant Conflict Kitchen raises a cooking spoon against this and serves changing menus from exactly such countries. The goal of the experiment is to allow for citizens to discuss cultures and politics related to these countries. The idea is to attract customers with good food and then engage them in discussion and debate targeted at the knowledge of the culture and politics of some countries, such as Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea. A reporter says, it seems that this restaurant's idea exceeded that by employing food as a way to add a human dimension to wars and conflicts. So you order Iranian food or Persian food anywhere from five to eight dollars and they give it to you wrapped up in a wrapper that has conversations from people that are in that country. It features the opinions of Palestinians living on the West Bank and in the United States. I think it's really important that the Conflict Kitchen has created a space where we can have an exchange of ideas. In a way it inspires me to speak out more because I feel like I have to channel that fear that we all have a collective fear and just channel it into positivity and show that we are united. Photos of sidewalk restaurants are shown. Conflict Kitchen creates a space in the stream of daily life that challenges dominant political narratives and catalyzes cultural discussions that are often uncomfortable for Americans to have. Operating seven days a week for the past five years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Conflict Kitchen engages 200 to 300 people a day and employs a staff of 25 community members. Each iteration of Conflict Kitchen begins with traveling to cook with and interview families and local chefs in the country we will be focusing on. In addition to our food wrappers, the restaurant acts as a distribution point for a variety of interview-based publications that provide first-person perspectives on daily life and politics. We stage weekly events such as public lunch discussions with experts and expats an intercontinental dinner party between Tehran and Pittsburgh via Skype and a meal for 250 people that serve both North and South Korean food. I actually forget the last time I had anything to say about Cuba. We also produce performances that shift power dynamics by challenging any singular reading of identity including the Cuban speech, a video where a Barack Obama lookalike delivered a speech written by Cubans and the foreigner, a bi-monthly live performance where a foreign citizen speaks directly to our customers through a local human avatar. Photos of restaurants rotating identities which include different public events and performances are shown. Additional programming includes school curriculum which utilizes food and innovative storytelling to stimulate critical thinking, guest Instagrammers who are in-country citizens uploading images of their daily lives and off-site projects around the world.