chaos cooking

chaos cooking (uncountable)

1. (cooking) A style of cooking that uses different types of food that are not normally eaten together to create a dish. [from 1980s]
   • 2010 July 21, Sarah Maslin Nir, “Too Many Cooks? Says Who?”, in New York Times, page A20:

     All around the garden and across the adjacent apartment, guests spooned, forked, chopsticked, speared and, above all, shoveled food of all sorts into their mouths and others’ at a monthly event called Chaos Cooking.

   • 2011 June 1, Michael Hastings, quoting Natalie Sevin, “Give in to the green: Find your way to kale”, in McClatchy-Tribune Business News:

     “I harvested a case (about 18 pounds) of kale and called folks over for a kale fest, asking everyone to bring a recipe and ingredients other than kale – chaos cooking style,” Sevin said.

   • 2023 June 17, Erin Shaw, “What Is Chaos Cooking And What Does It Look Like In Home Kitchens?”, in FoodRepublic‎^[1]:

     With chaos cooking, almost anything goes, and it's more about ingredients and less about food cultures and traditions.

   • 2023 July 25, Joshua Hunt, “Chaos Cooking Is Taking Over TikTok for All the Right Reasons”, in Food&Wine‎^[2]:

     Chaos cooking, before becoming trend-ified, was born from the long line of chefs who looked in their fridges and thought to themselves, "Yeah, I can make something with this."