The RELISH consortium is a unique partnership, bringing together expertise, excellence, and experience to understand and innovate culinary recipes as drivers of cultural and environmental change. Between 2025 and 2027, RELISH partners will meet, research, and develop cultural and innovative programmes to understand and communicate the past, present, and future of culinary heritage. 

Funded by the European Union, the project team is composed of research organisations and experts. Organisations include Durham University, the University of Milan, City University of London, University of Alicante, Roskilde University, and University College Cork. Our researchers have a variety of expertise in History, Philosophy, Law, Cultural Studies, Languages, Sociology, Environmental Sustainability, Cognitive and Anthropology, all of which intersect with creative approaches to food studies.

We are also joined by technical partners with expertise in computational modelling, high performance computing, and digital research at Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon), and City University of London. 

At the forefront of developing recipes and creating partnerships between nutritional instruction, policy research, food preparation, health care, and implementing cultural values around food are RELISH’s food industry and culinary arts professionals from Fundació Alícia, the University of Gastronomic Sciences, Institut LYFE, and the Atlantic Technological University. 

Within the consortium, we have partners from seven countries (the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Denmark, and Ireland) and eleven cities (Durham, London, Alicante, Barcelona, Lisbon, Milan, Pollenzo, Lyon, Roskilde, Cork, and Galway). Our local and transnational reach enables us to work locally and transnationally to build on existing knowledge and test connections from theory to practice.