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| feral trade couscous |
| Couscous from wholeground wheat flour, rolled, sifted, steamed and sun dried by hand - a dying art - in the village of Khoukhate, Morocco. US Peace Corps volunteer Cynthia Berning designed the labels and printed them out in Fez, 5 hours away by public transport.
ferally traded since: 28/04/09.
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| | FER-1501 | | Association Ennahda Khenifra, Morocco to HTTP gallery London, UK | | dispatched 06/07/09 delivered 06/07/09 |
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| couscous shipment FER-1501
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| REMARKS: | 15x couscous travelling with 18x watermelon jelly, 8x moroccan power bars and 1L olive oil, hauled in the ryanair suitcases of couscous trader cynthia berning's parents, returning from visiting their daughter in morocco |
| QTY: | 15 units at bag each |
| FROM: |
Association Ennahda in Khenifra, Morocco
http:// |
| TO: |
HTTP gallery in London, UK
http://www.http.uk.net |
| SENDER: | Cynthia Berning |
| RECEIVER: | kate rich |
| REQUESTED: | to ship between 01/06/09 and 06/07/09 |
| STATUS: | delivered HTTP gallery 06/07/09 |
| MAP | route map |
| www.feraltrade.org |
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COURIER:
 Mr and Mrs Berning
kate rich
Simon Preston
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| TOTAL ROUTE:
Association Ennahda-Marrakesh airport-London Luton airport-London St Pancras station-Manor House tube station--HTTP gallery |
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| couscous Association Ennahda to HTTP gallery
1. feral trade sign at st pancras rendezvous 2. bill and carol berning arrival 3. carol berning tea 4. couscous trans pack st pancras |
| Shipping Facts |
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| FER-1501 import purchase & freight
| | 15 x couscous bag | gross | per bag |
| land and air transport khoukhate to st pancras station courtesy the Bernings | £0 |
£0.00 |
| cash paid for couscous at 1.50 per bag | £22.5 |
£1.50 |
| tube with pystercard to manor house zone 2-3 border | £1.6 |
£0.11 |
| walked to gallery | £0 |
£0.00 |
| total | £24.1 | £1.61 |
| | Courier Report FER-1501 DISPATCHED: 06/07/09 DELIVERED: 06/07/09 Mr and Mrs Berning Carol & Bill Berning, travelling back from Morocco with their friend Joan, met Feral Trade in the St Pancras station concourse Pain Quotidien cafe, overpriced but relatively easy to locate. They had packed their bags the night before to Ryanair official 15kg per passenger weight limits using Joan's portable luggage scale. Luckily Ryaniar didn't weigh carry-on bags so Carol managed to bring an extra 35lb baggage on the flight. The Bernings & friend had been in Morocco 10 days visiting their US Peace Corps volunteer daughter Cynthia, in the middle Atlas mountains. Carol had couriered over a commercial grade plastic sealer (for the couscous bags), from the US, at Cynthias request, to replace low-quality original bag sealer. She bought the sealer on amazon.com, it also does vaccuum sealing but the Moroccan women aren't familiar with the concept yet. While in Morocco they also rode camels in the high Atlas (touristy but fine) and passed through Casablanca (nightmare traffic). The highlight of the visit though was Khenrifa, Cynthia's host village, where they saw people plant the wheat with horses, mules and ploughs, and themselves learnt to hand-roll couscous (badly). The Moroccan women were rolling most of the couscous but all of them declined to be photographed. Carol has an eeepc for travelling (as does feral trade) & with help of Pain Quotidien's power supply transferred couscous village photos on to feral trade's flash memory stick. |
kate rich Secured an outside table at Pain Quotidien with Feral Trade sign displayed to attract couriers, a lot of other people came and read the sign but kept their reactions to themselves. Simon Preston showed up mid-wait. Couriers arrived successfully with giant red rolling suitcases, I offered them tea & coffee from Pain Quot's overpriced menu, plus 72 pounds cash as arranged for the couriered goods. The oil and jelly jars were meticulously rolled in newspaper, plastic etc. After phemononally slow tea service, we repacked our bags, and couriers returned to their train for an overnight rest in Gatwick B&B before flying back to Cincinnati in the AM. Simon & I caught Picadilly line tube to Manor House and rolled luggage along backstreets to HTTP, passing 3 magpies scolding a housecat enroute. At the gallery I unpacked the goods while Simon viewed the exhibition & bought a few items from the Feral Trade store, which due to having no cash at hand he arranged to pay for later via paypal.
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| freight and handling couscous to HTTP gallery sponsored by |
| | FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org |
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