Forks Without Borders

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French Cultural Center, 6320 Pleasant Pines Dr. Raleigh NC 27613

Dust off your apron (or at least your cutting board) and join us for Fourchettes Sans Frontière (Forks Without Borders), a potluck-style food festival where we travel the world without jet lag, baggage fees, or lost passports.

Participants bring a dish inspired by a region anywhere on Earth, plus the recipe and a tiny backstory. Then we mingle (preferably in French) and pretend we’re very cultured while going back for seconds.

This is not a cooking competition. Just a delicious excuse to explore the planet one bite at a time.
Bilingual, free and open to all

How It Works 

  • Pick a region or country you love, visited, or randomly Googled at midnight.
  • Bring a homemade or assembled dish, drink, bread, salad, or dessert inspired by that place.
  • Bring the recipe and a short note about it - all on 1 page.
  • Portions are for tasting, not feeding a small army - think “samples,” not “Thanksgiving.”

You do not need to be a chef. If your relationship with your oven is mostly decorative, you’re still welcome. Easy, low-stress contributions include: drinks, dips, breads, assembled plates and no-bake desserts.

If you don’t have a regional specialty, adopt a region. Travel by imagination. No vaccines required.

Recipes Are the Real Souvenir

Everyone brings:

  • Dish name & region
  • Ingredients / recipe
  • 2-3 sentences about the dish - or why you picked it

We may collect them into a mini Forks Without Borders Recipe Book, so your culinary world tour can continue at home in sweatpants.  



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