As we begin our research for our DA4GA project, Edible Time Machine, we are putting the finishing touches on the EDIBLE exhibition at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. Three of the projects we are exhibiting in the show should give some indication of the direction we will be heading in over the next few [...]
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Food Lab Bangalore
Over the next 3 weeks the Center for Genomic Gastronomy is holding a workshop with sophomores from the Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology in Bangalore, India. The students have signed up for their workshop because they are interested in food and food culture. Working with two researchers from the Center the students will [...]
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Rasam Deconstructed
If cheese varieties are set in stone, with PDOs protecting their process Rasam is an open source culinary ecology. A little of this and a little of that, what is in season, what is available etc. FoodLab Bangalore – is a 3 week workshop the Center for Genomic Gastronomy conducted with sophomores from the Srishti [...]
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Cheese as an Appropriate Biotechnology?
One of the Center’s mandates is to study the biotechnologies that make up human food systems. Cheese is one of the earliest, non-obvious and most widespread biotechnologies in use on the planet. For the Planetary Sculpture Supper Club held in Portland, OR we served three regionally produced cheeses (based on our research from Cheese Wrestling.) [...]
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Fish Tomato (Missing)
The Center recently held it’s first Planetary Sculpture Supper Club. We wanted to commemorate our fruitless but ongoing search for the Fish Tomato. Heather was head chef for the evening and wrote: Genomic Gastronomy wanted to draw attention to the “search for the fish tomato,” a tomato genetically engineered with fish genes in an effort [...]
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Planetary Sculpture Supper Club
The Center for Genomic Gastronomy presents: THE PLANETARY SCULPTURE SUPPER CLUB hosted by: RECESS when: Start 7pm, 28th June 2011 where: RECESS, 1127 SE 10th Ave, Portland, OR 97214 cost: $25 How have our foodways sculpted the planet? This culinary event offers eaters a chance to explore recipes and taste-test research about the genomes and [...]
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Genomic Gastronomy at Church!
This Sunday the Center spent the day at Church! a semi-regular gathering of artists, crafters and entrepreneurs, in Portland, Ore., Or as the organizers write: A ritualistic Sunday gathering to open dialogue in Portland’s creative community and expand on the narrow avenues that already exist for showing work. A gathering where nothing is sold, CHURCH! [...]
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Genomic Gastronomy hits the mainstream & Cat Urine Beer
From The Penfield Post: OK, class, it’s time to get educated on hops, and your teacher is Jim Koch. Koch, founder and brewer at Samuel Adams, has released a new 12-pack that will help educate everyone on the various flavors different hops can bring to a beer with the Latitude 48 Deconstructed 12-pack. The 12-pack [...]
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