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+ | For many people, FoAM equals food. Food gathering as performance art, | ||
+ | preparation as design-science, | ||
+ | distribution as participatory economics. Beside being self-taught cooks | ||
+ | and foodies, we are authentic 'food geeks' | ||
+ | culinology (or the ' | ||
+ | and economic aspects of food, we work to demystify the processes of food | ||
+ | and food systems. | ||
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+ | Food grows from our relationship with the environment and it should be | ||
+ | cherished and respected as such. Living in urban surroundings, | ||
+ | people have forgotten that our roofs, walls and basements can become | ||
+ | edible landscapes. Beside re-learning how to grow our own food in | ||
+ | permaculture gardens of varying scales, we're also looking at the | ||
+ | possibilities for wild-food gathering, alternative trading routes, | ||
+ | nomadic kitchens, as well as designing no-waste cycles of food | ||
+ | preparation, | ||
+ | understanding of the substances and processes that make up our diets | ||
+ | will become an essential skill in the increasingly turbulent | ||
+ | environments. On the one hand, we can have a better grasp on traditions, | ||
+ | in order to keep them alive. On the other hand, we will be able to more | ||
+ | easily adapt to new diets, or even invent new cuisines, based on the | ||
+ | availability of energy and ingredients. | ||
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+ | Looking at it from a social perspective, | ||
+ | fuel, it's also a communal lubricant, one of the oldest cultural | ||
+ | products, a symbol of hospitality and bonding. Shared food rituals (from | ||
+ | simple lunches to festive banquets) can bond a diverse group of people | ||
+ | together better than most verbal or visual communication. Eating a | ||
+ | wholesome meal together is associated with physical, but also | ||
+ | psychological pleasure, abundance or even play. The entire process of | ||
+ | turning growing things into mouth-watering dishes can be filled with | ||
+ | excitement. At FoAM, we incorporate food into everything we do: from | ||
+ | transdisciplinary team-building, | ||
+ | meetings. We start in the wild, move onto farmers' | ||
+ | relationships with co-ops around the world, or ' | ||
+ | kitchen-style chemistry labs. We then proceed with meticulous food | ||
+ | experiments; | ||
+ | exploring ‘time-based’ textures, pairing flavours based on their | ||
+ | chemical constituents, | ||
+ | dishes that can nourish people' | ||
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+ | As the gastronome Brilliat-Savarin noted three centuries ago, “the | ||
+ | discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery | ||
+ | of a new star”. |