I thought the future of food would be cooler (but it still can be), Arielle Johnson & Angela Dimayuga
MAD
Sun 26 Aug 11.00 - Mon 27 Aug 11.00
To Be Announced
1432 Copenhagen
Poke your head outside our restaurant world bubble and you’ll find a flurry of shiny attempts to band-aid over serious structural problems in food systems. But an alternate future of food is being written as we speak, and it looks nothing like what we’ve been taught to recognize as futurism. A far-flung but interconnected group of disparate practitioners—chefs, farmers, breeders, and scientists (some of them are you, here, today!)—are crossing boundaries to lay the groundwork for truly post-modern food systems that are driven and connected by the multifaceted tool and pursuit of flavor. This highly participatory discussion will explore what flavor is and how it can be a tool; how understanding and emphasizing it can help us create more sustainable and delicious food systems; and open the floor to what we can do to strengthen these nascent interdisciplinary connections in an intentionally distributed, open, and just way. Bring questions, ideas, and disagreements.
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Arielle Johnson Director’s Fellow, MIT Media Lab Holds a PhD in Flavor Chemistry and has worked on flavor in various guises at Noma and MAD, at MIT, and for some other restaurants, universities, and television. She is currently a Director’s Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and writing the book Flavorama: The unbridled science of flavor and how to get it to work for you.
Angela Dimayuga Creative Director of Food and Culture, Standard International Hotel Group Dimayuga is an American chef and Creative Director of Food and Culture at the Standard International Hotel Group. As the former Executive Chef of Mission Chinese Food in New York, Dimayuga was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award in 2016 and named a 2017 Rising Star Chef for her work at MCF. Dimayuga was included in the Zagat’s "30 Under 30" List in 2015 as an upcoming culinary star and was also part of 2015 class of Eater Young Guns.