The Planetary Sculpture Supper Club presents a collection of foods, recipes and stories that point to the varied ways that humans sculpt the planet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biosphere. In agriculture, sculpting the biosphere and scripting evolution is commonplace. Animal and plant breeders have steered evolution for thousands of years. With a dramatic increase in the human population over the last century, the sum total of decisions that eaters make on a daily basis means that eaters exert increasingly intense selection pressures on the diversity, abundance and distribution of life on the planet.<\/p>\n
Every time a food-secure eater chooses to eat one kind of food over another they make a small, downstream, but not insignificant selection pressure that privileges certain genomes to propagate on the planet.<\/p>\n
WITHIN OUR GLOBAL CIVILIZATION AND GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM <\/p>\n What preferences, constraints, biases or assumptions determine the genomes that comprise our food system? Which food system? How big is it?<\/p>\n What role should individuals, communities, governments or businesses have in determining the genomes that make up our food systems and ecological-systems?<\/p>\n Making the event come together was a collaborative effort, with indispensable help from Heather K. Julius of the Special Snowflake Supper Club<\/a>. She was the gastronomical mastermind behind the food and Head Chef of the evening, accompanied by Remy Jewell as Sous Chef and Guest chef Cliff Allen (Owner & Operator of The People’s Pig food cart<\/a>)<\/p>\n This is the first dish from our early investigations into Utopian & Intentional Cuisines. The Center is starting to scope out and unearth past visions of the future that outline how we could or should eat. Why were some movements and ideas successful while other\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s failed? What are the fantastical images of the future of eating that can help us think through the present?<\/p>\n For the Columbian Exchange dish, Brian Rudd and Michael Malone from the exceptional Gorilla Meats Co<\/a> made three experimental and delicious sausages; New World, Old World and remix.<\/p>\n The Columbian Exchange was a massive exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres (Old World and New World). It was one of the most significant changes in ecology, agriculture, and culture in history. New foods became staples of human diets, and new growing regions were opened up as a result of access to new crop genomes, technologies and recipes, transforming cultural practices the world over.<\/p>\n These three sausages are NOT an attempt to accurately re-stage recipes from a past era. These three sausages use the limited palette of genomes available in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Old World\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153New World\u00e2\u20ac\u009d before the Columbian exchange as a set of constraints to improvise within. Each sausage should let your tongue glimpse the flavor sets available based on the genomic resources available before and after this massive migration of genomes around the planet.<\/p>\n The history of gastronomy and genomic diversity is always one of innovation and conservation. What are the genomes and processes from the past worth holding on to? What new genomes and processes should we integrate or reject from our tables?<\/p>\n
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