{"id":4214,"date":"2016-03-22T08:45:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T08:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/?page_id=4214"},"modified":"2016-12-24T08:46:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T08:46:56","slug":"soylent-banquet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/work\/2016-2\/soylent-banquet\/","title":{"rendered":"SOYLENT BANQUET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>The Soylent Banquet<\/strong> is a cooking demonstration and tasting event where\u00a0common\u00a0ingredients found in\u00a0Meal Replacement Beverages (MRBs)\u00a0are prepared and shared through\u00a0slow and fantastic processes in a social setting.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The recipes in a Soylent Banquet build on the nutritional research of the Soylent community, but invert the logic of meal replacement, through a banquet that is slow, social and convivial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The participatory meal starts with a guided taste test of meal replacement beverages. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">The final course of the banquet \u00a0utilizes important\u00a0ingredients from\u00a0the Soylent formula, prepared in the slowest and most fantastic way possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the process of acquiring, examining and cooking with the raw ingredients of Soylent, participants can debate the economic, ecological and culinary implications of this high modernist &#8220;food&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">MRBs require a smoothly functioning global supply chain, and highly mobile, fungible commodities which can be swapped out and moved around the planet quickly. MRBs\u00a0break\u00a0down these fungible food products into their\u00a0components\u00a0in order to rebuild them into a liquid or powder, based on nutritional requirements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">In the Soylent Banquet, we have paired this reductive process with\u00a0the cooking techniques of\u00a0molecular gastronomy.<\/span> <span class=\"s4\"> In molecular gastronomy, foods are also\u00a0broken\u00a0down into more basic chemical constituents, but instead of being made efficient, they are <\/span><span class=\"s2\">then are processed through labor intensive techniques to create novel tasting experiences that celebrate the act of eating, rather than side-railing it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/work\/2016-2\/adversarial-food-design\/\">Soylent Banquet and Adversarial Food Design<\/a><br \/>Adversarial Food Design Workshop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Soylent Banquet is a cooking demonstration and tasting event where\u00a0common\u00a0ingredients found in\u00a0Meal Replacement Beverages (MRBs)\u00a0are prepared and shared through\u00a0slow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4217,"parent":4135,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tpl-project.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4214","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4633,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4214\/revisions\/4633"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomicgastronomy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}