http://www.culiblog.org Food, food culture, food as culture and the cultures that grow our food Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:50:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Market of the Future poster-child Juli Mata You're probably wondering how the future turned out. Last weekend's was a culmination of the test-phase with FREEHOUSE's de Markt van Morgen / the Market of the Future, in Rotterdam Zuid's Afrikaanderwijk. Lucky Mi Fortune Cooking has been experimenting the past months with a ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/06/speaking-of-the-future-how-bout-the-market/ Market folk, people from Rotterdam's Afrikaanderbuurt and artists renew one of the Netherlands' largest open-air markets, the Afrikaandermarkt. My involvement in this mega project is one of the reasons I've written so little in this blog the past year. So much to write about, but no time to write. I've ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/06/rethinking-the-market-of-the-future/ Pardonnez-moi, Monsieur le Voisin My own observational research about kitchen gardens leaves me puzzled as to how folks that grow kilos upon kilos of fresh produce become so perfectly round. No, I haven't 'had the opportunity' yet to ask, so I'll have to guess. Are these gentlemen taking the lettuces home and ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/06/gardens-and-girth-the-real-french-paradox/ Ground-elder ravioli & goutweed pesto with locally foraged kale flower, spinach and mint Within hours of the posting Slim Pickins was already fully booked. Plagued at its very inception with limited seating, the urban kitchen garden restaurant located on the edge of a raised bed was forced to devise a waiting ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/05/slim-pickins-restaurant-review/ Slim Pickins garden staff help with the weeding Studio Culiblog is proud to announce the opening this Sunday of it's new minimalist concept restaurant in Amsterdam Noord. Slim Pickins is an outdoor micro-eatery situated on the edge of a raised bed, in an urban kitchen garden, serving up the occasional amuse ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/04/slim-pickins-the-occasional-garden-restaurant/ The answers are: the Edible City & Permaculture This week I attended a dinner at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), smack dab in the exhibition called MAAK ONS LAND, which literally translated means, MAKE OUR LAND but which was translated by the NAi as the hopeful, SHAPE OUR COUNTRY, but also implying the ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/03/and-what-will-fuel-the-landscape-of-the-future/ Champagne no, socialism Yes. Last week I received the very sad news that my dear friend, Sidi El Gouche, my Occitanian kitchen garden neighbour, has died. It has taken me a long time to get to the point that I could even write this memorial to him because I am just ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/02/in-memoriam-sidi-el-gouche/ Woodcut for the Jewish arbor day Tu b'Shvat, from the Minhogimbukh Amsterdam 1722, recently adapted by Scott-Martin Kosofsky, image used entirely without permission. There's nothing like a religious calendar sporting multiple 'new years' to remind us that we were once deeply connected to our food systems. Agrarian celebrations lace the Jewish ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/02/a-happy-new-year-for-the-fruit-trees/ A symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast (aka SCOBY) fermenting a jar of sweetened tea into a healthy drink called kombucha. Recently my possee and I attended a party at the opening of an Amsterdam design event. Free drinks were flowing because the party was heavily sponsored by a distilled beverage ... http://www.culiblog.org/2009/02/sipping-from-the-petri-dish-of-life/ Harvesting purple mustard seeds at midwinter, more than I could ever grow or eat or pickle. Harvesting butternut seeds in the city, if I grew these here, they'd cover the southern façade. Harvesting bee balm seeds at midsummer, for more flowers than the bees need. Flow begets flow. http://www.culiblog.org/2009/01/seed-optimism/