Food-related film, art, design and culture in Amsterdam
November 17, 2005
Starting next week culiblog is feeding itself with food-related films from the Shadow and IDFA documentary film festivals. Themes such as the family farm, food distribution, foodstore owners, olive trees, Japanese home cooking and of course globalisation, feature prominently in my selection.
The Netherlands has two film seasons each year. In November and December it’s documentary season with the Shadow Film Festival and the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). In January it’s the International Film Festival Rotterdam. I have known couples that, when they broke up, had to decide who would get to go to which film festival. Seriously. Big stars like artist Allan Sekula, who presented his documentary Fish Story at the Shadow Festival in 2002, show up for these events in our dark but cosy Polar Circle villages.
The culiblog programme of food-related documentary film (Nov 25-Dec 03, 2005, Amsterdam NL)
Friday 25.11
12.30h Film Museum: Meat Vegetables and Dessert
14.45h City 7: My Dear Olive Tree
18.30h Calypso: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
20.20h Cinerama 1: Profils Paysans (Profiles of Farmers: Daily Life)
Saturday 26.11
12.00h City 1: Bullshit
21.00h City 1: We Feed the World
22:00h Uitkijk: Autumn
Sunday 27.11
16.00h Melkweg: Taimagura Grandma
Monday 28.11
11.00h Cinerama 1: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
14.30h City 7: Het is een Schone Dag Geweest (It’s been a lovely day)
21.45h Cinerama 1: Our Daily Bread
22.00h Uitkijk: Alimentation Generale
Tuesday 29.11
20.00h City 5: Bullshit
21.30 City 1: We Feed the World
Wednesday 30.11
19.00h City 1: Our Daily Bread
Thursday 01.12
10.45 City 7: My Dear Olive Tree
Friday 02.12
20.15 City 3: Meat Vegetables and Dessert
Saturday 03.12
12.45h Calypso 1: We Feed the World
14.15h Film Museum: Profils Paysans
17.30h City 2: Our Daily Bread
19.00h City 3: Bullshit
19.15h City 7: Het is een schone dag geweest
For IDFA reservations:
IDFA +31 (0)20 4277452 (open from 12-17h)
http://www.idfa.nl/
For Shadow Festival reservations, contact the locations:
de Melkweg +31 (0)20 53 18181
Lijnbaansgracht 234/A
de Uitkijk +31 (0)20 6237 460
Prinsengracht 452
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Just experimenting with raw cruciferous vegetables
November 16, 2005
It would be absolutely no problem for me to go on and on about the conceptual and nutritional inconsistencies of the raw food (culture) diet, but I have to admit that this raw food culinary experiment has seriously increased my intake of *cruciferous vegetables. And that’s good a thing because all cooked cruciferous vegetables taste to me like fart. And that’s a bad thing.
* cabbages, kale, broccoli, bruxelles sprouts, cauliflower, get it?
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Audible gasps caused by morphogenetic fields
November 15, 2005
I was perusing my daily share of food writing, food photography and food porn, when what should I spy with my little eye? An aged eGullet entry about Grant Achatz’ tasting menu at his much praised restaurant, Alinea. I know, I know, everyone’s been eating honeycomb since time immemorial, but honey is apparently extra hot right now and Grant Achatz uses Ohio honeycomb at his restaurant, whereas I use Turkish and Dutch honeycomb… at home.
Images from top to bottom: honeycomb dessert image attributed to eGullet contributor ‘yellow truffle’ in his October 14, 2005 entry on Grant Achatz’ buzzy restaurant, Alinea (hopefully used with permission), a prototype of my honeycomb cocoa nib bonbon photographed by the author herself
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