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Introduction by Lucy Lippard, essay by Mike Davis. Between October 2006 and April 2007, three gardens were given away. Each garden was planted in one of the three microclimates in San Francisco: sunbelt, transition belt and fog belt. The households were selected based on an ad posted on Craiglist. It was posted on October 10th ad midnight. By 9:30am October 11th, we had(...)
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Amy Franceschini: victory gardens 2007: a plan for subsidized urban gardens
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Introduction by Lucy Lippard, essay by Mike Davis. Between October 2006 and April 2007, three gardens were given away. Each garden was planted in one of the three microclimates in San Francisco: sunbelt, transition belt and fog belt. The households were selected based on an ad posted on Craiglist. It was posted on October 10th ad midnight. By 9:30am October 11th, we had received over 800 responses. Each garden was delivered on the Victory Garden Trike and included a planting party, a Starter Kit, and two lessons. The lessons included how to build a raised bed, install a drip system, planting instructions, seasonal planting, seed saving, harvesting methods, composting, and canning. 1 Artist 1 Concept is a series of books by individual artists, produced by The Expanding Color System.
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Coffee, tea, and chocolate were all the rage in Enlightenment Europe. These fashionable beverages profoundly shaped modes of sociability and patterns of consumption, yet none of the plants required for their preparation was native to the continent: coffee was imported from the Levant, tea from Asia, and chocolate from Mesoamerica. Their introduction to 17th-century Europe(...)
Coffee, tea, and chocolate: consuming the world
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Coffee, tea, and chocolate were all the rage in Enlightenment Europe. These fashionable beverages profoundly shaped modes of sociability and patterns of consumption, yet none of the plants required for their preparation was native to the continent: coffee was imported from the Levant, tea from Asia, and chocolate from Mesoamerica. Their introduction to 17th-century Europe revolutionized drinking habits and social customs. It also spurred an insatiable demand for specialized vessels such as hot beverage services and tea canisters, coffee cups and chocolate pots. This beautiful book demonstrates how the paraphernalia associated with coffee, tea, and chocolate can eloquently evoke the culture of these new beverages and the material pleasures that surrounded them. Contributors address such topics as the politics of coffee consumption in 18th-century Germany; 18th-century visual satires on the European consumption of tea, coffee, and chocolate; and the design history of coffee pots in the United States between the colonial period and the present.
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Pourquoi écrire un livre sur le terroir ? Pour préciser les contours d'une cuisine moderne française. L'enjeu est de taille. Il s'agit d'ouvrir de nouveaux horizons en exprimant le produit autrement, pleinement, grâce à l'étude des piliers fondateurs de notre gastronomie. Bien qu'identitaire, le terroir n'est pas apprécié à sa juste valeur en cuisine car trop souvent(...)
Terroirs : réflexions d'un cuisinier
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Pourquoi écrire un livre sur le terroir ? Pour préciser les contours d'une cuisine moderne française. L'enjeu est de taille. Il s'agit d'ouvrir de nouveaux horizons en exprimant le produit autrement, pleinement, grâce à l'étude des piliers fondateurs de notre gastronomie. Bien qu'identitaire, le terroir n'est pas apprécié à sa juste valeur en cuisine car trop souvent restreint à une simple zone géographique. Insuffisant. Comment servir dans l'assiette le goût du terroir ? Et si l'affirmation de Michel Chapoutier selon laquelle "seuls les produits fermentés peuvent faire valoir le terroir" se vérifiait aux fourneaux ? Ce nouvel ouvrage compte 18 mois d'interrogations, d'échanges, d'expériences, d'échecs, de réussites pour essayer de mieux restituer le terroir, en s'appuyant sur un double process de fermentation, puis d'extraction. À la clef, un plaisir décuplé, ultime. celui non plus d'un simple espace géographique, mais de ses saveurs les plus complexes... Ou comment une nouvelle fois, faire parler l'élément, le vivant, autrement, pleinement.
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Octaphilosophie
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Toute la philosophie culinaire du chef André Chiang, dont le Restaurant André, à Singapour, est classé parmi les 50 meilleurs restaurants au monde et le cinquième meilleur restaurant d’Asie.
Octaphilosophie
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Toute la philosophie culinaire du chef André Chiang, dont le Restaurant André, à Singapour, est classé parmi les 50 meilleurs restaurants au monde et le cinquième meilleur restaurant d’Asie.
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Le livre qui reprend dans l’ordre toutes les techniques du CAP de boulangerie, pour tous ceux qui se rêvent apprenti boulanger. Le concept pour chaque recette : une infographie et une photo « matière » pour expliquer ce que c’est et ce qui compose la réalisation, une photo de tous les ingrédients, des photos étape par étape, une photo finale pour rêver.
Le grand manuel du boulanger : pains, brioches et autres gourmandises dorées
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Le livre qui reprend dans l’ordre toutes les techniques du CAP de boulangerie, pour tous ceux qui se rêvent apprenti boulanger. Le concept pour chaque recette : une infographie et une photo « matière » pour expliquer ce que c’est et ce qui compose la réalisation, une photo de tous les ingrédients, des photos étape par étape, une photo finale pour rêver.
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Cookery has never been so high on the agenda of Western popular culture. And yet the endlessly-multiplying TV shows, the obsessive interest in the provenance of ingredients, and the celebration of ‘radical’ experiments in gastronomy, tell us little about the nature of the culinary. Is it possible to maintain that cookery has a philosophical pertinence without merely(...)
Collapse: philosophical research and development 2012: culinary materialism, volume VII
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Cookery has never been so high on the agenda of Western popular culture. And yet the endlessly-multiplying TV shows, the obsessive interest in the provenance of ingredients, and the celebration of ‘radical’ experiments in gastronomy, tell us little about the nature of the culinary. Is it possible to maintain that cookery has a philosophical pertinence without merely appending philosophy to our burgeoning gastroculture? How might the everyday sense of the culinary be expanded into a philosophy of ‘culinary materialism’ wherein synthesis, experimentation, and operations of mixing and blending take precedence over analysis, subtraction and axiomatisation? Drawing on resources ranging from anthropology to chemistry, from hermetic alchemy to contemporary mathematics, "Collapse VII: culinary materialism" undertakes a trans-modal experiment in culinary thinking. A wide range of contributors including philosophers, chefs, artists, historians, and synaesthetes examine the cultural, industrial, physiological, alchemical and even cosmic dimensions of cookery, and propose new models of culinary thought for the future.
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El Internacional Tapas Bar & Restaurant was conceived as an artistic project carried out between 1984 and 1986 by artist Antoni Miralda (born 1942) and chef Montse Guillén (born 1946) in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City. One of the first restaurants to introduce Spanish tapas in the United States, El Internacional quickly became a cultural icon and a creative hub(...)
Miralda's El Internacional (1984-1986)
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El Internacional Tapas Bar & Restaurant was conceived as an artistic project carried out between 1984 and 1986 by artist Antoni Miralda (born 1942) and chef Montse Guillén (born 1946) in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City. One of the first restaurants to introduce Spanish tapas in the United States, El Internacional quickly became a cultural icon and a creative hub of New York’s downtown in the 1980s. It combined the social ritual of eating with installation and performance art, blurring the boundaries between food, art, design, architecture and mass media. Miralda’s El Internacional (1984–1986) documents the restaurant’s history through the memories of the people who contributed to it. Richly illustrated and featuring some of El Internacional’s most successful recipes, this volume tells the story of a crucial piece of urban history from a city not always able to protect its landmarks.
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This publication explores how the topic of food and associated processes such as its production and consumption are critically reflected in the international art of today. The catalogue for the 13th Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture presents over forty artistic approaches from across the continents, in which it becomes clear how food can be understood as exemplified by(...)
Food: ecologies of the everyday.
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This publication explores how the topic of food and associated processes such as its production and consumption are critically reflected in the international art of today. The catalogue for the 13th Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture presents over forty artistic approaches from across the continents, in which it becomes clear how food can be understood as exemplified by aesthetic, social, ecological and economical connections.
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Depuis plusieurs années, Anthony Duchêne s’intéresse à l’univers des sensations, gustatives, olfactives, visuelles et tactiles. Entrecroisant les domaines rationnels et ceux des sciences humaines, l’artiste évoque par ses réalisations des figures d’hybridations et de mutations d’espèces végétales et animales à partir desquelles il imagine des combinaisons inédites. Il(...)
Anthony Duchêne : sauce béarnaise syndrome
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Depuis plusieurs années, Anthony Duchêne s’intéresse à l’univers des sensations, gustatives, olfactives, visuelles et tactiles. Entrecroisant les domaines rationnels et ceux des sciences humaines, l’artiste évoque par ses réalisations des figures d’hybridations et de mutations d’espèces végétales et animales à partir desquelles il imagine des combinaisons inédites. Il provoque des rapprochements de parties animales, de matériaux et de composants disparates qui, visuellement, apparaissent soutenus par une logique organique, mais ne sont en réalité que des leurres, des faux-semblants.
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Mushrooms are loved, despised, feared and misunderstood. They have been a familiar part of nature throughout human history and occupy a special place in our consciousness. Nicholas P. Money introduces the mythology and science of the spectacular array of fungi that produce mushrooms, the history of our interactions with these curious and beautiful organisms, and the ways(...)
Mushrooms: a natural and cultural history
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Mushrooms are loved, despised, feared and misunderstood. They have been a familiar part of nature throughout human history and occupy a special place in our consciousness. Nicholas P. Money introduces the mythology and science of the spectacular array of fungi that produce mushrooms, the history of our interactions with these curious and beautiful organisms, and the ways that humans use mushrooms as food, medicine and recreational drugs.
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