01 Multispecies Dinner
Jul 2024
Inspired from the endangered southern italian mediterranean coasts, this is a table which stands as a cut out of an habitat, an edible landscape to be explored through a special cutlery. Sea urchins, musky octopus and blue crab become not only tools, but representatives of a habitat that can be felt, embodied and participated as a form of a culinary resistance, a way to rethink the local obsession with food that causes over-extractivism of natural resources for the sake of cultural representation. This dining platform is designed to host events and collective tasting experiences where the public is allowed to take action and try and embody one of those critters, to possibly feel what they feel and eat what they would eat. The menu is based on the real diet of each animal, and carefully crafted for the experience, compelling wild sea fennel, salicornia and sea lettuce as the main ingredients for many experimental recipes like: seaweed pasta, seaflower bread rocks, sea hummus and salicornia salad.
