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Forget the taco salad. And remember the salad taco.

July 15, 2014 by antdina

The year is 1999. Federal courts declare Microsoft a monopoly. George “double-yah” rises as the top Republican hopeful. Brittnay Spears is still a child and not having children. And Bud Light captures our attention with Real Men of Genius on the radio. In that advertising campaign, agency DDB Worldwide to took careful aim to lampoon our obsession with indulgence. In this radio spot they expose irony of a 1200 calorie taco salad. Complete with an edible, deep-fried tortilla shell. The music overlay […]

Categories: Design • Tags: 11 Plates, Elizabeth Street Cafe, fritters, larb, lettuce, Qui, Real Men of Genius, red fish, salad, taco

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A salad which might pickpocket expectations

June 29, 2014 by antdina

She comes in the room without an invitation. Her face warming, bright and punctuated with sparkling green eyes. Decked in a flower dress and curly auburn hair. Her gaze changes the party. Guests shed jackets and formalities. Lips no longer hold back smiles. The icy wind leaves. And the promise of clinking glasses signal the start to a season of laughter. Her name is Summer. She does not wait for the longest day of the year. She joins when she damn […]

Categories: The Taste Lab • Tags: cucumber, mint, nectarine, salad

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Dining from the garden of an artist

June 16, 2014 by antdina

Can’t see the forest for the trees. Consonance and dissonance. “Let there be spaces in your togetherness….” (Khalil Gibran, The Prophet). An expression. The mechanics of music. And recommendation by a poet. These all signal the duality which forms the human experience. They speak to perspective. From the ground, people of the sky lack context. From the heavens people of the earth lack context. Both are true. Hieronymus Bosch painted with a symbolic hand. The Garden of Earthly Delights show fantastical […]

Categories: Storytelling • Tags: Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch, Michael Bras, painting, Qui, salad, vegetables, Willem deKooning

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It’s 1967 all over again

April 27, 2014 by antdina

That oak which sits in your front yard. Or at the top of the street. Or in the city plaza. Began as a seedling. Through many miracles it found water and light and grew to the sky. And while we admire the giant it has become, the seedling never went away. Instead, that young green shoot expanded out as much as it shot up. Elementary school explains this truth to the open minds of children. The cross cut of an old tree reveals […]

Categories: The Taste Lab • Tags: Chicken Surprise, easy recipe, Florence Hanford, food, home, Philadelphia Electric Company, puff pastry, salad

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Gamification comes to the kitchen

January 26, 2014 by antdina

Twister is a fun game. The dial spins. Left hand on red dot. Another spin. Left foot on blue. Then right on yellow. It continues until the family contorts into a modern sculpture anchored on a blanket of colored circles. Then gravity bests even those with the mightiest of yoga skills. The group collapses and laughter erupts. The game resets with everyone on their feet. We continue to play until our bodies, not our brains give out. The combinations stimulate […]

Categories: Design • Tags: appeteaser, apricots, burrata, dessert, fruit, Gusto, Ina Garten, Italian, Mario Batali, mincemeat pies, Otto, proscuitto, salad, savory, tagine, Twister, Tyson Cole, Uchiko

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Eating from the Witch’s Kitchen

December 15, 2013 by antdina

Our demeanor changes in the cold. When the temperature drops, we curse the breeze by calling it “gust.” We speak ill of “windchill.” Eyes narrow and brows furrow when feet step into icy air. And our palates change too. Stomachs echo the howls of the Winter. We hunger for rich flavors born from marathon cooking times. Spoons are promoted from the dessert position to their place next to the knife. We slurp up every last bit. No calorie left behind. […]

Categories: Meaning • Tags: Austria, bitter, bitter greens, brussel sprouts, Bufalina, cold, food, fruit, hazlenut, Munich, NoRTH, nuts, phonemes, salad, wind, winter, witch, witch's kitchen

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If dinner could talk, could it tell the story of the moon? It can and did.

May 19, 2013 by antdina

Previously we shared how, Italo Calvino published a novel about many travelers who meet up in a castle. The characters tell their personal journeys through a deck of Tarot cards.  Flip by flip their individual stories unfold. Card by card their collective story became a single fabric. The genius is that the characters are not limited because they do not have words. Communication can take alternative forms and still leave the audience mesmerized,  enriched and transformed. So why not try this with […]

Categories: Storytelling, The Taste Lab • Tags: Castle of Crossed Desitinies, cook, cooking, desert, dinner, dwarves, Fairytale, France, friends, Grimm, Italo Calvino, Italy, macademia, Moon, narrative, Nero Davola, pineapple, port, ravioli, salad, storytelling, strangers, Tarot, tart, taste, wine, Wizard Academy

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Sing a Salad

January 30, 2012 by antdina

Music comes to our ears from composers as a sequence of tones through instruments. Same could be said for the culinary arts. The artist of the kitchen delivers into conceptual reality a song as surely as the poet whispers a world into existence through words. Assuming that you are such a kitchen artist, how might the venerable salad act as a means of communication? First thing to realize is how dynamic this course has become. The modern salad often appears […]

Categories: The Taste Lab • Tags: artist, composer, conceptual reality, cuisine, dressing, experiment, food, jazz, lewis carrol, music, salad, taste, vinegairette

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All dressed up…

January 23, 2012 by antdina

Behind the magic of a well prepared salad lies the hidden thread of dressing. From simple oil and vinegar to complex concoctions with exotic ingredients, this cold sauce turns garden harvest into a dish. The origin of dressing might be associated to the Mediterranean where olive oil was lathered onto anything even stuff that did not make it past lips. Romans bathed in oil, scraping dirt off along with the oil. Oil also played it’s part in signifying the important in the […]

Categories: The Taste Lab • Tags: bitter, Cuisinart, dressing, greens, salad, salty, sour, sweet, umami

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