DOORS OF PERCEPTION 9 - JUICE

The next Doors conference (New Delhi) is right around the corner (Feb. 28 - March 4), so if you haven't booked your tix yet, get moving. The theme is "Juice: Food, Energy, Design" and here's the pitch:

Global food systems are not sustainable. Industrialised food consumes ten times more energy in production and distribution than enters our bodies as nutrition. In 'developed' countries, the food consumption of a single family generates eight tonnes of CO2 emissions a year.

People in industrialised countries - that probably includes you and me - eat between six and seven kilogrammes of food additives every year.

This madness is enabled by non renewable fossil fuel. But what to do? Doors 9 breaks the food systems issue into bite-sized design chunks. "If food production efficiency is measured by the ratio between the amount of energy required to produce a given amount of food, and the energy congtained in that food, then industrial agriculture is by far the least efficient form of food production ever practised. From farm to plate, depending on the degree to which it has been processed, a typical food item may embody input energy between four and several hundred times its food energy". Fact: In the USA, food traves an average oif 1,300 miles from farm to plate.

[Richard Heinberg, The Party's Over: Oil, War, And the Fate of Industrial Societies. Clairview, 2005].

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A WORLD OF PINOT NOIR

Food for design is honoured to be a part of the programm of the 10th anniversary of The Contemporary Flemish Wine Institute®, the n°1 wine school of Belgium.

We would like to invite you for an unforgettable wine & food experience:

“A WORLD OF PINOT NOIR”

when: Friday the 16th of March 2007
where: Campus Ter Groene Poorte in Brugge – see www.evw.be
program:

10.00h Science in service of our Belgian gastronomy
by ir. Bernard Lahousse – www.foodfordesign.be

11.30h The Influence of pinot noir on the human body
by prof. dr. Nicolai Worm – www.logi-methode.de

13.00h Molecular gastronomy demonstration lunch
by Peter Coucquyt – Flemish Culinary Institute

15.00h ‘A World of Pinot Noir’ symposium
moderator: Jancis Robinson MW - www.jancisrobinson.com
with winemakers from Australia, Belgium, California, Chile, Germany, France, Italy, New-Zealand, Austria, Slovenia & South-Africa

17.00h Open tasting with 100 pinot noir wines from the whole world
& pinot noir business discussion lounge

17.30h Food hackings

18.30h presentation of the FAITH fund by creator Beyers Truter,
pinotage winemaker and president of the Pinotage Association

19.00h Village of taste: 10 cooking islands where the young generation of Belgian chefs create sublime recipes with contemporary equipment, linked to the pinot noir wines of the world.

in collaboration with www.khbo.be & www.tergroenepoorte.be

participation: € 75,00 + VAT

subscription:
see www.evw.be
katrien.claeys@syntrawest.be
tel: 051 26 87 50 (Katrien Claeys)

fund raising: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and associated alcohol abuse may be sensitive topics for some but it is important to talk loudly about it and to help in every way possible. The Faith Fund aims to do just that. And it needs your assistance to do that. The EVW® supports the Faith Fund with the total turnover of this day, and the help of many sponsors.

For people who want to know what is going on in Belgium regarding molecular gastronomy, this is an event you can't miss. As it is an international event the language spoken during the lectures will be english or french.

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REPORT OF MG SEMINAR

We got a lot of possitive comments on the MG seminar. For the people who couldn't attend the seminar; all lectures and demonstrations were filmed. Clicking below directs you the movies made during the seminar. So you can see the lectures of professor Peter Barham and professor Jorge Ruiz and enjoy the live demonstrations of the chef Sang Hoon of L'air du temps and chef Kobe of In de wulf

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