catalan food
Artist Marti Guixe has just put out a cookbook. Limited to 3000 copies, the book contains some recipes which could give
Heston Blumenthal a run for his money. Guixe's products include "post-it chips" (chips stuck to the wall in a convenient location),
edible wallpaper, and "Camper cakes" (round cookies given an interesting surface texture with the stamp of a Camper shoe). He doesn't show any knowledge of food whatsoever, which might irk some folks, but I'm ignorant and find it all pretty amusing.
By coincidence, he also suggests "reforestation snacks"--small balls with seeds and coffee, which you eat and then crap out (with seeds and such) in nature to reforest. Strangely enough, Lekker's been pushing this idea in the form of a regionally-specific dog food infused with seeds from under-represented plant species. This was meant to be a guerilla tactic to improve community parks, which are invariably boring (not to mention monocultural). The idea came about when I saw two GIS maps--one which correlates high dog ownership to poor neighborhoods; and another, which correlates reclaimed brownfield parks to poor neighborhoods. I tried pitching this idea to Peter del Tredici of the Arnold Arboretum to get him to join as a consultant. He didn't write back.
* joshua, 8/18/2004 11:26:23 PM
