March 29, 2011
Dirt Banquet – Menu
It is with great excitement that we announce the menu for our majestic feast of filth, designed by jellymongers and food artisans Bompas & Parr. The evening’s gourmet grime in all its glory is unveiled:
Cheese with mould and radioactive cheese serum (goat’s curd)
Geophagy – Chocolate soil – Papua New Guinea mud cakes
Bacterial jelly
Haggis
Gin punch
Fermentation
Natto – Soy sauce
Pickled vegetables
Fermented Fish
Innis & Gunn Beer
Earth
Imu (pork)
Root vegetables
Smokey BBQ sauce
Mushroom Katsup
Fine Wines
Sex
Aphrodisiac marshmallows
Prosecco and violet jelly breasts with gold leaf nipples
Ambergris posset
Ice Wine
Civet coffee – chocolate anuses
Charcoal cleansed Thames Water
Tickets for this event at Crossness featuring anthropologist Val Curtis and epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani have now sold out. However, we’ll be recreating the banquet on 21 July at the Secret Garden Party – catch us then if you can!
The Dirt Banquet is part of a season of events, games and a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection.
By Jen
March 15, 2011
Dirt Banquet
Working in partnership with experimental food artisans Bompas & Parr, we will host a Dirt Banquet inside a spectacular secret London location.
This unprecedented feast of filth will showcase dirty delicacies, such as radioactive cheese serum, imu cooked pork, Islay whiskey, fermented natto, and an aphrodisiac dessert - each course inspired by the physical, biological, ethical, architectural, social, political and temporal dimensions of dirt. Full menu to be announced a week before the date.
Eminent experts will accompany each course, feeding our guests with ideas about the nature of dirt: anthropologist Val Curtis will guide us through the evolution of disgust, and epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani, author of The Wisdom of Whores (catch her fantastic TED Talk here), will speak on sexuality. This edible adventure will provide diners with an unprecedented culinary experience that promises to be both thought-provoking as well as surprisingly appetizing.
You can buy tickets here.
This event is part of the Wellcome Trust’s fantastic and filthy Dirt season of events.
March 14, 2011
“A great new generation”
A lovely nod in the Evening Standard today, featuring a fab quote from our director Jenny Wong, and a very apt comment from Marcus du Sautoy:
“We’ve got a great new generation of people who can communicate those stories beyond the scientific community.”
As Jen then explains:
“We’re trying to embed science within culture, and we thought the best way of going about that would be to take science out of the lab and set it free.”
Tres bien.
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