April 6, 2011
Hygeine Hypothesis: London’s Feast of Filth
Another piece about the Dirt Banquet – and our very first time being covered in the Canadian media. Check this piece in the Toronto Standard (hailing from Zoe’s home town), about our Dirt Banquet.
A Laphroaig jelly breast, with gold leaf nipple. Photo Credit: Mike Massaro
“Please put your genitals on the table.” Epidemiologist and author Elizabeth Pisani was speaking to a crowd of 60 diners sitting beneath the gilded iron arches of a Victorian sewage pumping station. “No, you cannot trade your genitals with your neighbour — you have to take the genitals you are given.”
Filthy good fun.
April 5, 2011
Diners tuck into a Dirt Banquet
Piece out today on The Guardian’s website on the Dirt Banquet.
What would you be prepared to pop in your mouth? Photograph: Mike Massaro
Read the whole piece here. Hats off to Elizabeth Pisani for an ace quote: “Is sex dirty? We only seem to call it dirty if it’s done right.”
Wellcome Collection Blog: Dirt Banquet
Delightful post by Louise Crane on the Wellcome Trust’s blog.
If Heston Blumenthal is the chemist of cooking, then Bompas and Parr are the biologists. My taste buds were challenged like never before and I mastered my underlying fear of disease to taste some remarkable foods. And where better to do this than in the middle of a sewer?
Full posting here.
Insect Lollipops
Scorpion lolly?
Nom nom. Photo Credit: Zoe Cormier
Part of the Dirt Banquet on April 2 – more pics on our Flickr site.
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