Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil

Halophice-cream

June 8, 2023

Ocean Space Venice

Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil. Halophice-cream, Ocean Space, Venice, June 2023. Photo: Camilla Glorioso

Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil. Halophice-cream, Ocean Space, Venice, June 2023. Photo: Camilla Glorioso

TBA21–Academy

Research

Programming

"Sapid Soil" is the second edition of Convivial Tables, TBA21–Academy’s active research program dedicated to the ties between food and ecology and the way these affect bodies of water.​

"Sapid Soil: Halophice-cream" explores the edibility of saline soils by presenting two halophytes ice cream flavors: a lemon and sea purslane sorbet and a black sesame ice cream and candied sea fennel.

As a product, Halophice-cream reiterates and brings further the successful collaboration between The Tidal Garden and Gelatoteca Suso, a dynamic local business that was the first to open its laboratories to experimentation with halophytes.

The synergy with Suso epitomizes two salient aspects of The Tidal Garden's strategy: creating a contemporary Lagoonal gastronomic culture through tasty, everyday food and establishing a network of local businesses to broaden the mutual impact on the food awareness of a shared public.

PROGRAM

"Sapid Soil: Halophice-cream" is part of Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil, a program of events that insists on the possibilities of food habits to become tools for the emergence of amphibious worlds for a past, present, and future still possible to recover. Taking place between May and October 2023 at Ocean Space, a series of culinary interventions present the ongoing agronomic work of The Tidal Garden with local farmers and institutions. Chefs and businesses explore the edibility of halophytes and saline soils, inviting participants to speculate on the policies that could allow the physical and cultural cultivation, processing, and digestion of a sapid environment.

CONVIVIAL TABLES

“Sapid Soil” is curated by the research agency The Tidal Garden and takes place at Ocean Space, Venice, from May to October 2023 as part of Convivial Tables, TBA21–Academy’s active research program dedicated to the ties between food and ecology and the way these affect bodies of water, led by María Montero Sierra and Barbara Nardacchione with Markus Reymann. This research program is aligned with the principles of regeneration and more-than-human rights promoted by the project Zoöp, which TBA21–Academy is a partner in.
 

GELATOTECA SUSO

Gelatoteca Suso combines ice cream and confectionery, giving birth to a gelateria with unique natural creations that are designed to provide a sensory experience. The continual research on revisited classics or previously unobtainable flavors, the use of selected ingredients in constant evolution, and the proposal of products that are seasonal are what make Suso the best gelateria in Venice.

 

THE TIDAL GARDEN

The Tidal Garden is a Venice-based research and spatial agency founded in 2020 that explores the edible potential of halophytes as a tool for cultural adaptation to climate change. Led by Lorenzo Barbasetti di Prun (chef/artist), Filippo Grassi (scientist/researcher), and Lodovica Guarnieri (designer/curator) in collaboration with a network of farmers, chefs and researchers, the project supports the emergence of new eating habits as means of conservation of the Lagoon’s landscape in times of rising sea levels.

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