Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil
Halophice-cream
June 8, 2023
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
Past
TBA21–Academy
Research
"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.
"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.
"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.