Issue 5
IF YOU haven’t engaged with a hip-hop beef in a while, here’s a quick FYI: the days of simply claiming to be the best, folding your arms tightly across your puffed-out chest and saying “word” are well and truly over…
Gone now all soft organic shapes and motions: in the sepia-stained past, come the dinner-hour computers — as they were once known — slid down from high stools in Lothbury, Cornhill and Bishopsgate to breast the noontime smog of ten thousand coal fires, and frequent the wood-panelled…
WE NEED to talk about levain. In the UK we throw away around 24 million slices of bread a day. That’s at least 1 million loaves of bread a day.
The most important ingredient in any brisket sandwich is the meat itself. Over in Texas – where they know a thing or two about good barbecue – two ecologically-minded entrepreneurs are taking a scientific approach to producing the perfect brisket.
If you’re gonna make a proper brisket then you need a lot of salt. So we took a trip to the Bay of Biscay — l’Île de Noirmoutier to be specific.
Dr. Irwin Adam Eydelnant sits at the intersection of creativity, science and global food futures. Founder and Creative Scientific Director of Future Food Studio, he divides his time between a futuristic food experience lab in his native Toronto, and a self-sufficient 70-acre farm situated in upstate New York.
You’d think someone called DJ BBQ would have a background in fire. But for the ball of energy who’s more normally known as Christian Stevenson, it’s the opposite — he comes from the snow.