EAT DESIGN 2014

The big event is coming up soon!  

Please tell your friends and family to register here

Saturday, December 6th 

7pm in McNeal Hall, St. Paul Campus

Students, the last set of lecture slides are posted online with details about the event and the results of the last assignment:

food_design_final2014.pdf

Visual Aesthetic

Class!  

New visual aesthetic of food lecture slides with new assignment details are posted here:

food_design_graphic2014.pdf

Also this is the article on Kandinksy inspired plating:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/25/325189711/kandinsky-on-a-plate-art-inspired-salad-just-tastes-better

This is a NY Times article on instagram of food:

Dishes Worthy of Instagram, but Not Your Appetite - NYTimes.com.pdf

also check out the Art of Plating:

http://theartofplating.com/

Texture

I am posting the lecture slides on texture manipulation methods:
TRANSFORMATION2014lecture.pdf

If you haven't downloaded the Texture book, please do that now.

You should also view some of the Science and Cooking Harvard lecture series on you tube:

Flavor!

You can find the lecture notes on the new Flavor/Texture Assignment and the Creative Carrot results here: food_design_flavor_2014.pdf

For the next assignment, you are creating a one-bite flavor pairing featuring apples.  Some excerpts from the Flavor Bible and The Flavor Thesaurus can be found here:

apple_pairings.pdf

You can also check out the awesome Food Pairing Website:
http://www.foodpairing.com/en/home

You will also need to modify the texture of one of your ingredients.  Make sure you download the free Texture book here:
http://blog.khymos.org/recipe-collection/

This week we will be going to Cooks of Crocus Hill for a taste testing exercise and to meet Prof. Jim Luby the creator of the Honey Crisp apple.

Welcome to Food&Design 2014

I'm really excited to be teaching this class again.  I wanted to post a few relevant links for the beginning of the semester.

1- Our most recent syllabus:
3715_2014.pdf

2- Lecture slides for day one (class logistics):
food_design_intro_2014.pdf

3- Lecture slides for day two (creative methods+assignment details): food_design_lecture2_2014.pdf

4- My research paper on the creative methods of chefs:
kudrowitz_2014.pdf

5- The creative methods of Ferran Adria handout:
elbulli.pdf

6 - The Art of Plating on Instagram:
http://instagram.com/theartofplating

7 - Cooks of Crocus Hill
http://www.cooksofcrocushill.com/

8 - My colleague from Australia's Food Design project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFwf5aW-rh0

EAT DESIGN (2013)

logistics for the EAT Design event are now posted in the lecture notes:
food_design_final.pdf

Kitchen Tours This Weds

Hey gang, this Wednesday, Nov. 20th, we will be touring the kitchen at The Bachelor Farmer and then at Bar La Grassa.

Please meet outside of The Bachelor Farmer (50 N. 2nd Ave) at 10 am, please be on time! It is asking a lot of these chefs to be there that early as they work late nights too!

At around 10:20 we will head to Bar La Grassa (800 N. Washington Ave). It is a 10-15 min walk or a very short drive from The Bachelor Farmer.

It is very easy to use the bus to get to this area, but please get in touch with your classmates to arrange carpooling if possible. See you Wednesday.