Culiblog dot org is one year young
November 5, 2005
Museum Night 2005 marks the one year anniversary of the domain culiblog dot org and the ladies were there to celebrate with me at the restaurant that incorporates this domain name the most into its interior design. For the time being this is could only mean Food Facility, but lord only knows what the future will bring! The Ladies Debra, Julie, Renée, Helena, Quirine, Klazien and Aya especially enjoyed our bubbles with croquetas d’amour, presented in an inside joke of absorbant Dutch design.
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Chef Thor, Croqueta d’Amor, Medaille d’Or, Cultural Sectór!
November 4, 2005
images top to bottom: Croqueta d’Amor in process, the chef formerly known as Thor, Chef Croquette works on a Croquette Japonais
At a top secret location in Amsterdam’s PostCS cultural hub, Chef Croquette and the Croquette Family get to work on the hundreds of croquettes ordered for a weekend filled with cultural events. It’s as if the PostCS (home to the Stedelijk Museum, Mediamatic, Club 11, numerous artists’ initiatives and one of the thirty-eight locations for the 6th annual Museum Night) suddenly needs it’s very own croquette chef. Of course croquette commissioners from the cultural sector are the most demanding of all. To posh up their menus this weekend they unanimously chose two of the newest creations from the chef formerly known as Chef Thor; the Croqueta d’Amor (’No More War!’ ‘7 Sabors!’) and the Croquette Japonais.
Just like Willy Wonka’s Magic Chewing Gum, each bite of the Croqueta d’Amor and the Croquette Japonais yields a different taste explosion, seven flavours in all. In the film as well as the book by Roald Dahl, the magic chewing gum is still in beta when bitchy Violet Beauregard (chewing gum expert and glutton) snatches a piece of the gum to give it a chew and to sell the recipe to a rival candymaker. Due to the side-effects caused by the experimental nature of the gum, Violet blows up into a giant blueberry and has to be juiced forthwith!
Let that be a lesson to us all.
Chef Croquette joked to me, ‘er zijn kapers op de kust’ , which is a charming Dutch way of saying, ‘many is the chef that would pirate this recipe.’ Indeed, as we prepared the croquettes in a location deep under the earth’s crust, at least five chefs happened to ‘pop in for a little chat’. I think they could sense that Chef C. had perfected the technique of creating an entire meal in ten cubic centimetres of croquette with no ill side-effects. That or the fact that the location was also a central storage place for beer. Either way, the concept of Open Source is not alive and well in the culinary world.
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Shedding light upon the dim
A rectification is in order. In my initial article about the Food Facility I said that it ‘ … marks the first time that diners can experience their urban menu in performance format at one dining location.’ This is simply not true, and Pieter van der Werf and Esther Plomp from MPD Export were on top of it enough to point this out to me. Apparently they have carried out this same concept several times since 1998, with enormous success. This is surely a sign from the gawds that it’s time high time I started rereading Lucy Lippard. Has it been six years already? Don’t believe everything you read.
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