Noma's Food Language, GPS-Tracked Garbage And The World .

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Image: Technabob.comSKYCALLThe afternoon session was opened by Rene Redzepi and brought culinary adventure to proceedings with a detailed foray into the scientificexperiments of the famous Danish restaurant he co-founded, Noma.Noma create flavours. They seek not to use ingredients for dishes but to make building blocks of flavour that can then be combined to createeither a sauce, or a dish. It's akin to writing a new food language, with the building blocks being new words (new flavours) and thecombination of them (the sentence) being the dish, as explained by Noma R&D chef Lars Williams, accompanied by Arielle Johnson, flavourscientist. Fermentation is what underpins this language, and through a series of taste tests they demonstrate that fermentation is a cookingutensil at Noma, rather than simply a technique. It is their chief mode of experimentation and gives rise to new and complex flavours thatdevelop over time. Lars explains that these new flavours cannot be manufactured. The ingredients are controlled precisely in DIY vesselsthey made out of shipping containers that have a range of minus 50 to plus 60 degrees and exacting humidity control. It's a fascinatinginsight, and given that it's a non-profit initiative serving onl

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