In defence of Eatertainment
After seeing so many of these fish ponds, you can pretty much get a feel of how valuable the fish is just by the external ‘aesthetics’ of the pond. Salmon, for example are too expensive to risk losing through sloppy maintenance. They also need heavy investment in mechanical pumps due to a need for higher … Read more
Seafood Island
At the Communist port of the South Sea Hainan occupation island at the most Southern corner of China, a terrapin is breaking free of his nylon net in a desperate attempt to escape its certain gruesome (and no doubt delicious) death. He had unwound a few of the knots in the web so that he could … Read more
Fish Farms
Drama had already happened in the first of the fish farms I visited. A boat was sinking and half of the village came to shout advice, take their lunch and watch the spectacle. I was surprised that in a village where everyone would know each other, no one was offering to lend a much-needed hand. … Read more
Ecosystem Restaurant
All that killing isn’t for show, the market is interconnected with a large, public restaurant which comes to life every evening. I’d never realised the many different facet to the services provided by a restaurant until I had seen each company that comes together to bring this seafood meal into life. The Food poisoning must … Read more
Misfortune of a Sea Turtle
If a terrapin got me batting for the sea life team, seeing this sea turtle’s arm sold as meat in the market would certainly knock me off of my cool, calm ‘researcher’s’ pedestal. My immediate reaction (if ever there was any) was to think about how this extremely endangered species ended up being on sale … Read more
Fishy Eatertainment
It soon became a fascination of mine to visit seafood markets. Through these prospective food groups, I became a tourist of a world I could never conquest. It was a sort of predatory thrill, to have the ability to munch away, in exchange for money, at a scary predator that I would cower away from … Read more
Interactionists in Beijing & Horsemeat Hotpot
A better opportunity to try authentic horse meat came up…. I took RCA’s Design interactions, with Fiona Raby, to organize some pecha-kucha style exchanges with the top innovators and universities in Beijing. Aside from lining up some sessions with Tsinghua, Central Academy of Fine Arts, China Youthology, Makerspace, budding technologists, designers and innovators…we snuck some time … Read more
Horse Meats and Urban Vegetables with Incredible Edibles
Todmordern is a pretty, hilly village in the North of England. If you Google it, you’ll be most likely to find two contrasting attitudes towards food: It nests the site of horror: a supposed horsemeat slaughter-house that supplied tranquillised horses as beef to supermarkets. It’s the home of Incredible Edible, which uses urban farming to revive … Read more
Walt-Disney Syndrome
Here’s a true story: A wild pig enters a flower shop… The shop owner, apparently thinking the pig was an “ugly dog” calls the police. There is no speed dial for ‘The departments of wild pigs’ – so the police outsources the job to the city’s special pest control agent –the hunter. However, by the … Read more
Darwin Day: Phylum Dilemma when Pigs Rule the Lands
There’s a lesson to be learnt from the plague of rabbits that were abandoned foods engineered for mass production. Most European countries used to eat rabbits. They were convenient sources of protein on long ship journeys. Low maintenance and fast reproduction made them the perfect food-on-the-go. Sometime during reign of the rabbit cuisine, the population … Read more
Lisa Ma
Lisa Ma
