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The immersive table (five recipes)

2019-02-26T16:45:24Z

The soft protest digest:

To start off 2019, Adel Cersaque and Nickie Sigurdsson, together as The Soft Protest Digest, were invited as residents of the M4 Gast Atelier by fanfare Amsterdam. From its studio, located on one of the central canals of Amsterdam, the collective followed multiple parallel tasks in order to design a range of both culturally and environmentally resilient dishes for the residents of the North Holland region.

Hereby, the guidelines followed by The Soft Protest Digest throughout the month of January: 
1) Pick one to two ingredients each. Thoroughly research its history, its contemporary use in dutch cuisine and its production in Holland. 
2) Find the best regional producers of this ingredient, bike to their farms, taste, buy and include their products in the preparation of new resilient dishes. 
3) Design a tool which would able the collective to negotiate, grade and compare both the cultural and environmental resilience of crops, dairy, meat products and new dishes. 
4) Organise a few preliminary private tastings of the new dishes in order to confront them to a small group of dutchs” before publicly proposing them to the residents of the North Holland region. 
5) Make every meal part of the overall research by cooking typical dutch dishes for lunch and dinner.

By following these guidelines, The Soft Protest Digest was able to scan the culinary landscape of North Holland and design 5 relevant dishes:
== Five new resilient dutch dishes ==
==== [[ Bokkenvlaai ]] ====
==== [[ Gepofte aardappel haring ]] ====
==== [[ Lunetten kroket ]] ====
==== [[ Koningsdag wortel tompoes ]] ====
==== [[ Queen of Night, calvinistisch brood ]] ====

May they be, at times, more resilient on a cultural level than on the environmental one (and vice versa), each of this dishes was meant to put forward a different mean of telling a story: as in the adaptation of a existing tradition, the secret fabrication of a new one, an homage to an historical event or a vernacular recipe.
These dishes were showcased to the public on the first weekend of February at fanfare Amsterdam. Each one of them, soberly displayed on its plate, was accompanied by a five minute audio presentation(*) of its story and the reasons of its resilience.
Showcased on the wall as long receipts, each dish and each of its ingredient was evaluated (i.e. type of production, impact on the soil, carbon footprint, transport, wrapping, cultural relevance, etc…) and rated. To accompany the presentation, bite size tasters were offered to the public. On its way out, postcards displaying a picture of each dish as well as its recipe as well as little bags of dried sourdough(**) were up to grab.

== Notes ==

(*)These stories are still available today as podcasts on the Podcast app (by researching The Soft Protest Digest) or on Soundcloud.

(**)This sourdough (labeled like a fictional brand named Sour Doc) was meant to be reactivated and used as a starter in the making of the Queen of Night, calvinistisch brood.

The immersive table (five recipes)

2019-02-26T16:45:07Z

The soft protest digest:

To start off 2019, Adel Cersaque and Nickie Sigurdsson, together as The Soft Protest Digest, were invited as residents of the M4 Gast Atelier by fanfare Amsterdam. From its studio, located on one of the central canals of Amsterdam, the collective followed multiple parallel tasks in order to design a range of both culturally and environmentally resilient dishes for the residents of the North Holland region.

Hereby, the guidelines followed by The Soft Protest Digest throughout the month of January: 
1) Pick one to two ingredients each. Thoroughly research its history, its contemporary use in dutch cuisine and its production in Holland. 
2) Find the best regional producers of this ingredient, bike to their farms, taste, buy and include their products in the preparation of new resilient dishes. 
3) Design a tool which would able the collective to negotiate, grade and compare both the cultural and environmental resilience of crops, dairy, meat products and new dishes. 
4) Organise a few preliminary private tastings of the new dishes in order to confront them to a small group of dutchs” before publicly proposing them to the residents of the North Holland region. 
5) Make every meal part of the overall research by cooking typical dutch dishes for lunch and dinner.

By following these guidelines, The Soft Protest Digest was able to scan the culinary landscape of North Holland and design 5 relevant dishes:
== Five new resilient dutch dishes ==
==== [[ Bokkenvlaai ]] ====
==== [[ Gepofte aardappel haring ]] ====
==== [[ Lunetten kroket ]] ====
==== [[ Koningsdag wortel tompoes ]] ====
==== [[ Queen of Night, calvinistisch brood ]] ====

May they be, at times, more resilient on a cultural level than on the environmental one (and vice versa), each of this dishes was meant to put forward a different mean of telling a story: as in the adaptation of a existing tradition, the secret fabrication of a new one, an homage to an historical event or a vernacular recipe.
These dishes were showcased to the public on the first weekend of February at fanfare Amsterdam. Each one of them, soberly displayed on its plate, was accompanied by a five minute audio presentation(*) of its story and the reasons of its resilience.
Showcased on the wall as long receipts, each dish and each of its ingredient was evaluated (i.e. type of production, impact on the soil, carbon footprint, transport, wrapping, cultural relevance, etc…) and rated. To accompany the presentation, bite size tasters were offered to the public. On its way out, postcards displaying a picture of each dish as well as its recipe as well as little bags of dried sourdough(**) were up to grab.

== Notes ==

(*)These stories are still available today as podcasts on the Podcast app (by researching The Soft Protest Digest) or on Soundcloud.
(**)This sourdough (labeled like a fictional brand named Sour Doc) was meant to be reactivated and used as a starter in the making of the Queen of Night, calvinistisch brood.

The immersive table (five recipes)

2019-02-26T16:44:48Z

The soft protest digest:

To start off 2019, Adel Cersaque and Nickie Sigurdsson, together as The Soft Protest Digest, were invited as residents of the M4 Gast Atelier by fanfare Amsterdam. From its studio, located on one of the central canals of Amsterdam, the collective followed multiple parallel tasks in order to design a range of both culturally and environmentally resilient dishes for the residents of the North Holland region.

Hereby, the guidelines followed by The Soft Protest Digest throughout the month of January: 
1) Pick one to two ingredients each. Thoroughly research its history, its contemporary use in dutch cuisine and its production in Holland. 
2) Find the best regional producers of this ingredient, bike to their farms, taste, buy and include their products in the preparation of new resilient dishes. 
3) Design a tool which would able the collective to negotiate, grade and compare both the cultural and environmental resilience of crops, dairy, meat products and new dishes. 
4) Organise a few preliminary private tastings of the new dishes in order to confront them to a small group of dutchs” before publicly proposing them to the residents of the North Holland region. 
5) Make every meal part of the overall research by cooking typical dutch dishes for lunch and dinner.

By following these guidelines, The Soft Protest Digest was able to scan the culinary landscape of North Holland and design 5 relevant dishes:
== Five new resilient dutch dishes ==
==== [[ Bokkenvlaai ]] ====
==== [[ Gepofte aardappel haring ]] ====
==== [[ Lunetten kroket ]] ====
==== [[ Koningsdag wortel tompoes ]] ====
==== [[ Queen of Night, calvinistisch brood ]] ====

May they be, at times, more resilient on a cultural level than on the environmental one (and vice versa), each of this dishes was meant to put forward a different mean of telling a story: as in the adaptation of a existing tradition, the secret fabrication of a new one, an homage to an historical event or a vernacular recipe.
These dishes were showcased to the public on the first weekend of February at fanfare Amsterdam. Each one of them, soberly displayed on its plate, was accompanied by a five minute audio presentation(*) of its story and the reasons of its resilience.
Showcased on the wall as long receipts, each dish and each of its ingredient was evaluated (i.e. type of production, impact on the soil, carbon footprint, transport, wrapping, cultural relevance, etc…) and rated. To accompany the presentation, bite size tasters were offered to the public. On its way out, postcards displaying a picture of each dish as well as its recipe as well as little bags of dried sourdough(**) were up to grab.

== Notes ==

*These stories are still available today as podcasts on the Podcast app (by researching The Soft Protest Digest) or on Soundcloud.
**This sourdough (labeled like a fictional brand named Sour Doc) was meant to be reactivated and used as a starter in the making of the Queen of Night, calvinistisch brood.

The immersive table (five recipes)

2019-02-26T16:41:39Z

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To start off 2019, Adel Cersaque and Nickie Sigurdsson, together as The Soft Protest Digest, were invited as residents of the M4 Gast Atelier by fanfare Amsterdam. From its studio, located on one of the central canals of Amsterdam, the collective followed multiple parallel tasks in order to design a range of both culturally and environmentally resilient dishes for the residents of the North Holland region.

Hereby, the guidelines followed by The Soft Protest Digest throughout the month of January: 
1) Pick one to two ingredients each. Thoroughly research its history, its contemporary use in dutch cuisine and its production in Holland. 
2) Find the best regional producers of this ingredient, bike to their farms, taste, buy and include their products in the preparation of new resilient dishes. 
3) Design a tool which would able the collective to negotiate, grade and compare both the cultural and environmental resilience of crops, dairy, meat products and new dishes. 
4) Organise a few preliminary private tastings of the new dishes in order to confront them to a small group of dutchs” before publicly proposing them to the residents of the North Holland region. 
5) Make every meal part of the overall research by cooking typical dutch dishes for lunch and dinner.

By following these guidelines, The Soft Protest Digest was able to scan the culinary landscape of North Holland and design 5 relevant dishes:
== Five new resilient dutch dishes ==
==== [[ Bokkenvlaai ]] ====
==== [[ Gepofte aardappel haring ]] ====
==== [[ Lunetten kroket ]] ====
==== [[ Koningsdag wortel tompoes ]] ====
==== [[ Queen of Night, calvinistisch brood ]] ====

May they be, at times, more resilient on a cultural level than on the environmental one (and vice versa), each of this dishes was meant to put forward a different mean of telling a story: as in the adaptation of a existing tradition, the secret fabrication of a new one, an homage to an historical event or a vernacular recipe.
These dishes were showcased to the public on the first weekend of February at fanfare Amsterdam. Each one of them, soberly displayed on its plate, was accompanied by a five minute audio presentation* of its story and the reasons of its resilience.
Showcased on the wall as long receipts, each dish and each of its ingredient was evaluated (i.e. type of production, impact on the soil, carbon footprint, transport, wrapping, cultural relevance, etc…) and rated. To accompany the presentation, bite size tasters were offered to the public. On its way out, postcards displaying a picture of each dish as well as its recipe as well as little bags of dried sourdough** were up to grab.

*These stories are still available today as podcasts on the Podcast app (by researching The Soft Protest Digest) or on Soundcloud.
**This sourdough (labeled like a fictional brand named Sour Doc) was meant to be reactivated and used as a starter in the making of the Queen of Night, calvinistisch brood.

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2019-02-26T16:35:04Z

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2019-02-26T16:31:40Z

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2019-02-26T16:31:19Z

The soft protest digest: /* Nederland edition */

The Soft Protest, Digest is a research collective involving Danish farmer and artist Nickie Sigurdsson and French design duo Adel Cersaque.

Centering its research around food history, agriculture and the social and political ties to what constitutes a food culture, the collective aims to design environmentally resilient diets. May this research be proposed to the residents of a neighborhood, a city, a region or a state, The Soft Protest Digest believes in the usage of storytelling as a way to create or adapt food traditions, recipes and diets which would take into account the cultural heritage and emotional bond between the eater and its local gastronomy.
Engaging with the community through eventful meals, workshops and talks, the collective seeks to encompass the knowledge and ressources of the actors at hand in the production of a vernacular food culture in order to design consistent alternatives.

== EDITIONS ==
==== [[ Nederland edition ]] ====
Since the fall of 2018 onwards, the Nederland edition of The Soft Protest, Digest has been addressing the eating habits of the dutch and, more particularly, of the inhabitants of the North Holland region. Establishing its base in the multicultural Amsterdam, the collective has been undergoing a profound phasing to the dutch food culture and history in order to work out its double edged relationship to alimentation. Indeed, how is it that a country such as the Netherlands appears to be left with a non-flourishing food culture while possessing a thriving food industry (i.e expansion of vegetal meat replacement and massive drone-driven greenhouse productions)? Its gastronomy, still, appears to be of a country which would be dealing with financial crisis, famine and arduous agriculture (i.e inexpensive preserved herrings, fried stews, hearty ragouts and coarse bean soups). Most of the dutch staples have, in fact, not much evolved since the second half of the 18th century and call, nowadays, on the disproportionate use of processed meats, precut vegetables and industrial preparations in their fabrication.
To that end, by meeting with food historians, farmers, cooks and knowledgeable citizens of the North Holland region; by researching the history of the cuisine and agriculture of the Netherlands; by tasting and learning how to cook à la Dutch; The Soft Protest, Digest aims to draw new dietary paths in the dutch food landscape which would altogether be more culturally rooted then vegan patties and more climate-resilient than the rookworst.

==== [[ Saint-Étienne ]] ====

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2019-02-26T16:30:21Z

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2019-02-26T16:29:37Z

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2019-02-26T16:28:41Z

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