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In the middle of December 2020, [[The Soft Protest Digest:About|The Soft Protest Digest]] was invited by the [https://janvaneyck.nl/projects/food-art-film-festival Food Art Film Festival] 2020, run by the Food Lab of the Jan van Eyck Academie; to create a project on food and hostile environments. Wealthy countries from the Western world, like the USA, generally don’t come to mind when thinking about extreme agriculture on hostile lands; but an ecological crisis called [[About eroded soils: our contemporary deserts|the Dust Bowl]] actually coincided with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression the Great Depression] in the 30’s. For the invitation, the collective explored the past Dust Bowl and the actual almond production in California as exemples of ecological crisis caused by land management and climate change. | In the middle of December 2020, [[The Soft Protest Digest:About|The Soft Protest Digest]] was invited by the [https://janvaneyck.nl/projects/food-art-film-festival Food Art Film Festival] 2020, run by the Food Lab of the Jan van Eyck Academie; to create a project on food and hostile environments. Wealthy countries from the Western world, like the USA, generally don’t come to mind when thinking about extreme agriculture on hostile lands; but an ecological crisis called [[About eroded soils: our contemporary deserts|the Dust Bowl]] actually coincided with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression the Great Depression] in the 30’s. For the invitation, the collective explored the past Dust Bowl and the actual almond production in California as exemples of ecological crisis caused by land management and climate change. | ||
# Before the event date, an edible pastry in the shape of an almond was sent in a box, filled with nut species calling on less water input. | # Before the event date, an edible pastry in the shape of an [[Almond|almond]] was sent in a box, filled with nut species calling on less water input. | ||
# On the 17th of December, a movie was screened online, while eating the almond dessert: <i>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plow_That_Broke_the_Plains The plow that broke the plains]</i>, Pare Lorentz, 1936. | # On the 17th of December, a movie was screened online, while eating [[Almond|the almond dessert]]: <i>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plow_That_Broke_the_Plains The plow that broke the plains]</i>, Pare Lorentz, 1936. | ||
# A text making a bound in time between the Dust Bowl crisis and almond production was read: farmers who lost their eroded soils in the 30’s often migrated to California, where almond monocultures are now competing for local water resources. | # A text making a bound in time between the Dust Bowl crisis and almond production was read: farmers who lost their eroded soils in the 30’s often migrated to California, where almond monocultures are now competing for local water resources. | ||
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[[File:theAlmond-making-of-3.jpg|thumb|When opening the box…]] | [[File:theAlmond-making-of-3.jpg|thumb|When opening the box…]] | ||
====The Almond dessert==== | ====The Almond dessert==== | ||
This vegan dessert refers to subtleties, a middle age tradition of luxurious sculptures built with sugar. It is made out of a biscuit akin to the fortune cookie, perfumed with benzaldehyde (almond extract). This shell hides a layer of torched <i>aquafaba</i> marshmallow and wild rosehip jam. | This [[Almond|vegan dessert]] refers to subtleties, a middle age tradition of luxurious sculptures built with sugar. It is made out of a biscuit akin to the fortune cookie, perfumed with benzaldehyde (almond extract). This shell hides a layer of torched <i>aquafaba</i> marshmallow and wild rosehip jam. | ||
====Nuts and seeds to grow==== | ====Nuts and seeds to grow==== | ||