L’Integrale with Tommaso Melilli and Luca Trevisani

The Italian magazine L’integrale, led by Diletta Sereni, stages “Mangiare il mare” (Eating the Sea) with visual artist Luca Trevisani, who curated the setup of the project, and chef/writer Tommaso Melilli, who will manage the taste experience. The sea of the future is empty of fish: people thus find themselves exploring the boundaries of what they are used to fishing. On the stage, we see a kitchen-pantry that can extract the flavor of the sea with broths, juices, and gravies based on invasive species that have supplanted the ones we currently know. In the sea of the future, even stones become resources of taste and nourishment, and algae, now confined to the margins of our culture, become instead a crucial ecological resource, as both food and medicine. The installation represents this point of view: with algae set on mirror-finish steel structures and totems built with rocks and crabs, placed on the large table. The presentation/talk will give a sneak peek of the upcoming issue of the magazine, titled “Splash, seas and other waters”. The focus will be on themes such as the value of forgotten sea things as food, the history of broths as the basic ingredient at the origin of restaurants as we know them now, and the symbolic value of water-food that can take on any possible flavor. Shedding light on how we eat the sea, with which objects, gestures, and forms of socialization.

Taste Experience with Tommaso Melilli 
9:30am - 12:30pm
4:30pm – 6:00pm

Food design Arena, Pavilions 2 - 4