Alex Haw has been running his potluck supperclub Latitudinal Cuisine ‘Collective Eating Through Time and Space’since last May; each week 15 people turn up, explore and cook dishes from a different latitude of the globe. This week we are tackling 15 degrees longitude which includes Graz in Austria, the Congo, Svalbard, Bari in Italy, Sweden, Libya…
“Longitude focuses us away from our historic preference for small European countries towards the power, might and width of spreading monsters like the US, Canada, China and Russia, which spans almost half the globe and year. We spend 38 days in Mongolia and 40 days in Kazakhstan, but only 72 hours in Portugal.”
“Surprisingly, Italy – which looks so long and thin (though note the Mercator Projection’s distortions) spans more longitudes (12) than its total latitudes we perused last year”
“Chile, which endured so interminably the whole of last year, from the equator through to the end of the world and the year, now disappears in a flash, spanning only between day 293 and day 311 – a little over 2 weeks, bridging Halloween between 20thOctober (20.10.210!) & the 7th November.”
Great concept – and it all looks utterly delicious!
What a fascinating idea – I love the pictures of everyone sharing their dishes (and the stove). It's food blogging made flesh…
thanks msml, come again – & NB all welcome.
promise to keep mails more explicable ;
NB svalbard is a whole COUNTRY – northernmost inhabited part of world – and apocalypict agriculture's main hope as the world's main deep cold storage with the global seed vault
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Thanks Alex, post corrected now. I loved the evening and will certainly return…
the strudel looks so flaky and delish. i love the idea of everyone bringing smthg fascinating. the congolese dish sounds amazing, i love their cuisine. what a great evening this seems to have been. x
I really enjoyed it. Great company, great food and a great vibe. Highly recommended.