Food has the ability to bring people together by creating opportunities for interaction. It is also a medium for artistic expression and a tool for exploring culture.
Food can provoke thought, emotions, memories and creativity as well as stimulate the senses so it would be a terrible waste not to utilize it.
Gastronomi walks the line between art installation, architecture, event and gastronomy. Each event is unique and provides a playground for experiments creating a
sensual and mental food experience.
A one-off, tailor-made concept is conceived, concocted, and cooked to capture a moment in space through time. Put simply, it is edible architecture.
Exhibition openings, special events, unusual parties, pop- up installations and
workshops are all ideal settings for such an event.
*This may all sound complicated, but it really isn’t.
Melting Pot Dinner
A bespoke eating experience created for The White City Centre, TLV, 2016
The concept dinner took place in the former private dining room of a Jewish German immigrants’ family home, now repurposed as a public research & education center. Diners were invited to gather around a large communal table and experience a typical festive Israeli family meal in a private- public space that evoked a sense of family, home & Gemütlichkeit as well as history, tradition and conviviality.
The Sabbath dinner, a weekly ritual in most Israeli households, is typically composed of an excessively large array of dishes reflecting the ‘Israeli cuisine’; the existing local food culture, local ingredients and the various cuisines and food memories brought by each Diaspora. The abundance of cooking pots formed a new topography; an aesthetic and gastronomic experience indicative of the various cuisines and cultures, both local and from afar, coming together to create a new identity, thus, a melting pot.
Production & realisation: Arch. Sabrina Cegla
Dinner prepared by: Azura & Elran Shrefler
Graphic design: Rachel Kinrot
Viaggio dei gusti
Italian themed concept dinners
created for Villa Dada, by Tollmans
2011
egg open source
Garden to Plate
Pilot program in collaboration with Adi Sokol Katziri and Dafi Man
A food based workshop that aims to enrich and emphasise its importance through fun activities, games and experience.
Shaked school, Ra’anana, 2011
Sensory tasting workshop
Nothing is what it seems, tastes and feels.
A concept tasting menu created for a bloggers workshop
Created for the launch of a diet Yoplait yogurt drink
Commisioned by Tnuva