The future of food

One of the most fascinating people I have encountered is one Marije Vogelzang a Dutch food artist/innovator and designer. I met her at the Design Indaba, her company Proef plays with their food – all the time. “According to Marije , food is already perfectly designed by nature. Instead, her designs focus around the verb ‘to eat’. Vogelzang is inspired by the origin of food and the preparation, etiquette, history and culture around it. For this reason, she doesn’t associate as a ‘food designer’, but as the first ‘eating-designer’ in The Netherlands.” I was reminded of her experiments with the nature of food ( one of which is pictured above) and eating when I read this article about the ‘Restaurant of the Future’ at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Coming to food near you in the near future:
“Intelligent packaging: sensors in the wrappers of fresh meat and veg that will tell the retailer — or you — what the food’s temperature or state of freshness is. They could trigger the release of gases or chemicals such as nano-silver to change the internal climate or kill microbes.
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