Lost & Found Pair - Bacchanalia No, 07 Van Abbemuseum

↗ Social designer, food enthusiast, bitter reclaimer and researcher working at the intersection of food, ecology, and social practices. My work explores how sensory experiences (especially taste) can reconnect us to what has been bred out, forgotten, or overlooked. Through foraging, craft and collaboration I create tools, tastings and narratives to invite new ways of relating to food, the natural world and lost knowledge.

Lost & Found Pair - Bacchanalia No, 07 Van Abbemuseum

Mar 15 2025

A cleansing tasting to celebrate the spring equinox, consisting of a drink and bite pairing to offer a multisensorial food experience involving seasonal, foraged, bitter and fresh ingredients. During the night of Bacchanalia Party No, 07 this food experience was treated as part of the Van Abbemuseum collection. Partnered up with Violeta Perez, we created bitesize artifacts to enter the night. They were treated as such with a museum caption, storytelling, lights, experimental shapes, textures an flavours. Giving a stage to the forgotten ingredients that can be found in the city, brought by the spring equinox. Curating a flavour palette to tease taste buds before dancing the night away

“A drink and a sweet treat challenge the food system that dictates what and how we eat. As supermarket pricing inflates local foods and technology steers our choice; seasonality, foraging and once-essential flavours like bitterness, become acts of quiet defiance.
What food qualifies as natural? Who has the time, access, or right to harvest freely? By challenging the systems that shape our diets, market forces, surveillance and taste engineering, this activation reclaims food as a space of agency, questioning nutritional scarcity and the power embedded in every bite.”

Back to bitter Fizz
By reintroducing foraged, bitter dandelion leaves, this drink becomes a quiet act of resistance, as foraging fights the centralisation of food systems. Next to this, bitterness stimulates the natural digestive system, has liver cleansing purposes and helps to break down a greasy meal.
This drink invites you to reflect on taste narration of the food system and lost flavours, asking: What if bitterness had never been erased? What if we took food back into our own hands?

Bittersweet Mouthful
This bite embodies the simplicity of seasonal ingredients; caramelised pear on a base of oat crumble, infused with dandelion extract, celebrating pure ingredients and highlighting pure tastes. In this bite, bitterness is not masked but balanced. Sweetness accompanies it, inviting a reconsideration of how we perceive and value taste. Topped with a dandelion leaf crisp it finishes with a light texture that melts on your palate.”

ED news article Studio 040 news article

seasonal foraging, multisensory tasting, bitter flavours, edible storytelling, experimental plating, museum setting, secret dining, food as resistance, sensory rituals, urban wild food plants, lost taste

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