The Cross(x)Species adventure club enlists humans to explore a biodiverse and delicious future;  to engage in culinary experiments;  invest in food innovation; and participate in re-designing our collective relationship to natural systems.

Centered around extraordinary, spectacular and artful food designed with rising star Mihir Desai, Natalie Jeremijenko and team draw on molecular gastronomy, behavioral ecology, ecosystems science, space systems engineering, industrial ecology, performance art, and human micro biome resources to develop food experiences that elaborate the systems and pleasures of productive intensified food futures. With design oversight and production by Emilie Baltz (of Fork and Design) adventurers are in for an extraordinary experience.

On June 19th, the Cross(x)Species Adventure Club invites you to explore new foods and food systems designed to augment biodiversity and improve environmental health. Recruiting the adventurous for an extravagant, many-course dinner at 7pm (pre-dinner workshop at 3pm) themed around Lifestyles of the Wet and Slimey.

Seating is strictly limited, but with sufficient adventurers a Sunday 20th supper club and workshop may be added…

Cross(x)Species what?
Reducing the environmental costs involved production, distribution, preparation and ingestion of foods is necessary but not sufficient. We can do more. Jeremijenko’s Cross(x)Species Cook Book and Adventure Club addresses the challenge of designing food systems that promote, augment and remediate ecosystems, that amplify the positive androgenic effect, rather than simply lessening the negative. Through wilderness adventures for your pallette you can support the research behind the Cross(x)Species Adventure Club and explore food webs,  community structure, chemistry, nutrient cycles and the behavior of organisms within the context of complex ecological systems. For instance when enjoying the luxuriant creaminess of nanoWaterBuffalo Icecream [nano because of the size of the liquid nitrogen submerged ice crystals] you promote the producers (water buffalo) who demand reconstructed wetlands to reverse ongoing wetland loss for their own grazing and culinary preferences.  Wetlands, are also the most effective  ecosystems for sequestering carbon, and are required to produce the delectable; Wetkisses: Marsh*mallows for Kissing Frogs formerly known as Prince; and other items from the Lifestyles of the Wet and Slimy menu.  Constructed wetlands can be designed as biodiversity hotspots to redress the greatest species extinction crisis the earth has witnessed since the disappearance of dinosaurs. Each adventurous mouthful of Cross(x)Species Adventure Club menu experiments will guide and instantiate these emergent food systems and habitats.

$100 Note
There is a fee associated with these events to defray the costs involved in producing the food and drinks, in addition to the lab equipment, and costs to our marvelous hosts: Eyebeam Museum. The cost is comparable to other supper clubs in NYC, and is a fraction of a similar restaurant meal. Initially we thought that your monetary contribution could support OOZ, Cross(x)Species research, and our supporting organizations as fund raising dinners. However, we decided to keep the fee to a minimum while sufficient to cover food of exceptional provenance. A contribution that exceeds the minimum will support this research and development–any micro-investment will be acknowledged. However, it is your participation that is most valuable to these Cross(x)Species experiments. Furthermore it is your potential experiential and intellectual contributions that are invaluable to developing food systems that improve environmental health.
Your monetary contributions are none the less appreciated and do confirm your seat. Leave comments for any clarifications required. Thank you for exploring these culinary possibilities.
Here’s to adventurous eating.

Testimonials from previous guests:

Hari Kunzru said of the drinks “like futurist jelly shots with added science” and on the dinner “a delicious banquet that was also a chemistry experiment and a message from the river” (www.harikunzru.com)

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