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 One of the main reasons behind the collapse of food industry in this scenario is antibiotic resistance. The big pharma doesn't provide us with weapons to fight bacteria, and instead the old tradition of (wild) fermentation is thriving again, lead by bio-hackers and militant fermenters. As farming above ground isn't an option any longer, people are cultivating mushrooms in squatted bunkers and fermenting them in post-apocalyptic fermentation vats. This dish is an example of how people in this scenario plan to keep the "good" bacteria growing to keep the "bad" ones at bay. We served simple button mushrooms that are easy to cultivate and fermented them for a few days is some good Belgian beer.
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 In the world of collapsed food systems dietary supplements are a big industry. As an example of an already booming industry in both natural and artificial [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_%28dietary_supplement%29|Spirulina]], we served this popular cyanobacteria in a capsule.
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 ==== Popping dates ====
-Transform Scenario has a closed loop industrial production, and there is virtually no pollution. CO2 is captured and transformed into other useful products, such as for example [[http://www.molecule-r.com/en/content/21-popping-sugar|popping sugar]]. In this dish the sugar comes in lavish chocolate coating, as a sprinkle on the sweet [[http://datecoop.com/mazafati-dates/|Mazafati dates] stuffed with rough sesame tahini. A dish that transforms in contact with your mouth - a symbol of the ultra-boutiqueness of some of the Transform's gastronomy.
+Transform Scenario has a closed loop industrial production, and there is virtually no pollution. CO2 is captured and transformed into other useful products, such as for example [[http://www.molecule-r.com/en/content/21-popping-sugar|popping sugar]]. In this dish the sugar comes in lavish chocolate coating, as a sprinkle on the sweet [[http://datecoop.com/mazafati-dates/|Mazafati dates]] stuffed with rough sesame tahini. A dish that transforms in contact with your mouth - a symbol of the ultra-boutiqueness of some of the Transform's gastronomy.
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+Ingredients:
+  * 500g Mazafati dates
+  * 1 small jar of thick (non liquid) tahini (sesame paste)
+  * a few teaspoons of chocolate coated popping sugar
+Preparation: Pit the dates beforehand and keep cool. Just before serving fill each date with a small amount of tahini (using a big syringe or a small teaspoon).
+Serving: Sprinkle the stuffed dates with popping sugar and serve on a large lightly coloured serving plate.
+Sourcing: Dates came from a Pakistani shop in Molenbeek, Belgium. Tahini was bought in the Natural Corner organic shop, popping sugar from Mmmmh, both in Brussels, Belgium.
 ==== Carrots and violets ====
+Pairing flowers and root-vegetables seems like a food-forest pairing that Transform inhabitants might choose for their breakfast, light dessert or a snack freshly picked from one of the many urban productive gardens. Furthermore the molecular pairing of carrots and violets would definitely be known to their food design-science labs. We also paired the ingredients by colour, as design and aesthetics seem to be an important consideration in this scenario. Deep orange and purple are quite a stimulating combination…
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+Ingredients:
+  * 5 purple carrots
+  * a handful of candied violets (and a few more for serving)
+  * urban honey (to taste)
+  * juice of 1/2 lemon
+Preparation: Grate the carrots by hand or using an electric mixer. Pour lemon juice and mix as soon as possible so the carrots don’t loose their bright colour. Chop candied violets as fine as you can and mix with the carrots. Add a teaspoon of honey, mix well and taste. If you prefer a sweeter taste, keep adding honey until you obtain the taste you like. Press the mixture down with a ladle to remove excess air, place in an airtight container and leave in the fridge for a few hours.
+Serving: Pour a few spoonfulls of the mixture into small bowls (we used black Japanese lacquered wooden bowls). Decorate with a few whole candied violets. Serve with a range of small silver teaspoons.
+Sourcing: Carrots and lemon came from Les Tanneurs organic market, violets from AM Sweet, urban honey from FoAM member and bee-keeper Christina Stadlbauer, the bowls from a closed down Japanese restaurant in Amsterdam and the tea-spoons from the flea market in Brussels.
 ==== Sweet basil teas ====
+To end the menu we served some digestive herbal iced teas. All of the teas had health benefits, but were also pleasing to the eye, albeit unnerving for some of our guests who have not seen steeped basil seeds before. They resemble tiny eyes of tadpoles, and their texture is quite slippery. Most people were keen to try them anyway. We paired the basil seeds with a hibiscus, lavender & rose and mallow teas. Hibiscus to ward off the flu season, lavender and rose as a calming and headache reducing elixir and mallow for cleansing our breathing apparatus. Talking about ethnobotanical inspirations behind this drink allowed us to talk a bit about the human-plant interaction that has deep consequences in the Transform scenario. We hope our visitors left slightly transformed themselves…
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+Ingredients:
+  * 2 teaspoons of sweet basil seeds
+  * 1 handful of hibiscus flowers
+  * 2 tsp dried lavender
+  * 2 tsp dried roses
+  * 5 tsp dried mallow (+ 1 tsp should be kept apart to add just before serving)
+  * sugar/honey/stevia to taste
+  * ~3l boiling water
+Preparation:
+Basil seeds: Pour the basil seeds in a jar and cover them with ample water (the water  should cover at least 5cm above the seeds). The seeds will expand over about 10 minutes. Make sure that they don’t form a gel, otherwise they’ll stick to each other - add some more water in this case. The swollen seeds should still be 'swimming' in a bit of liquid  when they stop expanding. Place the closed jar in the fridge for a few hours.
+Iced teas: Steep the flowers separately in boiling water. For the quantities above we used between 500ml and 1l of water - it depends how strong you like the tea. Add a sweetener if you like, to your taste, while the water is still warm. Cool down, then chill in the fridge overnight. A note about the mallow tea: the flowers will colour the tea a beautiful blue when you just put them in, then turn purple and eventually yellow. If you want to serve a strikingly coloured drink, add a teaspoon of the flowers to the tea just before serving.
+Serving: In small glasses pour first a teaspoon of basil seeds, then fill the glass with one of the flower teas.
+Sourcing: Sweet basil seeds came from the Central Market in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Hibiscus flowers were a gift from Veronique Linard that she picked up while working with crafter-jewellers in Burkina Faso. Dried lavender came from a lavender farm in Istria, Croatia, roses and mallow came from Mmmmh in Brussels.