Le Corbuffet 🥄 Journal

Over the next few days, I’m going to share some recipes from the very rare and out-of-print Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dining. 🌐 The first recipe for Snow Candy (scroll 👉) is from Bucky Fuller’s friend, Neva Goodwin. ❄️🍬SNOW CANDY🍬❄️ Or: what do with your excess snow. “Waste is just a wrongly utilized resource.” - Buckminster Fuller 1 cup sugar 1/4 cup molasses 1 stick butter 1 tbs vinegar 1 tbs boiling water A few grains of salt Combine all ingredients in a heavy pot. Stir. Heat to between 238 and 290F. (The hotter you make it the harder it will get.) Take the pot outside and dribble the mixture onto the snow in patterns— lines, dots, whatever. In a few minutes, when it is cool and hard, lift it with forks. Indoors, put it onto cake racks until any snow that came with it has dripped off. . N.B- Avoid YELLOW SNOW at all costs. #buckminsterfuller #synergetics #dymaxiondining #designandfood

#MarcelDuchamp, Wedge of Chastity, 1954 🧀 During WW2, #Duchamp was faced with the challenge of transporting his artistic materials out of Europe on his way to the US. His strategem involved posing as a #cheese merchant to get through Nazi checkpoints in Paris. #checkmate #arttrumpshate #cheesesandwich 🐁 (at Paris, France)

I wrote about Sigfried Giedion, the mechanization of bread, and the epistemology of margarine in ‘Reaper: Richard Hamilton, Sigfried Giedion’ — a catalogue for the eponymous exhibition at @ethzurich last summer. Link to the essay in bio👆🍞🥖🥐@jrpringier @gtaexhibitions . . #sigfriedgiedion #biotechnology #mechanizationtakescommand #bread #richardhamilton #reaper #margarine

The US is currently experiencing a dairy oversupply of unprecedented proportions: 1.3 billion pounds of cheese currently sits in cold storage. According to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, farmers dumped nearly 50 million gallons of unsold milk last year—literally poured it into the ground—due to the global decrease in the demand for dairy, along with decades of over-engineering cattle. The federal government had to bail out dairy farmers twice in 2016 by purchasing $20 million worth of surplus cheese. A marketing group called Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), created by the National Dairy Promotion Board in the ‘90s (which farmers are legally obliged to sponsor) has been working overtime to create new cheese food stuffs, along with their attendant technologies, inserting cheese into places where it’s never been before to support capital’s ever-expanding food production paradigm. DMI’s innovations include Taco Bell’s Quesalupa, McDonald’s switch from margarine to butter, Pizza Hut’s Stuffed Crust Pizza and the #gotmilk? campaign. . Pictured #UrsFischer, Happy Cheese, 2016 (at Cheese)

Posthuman space crackers @becomingdigital 🌝 (at Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning)

UFO Group's Boutique "Il Mago di Oz", Viareggio, 1969 🧀 (at Viareggio, Italy)

Working on a freeform cracker that keeps the balance btwn earth & sea, inspired by Ruth Asawa’s organic wire sculptures. . . Spelt, black sesame powder and seed, roasted wild sesame, kelp, nori, sesame and olive oil, activated charcoal, sea salt. #wip . . #ruthasawa #artandfood #sesame #seaweed #charcoal #allnatural (at Ruth Asawa Fountain)

Throughout the late sixties Fluxus artist Alison Knowles visited the same luncheonette in Chelsea at noon, and ordered the same meal. She came to think of the lunch as a performance, and published an event score, which reads: "The Identical Lunch: a tunafish sandwich on wheat toast with lettuce and butter, no mayo, and a large glass of buttermilk or a cup of soup was and is eaten many days of each week at the same place and at about the same time." Her friends were invited to participate in the performance by consuming her daily spread with her. Their range of experiences with the same meal pointed to the work’s main philosophical gambit: in human experience, no object is identical to itself. 🥪🥛 . Video taken from the exhibition, “Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art,” at @smartmuseum in 2012. #alisonknowles #fluxus #foodart #tunafish #lettuce #butter #nomayo #buttermilk #identicallunch (at New York, New York)

Marcel Broodthaers, Décor: A Conquest, c. 1974 🦀 #marcelbroodthaers #shellfish (at Aspen Art Museum)

#sourdoughstarter (at Brooklyn, New York)

#spelt #sorghum #wip (at Brooklyn, New York)

Three recipes by Cedric Price for Guiding the Lily. . Taken from Synergetic Stew, published by the Buckminster Fuller Institute . #cedricprice #basting #buckminsterfuller #foodanddesign (at Cedric Price Architects)

Cedric Price’s recipe for Gilding the Lily (part deux) was a favourite of Bucky Fuller’s 🍑 . . #buckminsterfuller #cedricprice #peach #brandy #flambe #designandfood (at Cedric Price Architects)

Womanhouse, Dining Room, 1972 Womanhouse was an immersive art installation, exhibition and performance space organized by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, co-founders of the CalArts Feminist Art Program. When the newly formed program found itself without an adequate space in 1971, its students and teachers decided to relocate to a dilapidated mansion in Hollywood to critically explore the relationship between gender, housing and domesticity. The students renovated the house to build the Womanhouse installation, which had over 10,000 visitors. Pictured above are images from the Dining Room, created by Karen Lecoq, Robin Mitchell, Sherry Brody, Faith Wilding, Beth Bachenheimer, Miriam Schapiro. . #womanhouse #KarenLecoq #RobinMitchell #SherryBrody #FaithWilding #BethBachenheimer #JudyChicago #feministart #feministarthistory #artandfood (at Hollywood)

Isamu Noguchi and Buckminster Fuller’s bromance began in 1929 when they met at Romany Marie’s, a bohemian cafe in Greenwich Village popular amongst the intelligentsia. Constantin Brancusi had recommended Romany Marie’s to Noguchi while he was in Paris working with the Romanian sculptor on a Guggenheim Fellowship. (Bruncusi liked to visit the cafe with Matisse, as one does.) Meanwhile, Fuller was a regular at Marie’s, having designed the interior with aluminium paint and furniture in exchange for meals. One of his Dymaxion schemes (1929) was adapted as a hanging restaurant for Marie. Scroll to read Noguchi’s and Fuller’s accounts of their friendship which blossomed at the cafe. Pictured: * Ezra Pound, Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi in Spoleto, 1967 * Excerpts from Synergetic Stew * Buckminster Fuller, Proposed Dymaxion Hanging Restaurant for Romany Marie, project, Sketch, 1929, in the collection of @themuseumofmodernart #isamunoguchi #buckminsterfuller #romanymarie #dymaxion #brancusi #matisse #coffee #soup #foodandfriendship #artandfood #designandfood (at The Noguchi Museum)

Varieties of bread shown as design artifacts shaped by different cultures and rituals. Hans Hollein, MANtransFORMS, Cooper Hewitt, 1976 #inspo #staytuned . #hanshollein #mantransforms #bread (at Cooper Hewitt)

Cedric Price’s edible two 🌴🌴 island 🍨 Price’s recipe for brandied peaches 🍑 “Gilding the Lily Part II” is coming soon. Stay tuned! . . #cedricprice #ediblearchitecture