We are currently looking into various urban ecologies in the city of Ljubljana. Together with Dominik Mahnič, creator of the Artist’s Kitchen Youtube series, and friends we will explore various habitats and environments of urban life, and experimenting with traditional recipes for cooking and eating them.
It’s curcial to plan and adapt your expeditions due to the local weather…
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During our first expedition on snail hunting we went to the the Ljubljana castle, the Ljubljanica canal and allotment gardens near Trnovo.
Follow our field notes and further readings on the urban cuisine wiki.
Umetnikova kuhinja | mestna jaga | polž
see the above instructional video to check what happened….
Schnegge Z’Nacht: Wednesday, 2nd October, 18h, BioTehna lab
Join us for a late afternoon “amuse-bouche d’artiste” at 18h in the BioTehna lab!
If you want to learn more about urban hunting, snail ecology and how artists can survive in urban environments, join us already in the afternoon for preparing and cooking the snails. Dominik Mahnič, creator of the Artist’s Kitchen Youtube series teams up with dusjagr, biohacker and formerly known as a movie maker with titles like “Hase Z’Nacht”. There will be various accompaning retro-musical 8-bit tunes by DJ Stahl
Background
Coming soon… Nutria
“Urban Ecology meets Artists Kitchen”
From Snail Hunting – Session 1. Posted by Marc Dusseiller Dusjagr on 10/04/2013 (22 items)
- "You have to think like a snail…
- The first team of urban snail explorers, September 2013, Ljubljana. Let’s check those…
- First contact! But it’s a small species, not very suitable for eating.
- Follow their trails and you will find them!
- Our first catch! washed and cultured in Bio Tehna
- Tools needed for snail hunting: * wooden stick * plastic bag Maybe they are hiding be…
- Aha… here are you hiding!
- At these days a lot of the snails seem to seek shelter on walls, preferably hanging d…
- … but they are still alive!
- Naaaiice big cutie… this one is gonna feed us well!
- You can reach into private gardens by the plastic bag and the wooden stick.
- Check every couple of minutes if the snails are already creeping out of the plastic b…
- Nice catch for a first try on a sunny saturday afternoon.
- Back in the Bio Tehna lab we were cleaning them nicely and put them in a box.
- If you need some small foods for the snails, check the market after closing. Always a…
- How to make a snail cage…
- After 10 days of starving and daily washing they are ready to be cooked soon.
- Meet Christoph Stähli aka Stahl for the first edition of "Schnegge Z’Nacht"…
- The day of preparation started at the local market to buy onions, garlic and parsil
- Discussing snail recipes with doms and Christoph Stähli
- Some beers, rice, salt and vinegar, and I think we are ready to start.
- Our urban hunting friends are over and we are checking the live snails one more time.
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