Tastebridge at CCC27

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Tastebridge Foodhacking at CCC27

26th of December - DAY I.

I've arrived to the "snowy" Berlin on the evening of 25th of December. The city was glittering under the fresh white cover and everything look just great. I've made it to the hostel, spend the night and the next day I've hit the CCCB for the first time in my life. Within several hours I was preparing food in nice big kitchen with really cool German team, trying to understand at least the basics. We have done basic sandwiches with margarine, some ham, salami, cheese and tomatoes and cucumber. Nice and simple. I've volunteer to make a cucumber, tomato and onion spread and first Tastebridge hack was on the plate (check the photo).


At the Eve of the first day I've managed to secure a abandoned "incubator" so I've mixed bit of honey, some water and yogurt and honey cooler was on! Supported by 33C to speed it up a bit, my hopes that we can have something nice and tasty on the table before the end of the event were high!


Vegan cucumber, tomato and onion spread just served for angels
Incubator on Honey Cooler and Yogurt Culture

Recipe for a Light Summer Spread

Ingredients

1 cucumber

4 tomatoes

2 onions (middle size)

2 table spoons of black paper

2 table spoons of salt

1 table spoon of vinegar

bread

butter or margarine


Equipment

sharp knife

cutting board

bowl

measuring spoons


Manual

Dice a cucumber and tomatoes on a 2-4 mm cubes and transfer them to the bowl.

Dice an onion on 2-3 mm pieces and transfer it to the bowl.

Add the black pepper and salt and mix the vinegar in.

Taste the mix making sure that the taste is strong and it is salty enough.

Spread on the bread preferably on a layer of butter or margarine so the bread do not get mushy.


27th of December - DAY II.

Well it is interesting how quickly you can adjust to various situations if you have to or even better if you want to. As a reliable food angel I've managed to get access to the kitchen equipment being allowed to start a proper food hacking. In the same time I've got confirmed two time slots for the workshops on preparation of probiotic drinks. As a major achievement I take establishing a food hacking station on one of the major corridors of the event. Huereka!

I've started nice and secure, so first food hack was traditional breath of the coyote [[1]] however this time with emental instead of sharp cheddar cheese (which I've preferred).

The workshop where we have prepared kombucha went really nice and smooth and I do believe that the hackers got the general idea what is the food hacking about and how to do a nice kombucha batch. We have used a black tea colombo and brown evaporated sugar with molasses (taste a bit too strong) fallowing Tastebridge recipe [[2]]. For more please see the photos.

So another day was nicely finished, 2 am and time to go for the hostel a beautiful 45 minutes walk through freezing Berlin.