Common Love,
Aesthetics of Becoming
April 27–June 11, 2011
Dave Arnold
Untitled
6 inkjet prints from the blog www.cookingissues.com
Each 8 x 10 in.
Courtesy the artist
Director of Culinary Technology at the French Culinary Institute in New York, Dave Arnold utilizes new technologies and ingredients to transform the ways in which food is prepared, cooked, and experienced. His informative blog, www.cookingissues.com, takes traditional cooking lessons and recipes and turns them on their heads by offering innovative suggestions for experimentation in the kitchen. Arnold's sophisticated understanding of scientific methods, organic ingredients, and advanced technological processes allows for an enhanced and productive experience of food. For example, his "ketchup couverture" recipe presents a form of alternative chocolate-making: in other words, ketchup prepared in the style of hard chocolate and used to augment foods like potato chips and chicken.