The Green Avant-Garde: Food Hackers and Cyberagrarians

The Spice Mix SuperComputer is a massive mobile food machine, which allows users to create, print and taste a unique blend of spices from millions of possible combinations. . . . Users plug into the bespoke Olfactory Synthesizer, combine and compare smells from the database of international spices, then choose their favorites. After the computer processes and interprets the selection, the foodprinting is complete, and users take their customized container of spices to the BetaTasterTM food counter to share recipes and experiences. . . . Spices are one of the oldest forms of long distance communication on the planet, but we do not usually treat them as information that can be combined and disseminated as a form of humantohuman communication. —Center for Genomic Gastronomy1