Futurist Cookbook – Farm is Table

Farm is Table is an earthwork / dining table created from and within the farm soil. The concept was to challenge the perception of an “Farm to Table” Meal. The table is the farm - insinuating a new form of hyper-locality. The long table is at grade, the seating dug into the earth, the weeds, grasses and wildflowers are the centerpiece. 

Chef Caroline Hahm created a multi-course meal - locally sourced and mostly from Treiber Farms itself. Flowers for the meal were planted in the table itself. Farmer and artist Peter Treiber Jr created serving platters and other accoutrements out of farm implements which will offered a contrast with the found classic white dinnerware and stainless steel utensils. In a choreographed event, 30 diners ate together - in community at the earthen table.

The conceptual wellspring for "Farm Is Table" is "A New Futurist Cookbook," a project conceived by Allan Wexler and Michael Yarinsky as a direct response to the 1932 Futurist Cookbook, a manifesto of culinary innovation by F. T. Marinetti.  The project seeks to harness the provocative energy, the emphasis on innovation, and the multi-sensory focus that characterized historical Futurism, but works to redirect these potent methods towards contemporary aims: broader awareness, inclusivity, and a thoughtful re-evaluation of our relationship with food.