Watercolour diagram depicting interconnected food science concepts represented as vessels, linked via industrial pipes and botanical plants. Each vessel symbolizes a culinary and scientific process such as fermentation, microbes, and food culture.

We are an interdisciplinary research group based at the
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability,
Technical University of Denmark.

We combine cooking, science & culture for
a flavourful, equitable & ecological food system.

Read more about our approach.

Essays, recipes, scientific digests & more

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Recent publications

People

Some of the team, with Harold McGee
(who was sadly only visiting)

Appearances

Upcoming

‘Domestication Rewilded: a framework in eight dimensions for parsing domestication concepts across disciplines’ (conference talk), Josh Evans, on panel ‘Unfinished Business and Untold Stories: Digging into the Complexity of “Animal Domestication”’, Society for American Archaeology Conference, Denver, USA, 23-27 Apr 2025.

‘Cultivating Agriculture as Culture’ (invited talk), Josh Evans, Aral Culture Summit, Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation, Samarkand / Nukus, UZ, 4-6 April 2025.

‘Sadan påvirker din frokost din adfærd [How your lunch affects your behaviour]’ (invited interview), Josh Evans in conversation with Professor Tom Gilbert on holobiont science,Verden Forsøgt Forklaret [The researched world, explained], University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, DK, 24 Oct 2024.

‘What does space miso taste like?’ (news article), Caroline Kothe, Kim Wejendorp and Josh Evans, Article in The Economist, online, 2 Apr 2025.

Recent

We are an interdisciplinary research group based at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability,
Technical University of Denmark.

We combine cooking, science
& culture for a flavourful, equitable & ecological food system.

Read more about our approach.

Essays, recipes,
scientific digests & more

Read more

Recent publications

People

The team, with Harold McGee
(who was sadly only visiting)

Appearances

Upcoming

‘Domestication Rewilded: a framework in eight dimensions for parsing domestication concepts across disciplines’ (conference talk), Josh Evans, on panel ‘Unfinished Business and Untold Stories: Digging into the Complexity of “Animal Domestication”’, Society for American Archaeology Conference, Denver, USA, 23-27 Apr 2025.

Recent

‘Cultivating Agriculture as Culture’ (invited talk), Josh Evans, Aral Culture Summit, Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation, Samarkand / Nukus, UZ, 4-6 April 2025.


‘Sadan påvirker din frokost din adfærd [How your lunch affects your behaviour]’ (invited interview), Josh Evans in conversation with Professor Tom Gilbert on holobiont science,Verden Forsøgt Forklaret [The researched world, explained], University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, DK, 24 Oct 2024.

'Interview with Taeko Hamada' (interview), Taeko Hamada, Women in Gastronomy interview series, Basque Culinary Center, online, 28 Apr 2024.