Harnessing the positive anchors that surround food and drink, explores and brings to life the new rituals that we can establish in liu of old ones that we might have released while at home. From the perspective of food artist and anthropologist Caroline Hobkinson we unpack the power of rituals that provide us with new anchoring, grounding and navigation.

In this episode we explore the notion of food and drink rituals from the perspective of anthropology, with guest Caroline Hobkinson. We unpack the concept of enhancing rituals that serve, anchor and ground, that we can make our own, which become fundamental to purposefully navigating our days.

The power of the mind and it’s perception are opened up. This altered mindset of mindfulness, savoring experiences to be truly present - even to the unpacking of the dishwasher.

We share with you the Unusual Ingredients project and you are invited on the next show to experience sound, accompanied by certain ingredients, which will modulate and enhance each ingredient.

The headline is that our mind and experience are all open for coaching, coaxing, and exploration. We can choose the experience that serves our higher creative intention.

Unusual ingredients is a multi-sensory project bringing to life the relationships between sound and flavour through live musical events and an album.

Drawing on the latest gastrophysical research into sensory perception, our music uses exact sonic frequencies and musical gestures calibrated to enhance the mouthfeel, flavour and provenance of each ingredient. Think Willy Wonka mixed with electronic music and cutting edge cross-disciplinary science. Unusual ingredients is created by musicians Jacob Thompson-Bell and Adam Martin, and food artist Caroline Hobkinson.

You can reach Caroline at:

www.carolinehobkinson.com or https://unusualingredients.co. on Instagram @caro_hobkinson.

You can get your own kit for the Willy Wonka ingredient sound experiment, the Lockdown kit https://unusualingredients.co/album . The kit for the five ingredients is 10 British Pounds, $13 including postage.

The ingredients are:

Popping Candy

Coffee Sweets

Seaweed

Bubble Gum Stopper Candy

Honey lozenge

If you would like to experience this sourcing your own ingredients, visit Spotify to look at the Unusual Ingredients playlist.

About Caroline Hobkinson

Caroline Hobkinson is an anthropologist exploring and investigating the interrelationships between Tech, Food, Art and the Senses.

Born in Cologne in 1979, trained at Central Saint Martin’s where she gained a degree in Fine Art and SOAS where she earned a master’s degree in the Anthropology of Food, she has been creating events and sculptural installations, in galleries, museums and public spaces worldwide. She has published and co-authored numerous research and academic papers on the neuroscientific workings of eating and conducted anthropological qualitative research into food and drink habits and rituals.

Operating within the intersections of technology, food and the senses Caroline has been giving numerous interactive talks and lectures on the subject of food and eating rituals for Unilever, Disney, Barilla, Space 10 and many others and her work and research has appeared in numerous publications. She has recently co presented a 3-part series on multisensory aspects of cheese, due out in summer 2020.