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ANTHROPOLOGIC FOOD LAB AND COOKING EXPERIENCES

Jars of nuts, leafy greens, white flowers, and turnips on a surface.
Uncooked gnocchi on a wooden board, dusted with semolina flour.
Four dough balls and orange peels on a baking sheet.
Two people harvesting cork from a tree trunk in a rural landscape.
a train with a mountain in the background
a group of people sitting in front of a building
food on a wooden table
a group of people in a communal kitchen
a group of sheep eating grass on a sunny day
a boat is docked next to a body of water
a group of people standing in a parking lot

The Anthropological Food Lab founded by Oh! My Cod is a creative research space where chefs, anthropologists, farmers, and local communities come together to explore the cultural, emotional, and historical meanings behind food. It’s part kitchen, part archive, part storytelling studio.

Imagine a place where recipes are treated like oral histories, where ingredients are studied not just for their flavor but for the journeys they’ve taken across oceans, generations, and landscapes. In this lab, food isn’t just cooked—it’s decoded.

Hand holding a cylindrical package of goat cheese wrapped in white paper.
Hands in black gloves holding pomegranate halves over a bowl of seeds.
Person wrapping a glass bowl with plastic wrap, kitchen jars visible nearby.
a person posing for the camera

OBSERVATORY LAB: FOODSCAPE WALKING ROUTES OF PICO ISLAND

Wild Edible Plants • Traditional Knowledge • Living Landscapes

This Observatory Lab invites you to conceive and experience Pico Island through its edible and cultural landscapes, where volcanic geology, wild plants, and community knowledge are deeply intertwined. Rooted in ethnobotanical research and ethnographic observation, the project explores how people have long read, used, and shaped this territory through their daily interactions with spontaneous plants.

 

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Three leafy greens and parsley arranged on black pebbles.
Green grapes and leaves with water droplets on a vine.
Aerial view of a narrow red path dividing green, mossy stone tiles.
Vine leaves in autumn colors with dark grapes partially visible.

PICO WINE & CHANGE OBSERVATORY

 

Land • Community • Wine • Future

In 2025 Pico stands at a crossroads. Its vineyards are more than fields — they are the product of centuries of resilience and community.

To help protect this living heritage, we propose a small, participatory platform that documents how gentrification, land pressure and economic shifts affect local viticulture.

 

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