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London Gastronomy Seminars
March 28, 2012 : Flavour launch
Eating from the tree of life
+ 10.000
Green (Chlorophyta) 1000-2000
Red (Rhodophyta) 5000-6000
Brown (Phaeophyceae) 1500-2000
Algae, bright order!
By Cryptogamists defended –
Translate marine plants
as Linnaeus intended.
You collect and admire us,
we amuse leisure hours;
“Then call us not weeds,
we are Ocean’s gay flowers.”
Curtis
Weeds ?
Fucus vesiculosus
(bladder wrack)
Saccharina latissima
(sugar kelp)
Can you really eat this ?
www.tangbog.dk
There is nothing more
disgusting than seaweed
Seaweed is appropriate for
distinguished guests
– even kings
Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)
Søl (Palmaria palmata)
Wakame (Undaria pinnatifida)
Kikunae Ikeda (1864-1936)
dashi
Konbu (Saccharina japonica)
Katsuobushi
The physiology
of taste
Synergy
Macrokelp (Macrocystis integrifolia)
Dulse (Palmaria palmata)
Dashi
Nordic
dashi
Mouritsen, Vildgaard, Westh & Williams:
GASTRO 51, 72-75 (2010)
Mouritsen, Williams, Bjerregård
& Duelund:
Flavour 1:4 (2012)
at
Nordic Food Lab
Mouritsen, Williams, Bjerregaard & Duelund
Seaweeds for umami flavour in the New Nordic Cuisine, Flavour 1:4 (2012)
Ernst Haeckel’s Florideae (1834-1919)
Irish moss (Chondrus crispus)
Spinosum
Ulva spp. & Monostroma spp.
(sea lettuce)
ao-nori ; hitoegusa
Sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima)
Important nutrients in seaweed
• Protein, essentiel amino acids (7-35%)
• Dietary fibers (45-75%, soluble, insoluble)
• Vitamins: A, B (B1, B2, B3, B6, B12 og folate), C, E
• Iodine
• More K-salts than Na-salts
• Minerals: (~ 10x land plants) Fe (>spinach, egg
yolk), Ca (> milk), P, Mg, Cl
• Trace compounds: Zn, Cu, Mn, Se, Mb, Cr
• Essentiel fatty acids (2-5%), omega-3, omega-6
EPA (no DHA) 3
16
omega
omega
Seaweeds
in gastronomy
Lars Williams (Nordic Food Lab, Noma)
Flavour 1:4
Fresh shrimp and pickled sea lettuce, stonecrop, and rhubarb juice
Lars Williams, Restaurant Noma
Jakob Mielcke Restaurant
Mielcke & Hurtigkarl
Klavs Styrbæk Restaurant Kvægtorvet
`The enlightened kitchen’ (shōjin ryori)