Category: Experiences
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Workshop: The Architecture of Umami For chefs & food professionals
Pilot workshop — late September 2026, the NetherlandsFull details coming soon. You can taste umami. Can you locate it? A structured workshop for chefs and food professionals. Learn what umami actually is, taste it under controlled conditions, and learn to read where it comes from in your own cooking. The problem Umami is easy to…
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Designing Satisfaction through Umami for dietitians
Umami, appetite, and sodium reduction — a pilot workshop for dietitians and nutrition professionals A workshop for people who design what others eat A meal can be nutritionally sound and still not quite work. The plan is right on paper. The salt comes down and something goes flat. The protein is adequate and the appetite…
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Lecture: Umami: Tasting the Invisible
Exploring the science, memory, culture, and human experience of taste An hour to sit back, listen, and see a familiar taste differently. Umami is often described as the fifth taste. Yet throughout history, people across cultures have sought, preserved, traded, and celebrated umami-rich foods long before the word itself existed. This lecture invites you to…
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Workshops: The Five Doors of Umami
An Interactive Journey Through Taste, Memory, and Culture Umami is often described as the fifth taste. But it is also a story of preservation, memory, culture, and human survival. This workshop is an invitation not simply to learn about umami, but to experience how taste connects people, places, and histories. What will change after this…