The Project Café
04 May 2019
Photographs by Ingrid Mur
This was an event planned in collaboration with Cinemaattic Glasgow and The Slow Food Youth Network which brought the UK premier of Bihar Dok 13, a documentary investigating the links between Basque Cuisine and Basque Artists. It was a cinematic and gastronomic experience aiming to underline the role of food as a creative process: connecting people and places with their stories. The event included a full vegetarian Basque Dinner.
THE MENU
Photographs by Ingrid Mur
THE FILM
Intergenerational dialogue between chefs and Basque culture. This documentary investigates the links between the new basque cuisine revolution and key artists from Basque Country such as Oteiza or Chillida as well as musicians like Xabier Lete and Mikel Laboa, all part of the cultural group Gaur (Eldiario).At the Basque Culinary Center (BCC), 5 young talented students of cutting-edge gastronomy from all over the world will go back to the past to create the menu Bihar Dok 13. They will travel to 1966 to discover the decade that would change everything in Basque culture. With five special events, we will discover the movements Gaur, Ez dok amairu and the spiritual father of the BCC, the Basque Nouvelle Cuisine.