Watercolour diagram depicting interconnected food science concepts represented as vessels, linked via industrial pipes and botanical plants. Each vessel symbolizes a culinary and scientific process such as fermentation, microbes, and food culture.

We are an interdisciplinary research group based at the
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability,
Technical University of Denmark.

We combine cooking, science & culture for
a flavourful, equitable & ecological food system.

Read more about our approach.

Essays, recipes, scientific digests & more

Read more

Recent publications

People

Some of the team, with Harold McGee
(who was sadly only visiting)

Appearances

Upcoming

‘Novel fermentations for flavour, science, and sustainability’(invited speaker), Josh Evans, Stanford Fermented Foods Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA, 4-5 September 2025.

‘The Mushroom Kingdom’ (invited panel participant), Lene Lange, Kim Wejendorp, and Bodil Sofie Espersen, Bloom festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25 May 2025.

‘Cultivating Agriculture as Culture’ (invited talk), Josh Evans, Aral Culture Summit, Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation, Samarkand / Nukus, Uzbekistan, 4-6 April 2025.

‘What does space miso taste like?’ (news article), Caroline Kothe, Kim Wejendorp and Josh Evans, Article in The Economist, online, 2 Apr 2025.

Recent

We are an interdisciplinary research group based at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability,
Technical University of Denmark.

We combine cooking, science
& culture for a flavourful, equitable & ecological food system.

Read more about our approach.

Essays, recipes,
scientific digests & more

Read more

Recent publications

People

The team, with Harold McGee
(who was sadly only visiting)

Appearances

Upcoming

‘Novel fermentations for flavour, science, and sustainability’(invited speaker), Josh Evans, Stanford Fermented Foods Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA, 4-5 September 2025.

Recent

‘The Mushroom Kingdom’ (invited panel participant), Lene Lange, Kim Wejendorp, and Bodil Sofie Espersen, Bloom festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25 May 2025.

‘Cultivating Agriculture as Culture’ (invited talk), Josh Evans, Aral Culture Summit, Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation, Samarkand / Nukus, Uzbekistan, 4-6 April 2025.

‘What does space miso taste like?’ (news article), Caroline Kothe, Kim Wejendorp and Josh Evans, Article in The Economist, online, 2 Apr 2025.