Try edible insects and fermented raw foods at this food festival at the Science Gallery Bengaluru

The Science Gallery successful Bengaluru unveiled its year-long exhibition, Calorie, earlier this year. Through creation installations, workshops and interactive games, the accumulation explores our narration with food, nutrition and agriculture. Now arsenic portion of Calorie, the assemblage is hosting a nutrient festival titled Namma Oota. The festival has nutrient stalls from assorted brands, arsenic good arsenic talks, masterclasses and a quiz.

Food stalls astatine the lawsuit see brands specified arsenic Wallflour Patisserie & Kitchen, who volition let your to physique your ain dessert. City-based The Cubbon Table make small-batch products rooted successful determination preservation and fermentation traditions, truthful visitors tin effort fermented earthy foods and preserves. Aruvu Collaboratory is bringing caller nutrient and millet dishes from Channapatna and Bidar regions. The non-profit ATREE is focused connected biology conservation and sustainable development. Their stall volition person edible insects from their probe connected the topic. Expect silkworm Manchurian and chilli ail crickets.

Founding manager of the gallery, Jahnavi Phalkey, says, “Namma Oota extends the questions we inquire successful our existent accumulation Calorie. We privation visitors to deliberation astir however we recognize nutrition, what shapes our nutrient systems and however our choices impact the satellite astir us. Through workshops and interactive stalls, we research themes similar alternate foods, fermentation, preservation traditions and the stories down mundane ingredients. It gives visitors a accidental to prosecute with the subject of nutrient successful a relaxed and accessible way.”

The festival besides has talks by experts. Kurush Feroze Dalal, a culinary anthropologist, is hosting a nationalist lecture arsenic portion of the Food Festival called Food: The Greatest Mnemonic. “The league is astir nutrient and memories. Food is the top mnemonic known to mankind. Food is each astir memories you person made oregon are making, these are not ever good, immoderate tin beryllium bittersweet and bitter too. This speech discusses nutrient and representation and what they mean to us.”

Namma Oota is intentionally tiny and curated. Jahnavi concludes, “We privation visitors to larn thing caller aft their visit. The stalls bring unneurotic a scope of ideas, from moringa-based products and fermented spices to edible insects, each offering a antithetic presumption of however nutrient mightiness germinate successful the future. We are besides delighted to invited the musicians BluesGhat to the festival.”

Entry free. December 6- 7. At The Science Gallery, Bellary Road. For much details and the afloat schedule, sojourn bengaluru.sciencegallery.com