Umami, often referred to as the fifth taste, defies description, confuddles taste buds and often casts off convention in a variety of meals. Aptly, the taste bestows its name to a new festival starting this week in New York, the Umami Festival. Starting tomorrow and lasting through April 18th, Umami: Food and Art tries to capture that hard to define space between the gastronomic and the aesthetic, where the things we consume become a feast for the imagination. Of particular note are the Orphic Memory Sausage events, where attendees are invited to bring a memento that will be ground into a sausage-filling mix of memories, stuffed into an intestine casing and sent home as a souvenir. Let’s hope there aren’t any taste testings.
Umami takes place at Roulette at 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand). Click here for a schedule of events.
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