Gastro Talk with Lisbeth Ankersen, owner of Innovaconsult
This Talk will be in Danish
When we think of food, we often think of fruit and vegetables, a handful of different four-legged animals, a few species of birds and a few different fish. But where do we draw the line on what constitutes food?
In some cultures, jellyfish are delicacies. We'll look at why jellyfish are beautiful, cool, dangerous and problematic. Jellyfish are becoming more and more common. In places where the marine environment and fish are miserable, jellyfish thrive (they're actually fine with global warming, nitrogen emissions, ocean plastic, oxygen depletion, seaside construction and elevated CO2 in the atmosphere), but once jellyfish dominate, it's hard to bring back marine biodiversity. So, if we want to keep living creatures other than jellyfish in the ocean, we may have to do something. Is it possible to make food, cosmetics or medicine from jellyfish and at the same time give the marine environment a much-needed helping hand? And what determines whether we find something delicious or disgusting? We cover a lot of ground.
Tough topics and jellyfish snacks are washed down with a glass of bubbles, and if we're lucky, we'll experience umami synergy between the jellyfish and the bubbles.