{"id":820,"date":"2015-02-16T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=820"},"modified":"2016-08-31T16:23:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T14:23:42","slug":"the-first-world-fantasy-salad-competition-fantasilater-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=820","title":{"rendered":"The First World Fantasy Salad Competition – Fantasilater"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspired by my multi-species salads, which were in turn inspired by multi-species traditional dishes from the Mediterranean countries, \u00a0Aiah Noack and team at \u00a0Grennessminde – Det \u00d8kologiske Gartneri\u00a0(The Organic Nursery)\u00a0just outside of Copenhagen, conceived what she\u00a0called Fantasilater (Fantasy Salads). \u00a0They arranged the first competition between 3 Danish chefs in August 2014! I helped out as external consultant and on the day took part as the chief competition judge, and in that capacity overturned the verdict of the public vote! \u00a0:) The winner was Casper Sundin who, as part of his award,\u00a0will receive an edible flower bed of up to 75 m2!<\/p>\n

I had visited\u00a0\u00a0Grennessminde in March when the 3 beds were still bare earth. Returning for the competition just 5 months later I was amazed at how good and productive these first year beds looked. \u00a0Aiah and Lisbeth had worked very hard to make the event a success and had made good sized signs with information about each plant and how they are used. There were in total 238 different plants of which 138 were perennials…. I feel my world record salad is coming under threat…. ;)<\/span><\/p>\n

The chefs first followed me around the beds and I told them about the plants and how they are used. \u00a0They were then told to make a salad with at least 80 species collected by them from the Fantasilater beds and\/or from a small selection of conventional veggies from Grennessminde’s traditional veggie beds including a few edible weeds. Dressing the salads was also allowed. \u00a0I and Aiah then gave short introductions to the concept of multi-species salads to the public and chefs. The chefs were given about 1 hour to make their salads. One trained helper was appointed to each chef to document what species they collected (and to give them \u00a0a bit of help).<\/p>\n

These pictures document this fantasilastic day: \u00a0http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/pictures\/ind<\/a>ex.php?\/category\/13<\/a><\/p>\n

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Aiah Noack on her first visit to Malvik in 2012 experiencing her first Fantasy salad…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Fantasy beds from which the chefs could compose their salads were only 5 months old – I had visited in March and the beds were newly dug bare earth – growth had been phenomenal – just look at the Daubenton’s Kale next to Aiah’s team!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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