TEDxCambridge

Chandler Burr on perfumes you could eat

TEDxCambridge Team — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:40:19 +0000

Scent critic Chandler Burr takes us on a tour of some of the most exciting fragrances from the world of gourmand perfumes, with aromas so delicious you could almost eat them.

David Gracer on eating bugs

TEDxCambridge Team — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:19:19 +0000

Entomophagist David Gracer makes the case for why, if we want to feed a hungry world, we should eat more bugs.

John Gertsen on the history of cocktails

TEDxCambridge Team — Thu, 05 May 2011 14:34:45 +0000

Drink bartender John Gertsen uses the history of cocktails to show us why “it’s not what’s in the glass.”

Don Katz on the origins of taste

TEDxCambridge Team — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:18:10 +0000

Yuck or yum? Don Katz reveals what the social life of rats can tell us about the origins of taste.

Wylie Dufresne and the Incredible Egg

TEDxCambridge Team — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:22:51 +0000

Wylie Dufresne, chef and owner of WD-50 in New York, talks about his favorite food – the humble egg – and the amazing things he has been able to transform it into, aided by a little curiosity and hunger.

Kenji Lopez-Alt on the Science and Craft of Food

TEDxCambridge Team — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:48:32 +0000

Chef, writer, and recipe developer Kenji Lopez-Alt explains how he got into the business of questioning conventional cooking wisdom and shares some of the more surprising insights he has discovered.

Grub Street Boston on TEDxCambridge

TEDxCambridge Team — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:03:48 +0000

Grub Street Boston did a debrief of “How do you eat?” with TEDxCambridge organizer, Jennifer Brea:

TEDxCambridge, an independently organized conference based on Jamie Oliver’s TED prize wish “to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity,” took place at MIT yesterday. Speakers included Wylie Dufresne of wd-50, Drink mixologist John Gertsen, and Community Servings CEO David Waters. We caught up with organizer Jennifer Brea to learn about some of her favorite moments from the event.

David Gracer on putting bugs on the menu

TEDxCambridge Team — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:01:15 +0000

Cynthia Graber of the Scientific American has this 60-second podcast of David Gracer‘s recent TEDxCambridge talk:

Want to feed a hungry world? According to David Gracer, add bugs to the menu. Gracer is, he says, a normal guy who’s also an entomophagist, an advocate for insects as food. He gave a talk about ingesting insects at a May 16th TEDxCambridge conference called “How We Eat.” The event was a spin-off of the popular TED talks.

Listen to the podcast.

TED.com: William Li on Eating to Starve Cancer

TEDxCambridge Team — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:48:36 +0000

At TED 2010 in Long Beach, CA, Dr. William Li, head of the Angiogenesis Foundation in Cambridge, MA, presented a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game.

The bugs were a hit!

TEDxCambridge Team — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:33:11 +0000

In the first session, entomophagist David Gracer spoke passionately about why humans should eat more insects, and at the reception, our caterer, Chive Events, rose to David’s challenge, sautéing hundreds of crickets with spinach and peppers, and serving them up on VerTerra plates.

We weren’t sure how many brave souls we would have in the audience on Sunday, but a half an hour into the evening reception, we were told people were waiting in line for crickets, worms, and some of the other creepy crawlies David had brought down from Providence.

As we learned from Don Katz, if we see our friends eating crickets, they might taste better.

Photos courtesy of @finkatronic and @BradySadler