The Art of Layers
Design: Anna Glass
Chef: Dimi Choro
Video: Laura Renkens
The Blue Kitchen
Inspired by my kitchen here in Delft, Blue Kitchen Dinner is an ongoing project exploring how we gather through food. I partner with professional chefs to invite guests to my home for an unforgettable evening.
At its core, a Blue Kitchen Dinner is a themed supper club that changes with each iteration and chef partnership, inviting different mixings of people together to enjoy a meal. These dinners are intimate and immersive, they reimagine space, shift social dynamics, and celebrate eating as a creative and communal act. Each event plays with an imaginative theme that guides the format, decor, and menu. I am inspired by the seasons, by my community, and by the challenge of introducing guests to new formats and materials of eating.
Alongside the dinners, The Blue Kitchen Bakery is a project I run from my first floor window. When the weather is nice and my weekend is free, I offer small-batch baked goods which are delivered via basket on a rope. Like the dinners, the bakery is designed to change the dynamics of how we interact with mealtime. Plus, it's fun!
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Offline
Winter Picnic
I designed, produced, and hosted the Offline Winter Picnic in partnership with The Offline Club, a screen-free social club. An iteration on the previous Great Indoors event, this 3-course dinner was scaled up for 50 people and took place in a beautiful waterfront restaurant venue in Amsterdam Noord. The evening featured their trademark analogue programming, alongside my own reflective flavor prompts and course choreography which invited guests to interacts both with each other and the immersive dining landscape.
Soup Séance
The Soup Séance was an ode to the season, highlighting ingredients and textures that represent transformation and warmth. With our 4-course soup menu, we celebrated the ways in which individuals can come together as one. The first course was a carrot soup shooter with a ground coffee spice rim, which guests sipped around our "soup alter." The alter table asked reflective questions, and prompted each guest to select a special spoon which they would use throughout the rest of the meal. The main dining room was arranged with root vegetables and other ingredients from the dinner hanging from the ceiling, making diners feel as if they might also be part of the ritual meal.
The Art of Layers
How many meanings can you find in the term "layers"? For me, I thought not only of the scarves and sweaters and tights and socks I had been wearing every day, but also of deeper meanings and unsaid subtexts. I thought literally about a table that would grow with each course, and a menu that would reveal unexpected textures and flavor elements as you ate through each dish.
The Great Indoors
Born of the desire for a picnic birthday party in the middle of winter, The Great Indoors is a nostalgic and playful ode to long summer evenings spent outside. Lining the apartment with fake grass invites guests into the uncanny valley, where they reminisce on camping trips past and indulge in roasted earthy flavors. The night is topped off with a regathering on the meadow to tell ghost stories and share the melted chocolatey goodness of a fresh s'more.
Window Bakery
