# Food chat Tina - Darshana

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Dates: May 11-12
Location: http://primeproduce.coop/
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Lunch for 40 people
Tina will cook if she gets 2-3 volunteers for prep.

Budget: transportation (get groceries, food, equipment) serving-ware and food
Tina's estimate for 2 lunches:
* $1200 (a generous estimate)

### Maybe add something like this to the eventbrite
What are your lunch preferences?
* vegetarian
* meat
* either

### Cost for Orbital thanksgiving dinner (that Tina cooked)
* food for 30-ish people - $293
* transporation - $85
* supplies (cups, plates, foil catering trays) - $36

## Questions for Prime Produce
* Can we use your kitchen space?
yes

* Storage space for prepped food.
yes

* Utensils (for cooking and serving, napkins)
yes

## Process
1. Discovery - Tina learns about the physical space, available equipment, lunch requirements, and domain area (training itself)

2. Brainstorm - Tina and Darshana meet to brainstorm ideas. Narrow down to a few good ones.

3. Feedback - T&D meet with PP folks and CS&Liz to get feedback on proposed lunch designs, and continue to refine based on space requirements or opportunities

4. Implement - Shop, secure volunteers, schedule time, cook

5. Serve Lunch - short presentation to introduce, then facilitate? we don't know yet.

## project habits
document diligently (process and pictures)

## To dos..
* visit the space
* meet David and other Prime Produce space people
* send D bio and picture

## Early Ideas/thoughts:
* Framing for lunch activity:
* How might we help people establish connections that will persevere beyond this two day event?
* How might we give people a chance to synthesize and put into practice what they have just learned?
* right now, we don’t know what the morning’s topic/activity will be, so this could be hard.
* How might we allow people to relax, recharge and re-energize in preparation for the afternoon’s activities?
* food should be light and healthy, not heavy and rich (we don’t want people in a coma after they eat)
* maybe even soothing—like a pureed soup, or gazpacho/savory green smoothie something...
* dessert will be energy balls to last the afternoon
* caffeinated beverages! (can we get a boba tea sponsorship?!-- boba guys)
* 2 food themes: NYC and Taiwan, 1 for each day
* Maybe not straight-up Tawainese - otherwise could be boring for the visitors :)
* Assumption: people will probably just want to talk to each other and discuss the morning’s events, or just rest their minds.
* The food shouldn’t be too much of the focus… it should be easy to eat and simple.
* Lunchbags - provide speed of service and reduce logistical complexities
* all utensils/food packaged and provided inside
* can also include activities inside the lunches
* Surprise element - what is inside? a puzzle, a game?
* tie-in between the two days?
* maybe some way for the participants to stay in touch?
* a card for people to fill out—what questions do I have? what did you learn?
* a place to post the card
* a way for people to respond: “If you want to discuss, get in touch at _______"
* Interesting elements from reading bg materials:
* How do people who are on the ‘losing side’ feel about the process?
* Deliberation is MESSY AF. How can we celebrate that messiness?
* Can the FOOD be messy?
* Haha that might be stressful or embarrassing. People have very strong social norms around eating, and this might not be the time to challenge them. - Tina
* central themes:
* order v. chaos (structure v. freeform)
* comparisons to the Occupy Wall Street movement, which was more on the side of chaos
* hope v. fear
* a lot of people hope vTaiwan is the answer; gov officials are wary
* experimentation, speed
* the importance of building relationships
* institutionalization vs. freedom

Thoughts from April 23 meeting (D & T)
* there will be some kind of icebreaker
* up until lunch it’s very structured - attendees won’t get to interact much
* activities are barely started on first day
* could seat people based on affiliations
* lunch on first day could have more structure so people can meet each other
* lunch on second day could be more freeform, like buffet style
* what if people had an indoor picnic? (floor style seating w blankets)
* audience will be from academia, government, civic tech, urban planning.. NYC mostly and also Mexico and Canada
* uniformity in Taiwan vs ethnic differences/diversity in US
* Taiwan is also a young democracy and they are more aware of its fragility and the need to protect it (the constant reminder from China helps). US has more ossified structures and complacency surrounding government.
* cultural differences - TW is more liberal and nonviolent (no culture of gun ownership, police brutality less of an issue)
* maybe a picnic bag??
* not heavy food. energy ball packets (from Divya's cookbook)

Inspiration — “Mixed Reality” “Calm Technology” “Cyberphysical Systems” “Noncontroversial Essence” “Conservative Anarchism”

Menu could be biodiversity focused — each plate is a snapshot of a part of a biodiverse farm (or a set of relationships)
The work of Joel Salatin ("Everything I want to do is illegal")

Blending of Taiwanese and local food (form factor of one culture and the flavors of the other)

Maybe is we put a little toy into the lunch bags people can be broken off into groups for afternoon activity based on the top in their bags

## questions for David

Dining vs workshop/lecture seating and furniture arrangement (can we have both set up simultaneously or no)

Would Jerome be up for brainstorming about food?