Røticulate, Røtinal, therefore Røpetitive
Difficulty level: More mandatory than gustatory
Time: État gazeux in an advanced degree of putrefaction
Cost: Neo-Colonialist
Mise-en-Place
Please make
sure that you are positioned in a place of alter-onanistic ostentation and in a
permanently cynical deconstruction of the Real, for that being the most suitable
environment for cooking this gore’met røcipe: leaving out the meat in order to
eat the blood. For this dish, we will thus need a dialectical inversion of the
Noble Savage myth, a freshly decapitated one, which should be organic and having
a Protected Designation of Origin stamped in it; also peeled and deboned, no eyes
or teeth, no expression or impression, no pet name. We also need to fearlessly embrace
that civilizational level where it is already possible to consume tofu made out
of pork meat, and turn that into the ultimate food trend, as if it was already true
that we are living in the 21 st
century… We need a retrofuturistic oven
and lots of cyberspace in the kitchen. Actually, we need a megalophysic kitchen,
intense and widely ethereal, excessive and spiritual, über-imagetic and
proto-apocalyptical. I suggest Bosch kitchens; late medieval is the Pantone-aesthetics
for the year 2008, and the year 2008 is the Pantone-year for the year 2014. That
is, the bio-machines produced from scratch by Singer are moved out, and unwashed
Flemish hipsters, preserved in non-vegetable oil and intensely processed flavour
enhancers (aka Fashion) are brought under the spotlight again. Very important:
the “air” and “du temps” in season are the core-ingredients of the so-called
Eschatological Dietand require at least 1 Petabyte of memory inside the
freezer so they can be properly cured; their Becoming is the Global Cooling! Besides,
this is all about post-capitalist luxuries that can only be acquired after some
dozens of fluffy cats have been beheaded, and at least one concrete Ground Zero
have been erected in the same location where previously there was this local-bio-farm
with a global-graphic-identity. We can’t stay inside the closet for too long! —
our brain synapses might be clogged with dust, and humidity can moulder our
temper, attracting all sorts of germs that are only interested in doing work-in-progress
stuff. Well, work-in-progress is one of those very useful strategies for those
who are not willing to finish what they started. We are not sorry! As for Art, also
Food has been turned into Design. Contemporary Røcoco is then a form
desperately following a function: the hostile annihilation of the human species.
But beware! Since History has a homeopathic water memory — that is, it suffers
from Alzheimer’s disease —, by the time we start cooking this røcipe, we should
never stop, not even to think! Straight line — everlasting nec otium. Until the End. Like this:
Ingredients
Preparation
Beat the
H’egg’el yolk until it disappears completely in the air. The excess of gravity
inside the Bosch kitchen will make the molecules accumulate in the lowest point
in the ground, a place designated by American Gastronomy as “watermark”. Because
that place is almost invisible, and in order to unveil it faster, tease the
frisky Schrödinger’s cat with an Orwell cookie and let it snuggle with the
corpse (be careful not to smash it). It is in that concave surface that a quantum
equation (1+1=3) should be composed, along with the two spoons of Olive
Oily’garchy, the whole package of Boaventura potato chips and the second hand
embarrassments previously braised. Put everything in a mixer, not before
removing all residual rhizomes (they taste really bad…), and let it rest inside
a previously heated Higgs boson. Next, a hybrid should be built, hard-beating
the dark matter with some drops of Slavojuice; its high acidity will break the
dough, changing the capital of colour hundreds of times in just seconds. Do not
stop harping on the same string (theory), adding the Indie fast-food flavour
sparingly, tasting every now and then, so that it doesn’t turn into something
overly tacky, only consensual enough to be easily quoted. Store the resulting mushy
mash in a pastic community and put it in the fridge. Meanwhile, assemble the
PIIGments salad and season it with some De Duve’s mayo and a pinch of baroque’s
natural extract. Let it marinate inside an old wooden relational. Cover it with
a cloth and let it ferment slowly until it reaches the Rancière point. At this
time, transfer the mixture to an e-cool-logical piping bag and reserve. Lastly,
do a regression to the Oparin’s broth, heating it in a metal cyberbullying; while
waiting for the meter to reach the Zeropoint, swallow the 500 mg of Soma in
one single gulp, self-inducing a psychotropic trance called Cybernoia
, that
will make you foolishly believe that everything is interconnected and that all posts
on Facebook are about you. As the delirium tremens is slowly vanishing, filter the
regressed broth with the help of a thin social network and pour it down a
stainless steel melting pot (it should smell like blood). With your hands dry, blend
the mixture by doing some oily twerk movements, increasing the speed gradually until
a spontaneous combustion happens. Adjust the seasoning. Reserve.
Plating & Tasting
When properly cooled, flatten the one-dimensional mixture. Its umami flavour is barely imperceptible. All røcipes featured in the Contemporary Cookbook taste the same: noodles-to-go that taste like food
, canned soup that taste like food
, home-delivered pizza that taste like food. A flat cake with no gluten, no lactose, no coloring or preservatives, no thickeners or acidity regulators, no sugar, aspartame or glucose syrup added, no sources of phenylalanine or genetically modified soy. 0% fat content. Chemtrails-free. It will be au point
when it tastes like everything we know, that is, when it tastes like Nothing.