Kanal Labs Urban Pharmacy
OKNO garden rooftop, patient & treatment zone
As part of the FoAM contribution to the Brussels Festival Kanal, cooks with medicinal plant know-how (Rasa Alksnyte, Wietske Maas and Christina Stadlbauer) sourced plants from garden and hidden green zones near to the Brussels canal and created an array of edible-treatments. Visitors had a consultation, and, according to their diagnosed disease or urban affliction, received a curative appetizer which was prepared on the spot and transported down from the FoAM kitchen to the OKNO roof-top garden space.
Although the dishes varied with each diagnosis, some of the medical food prescriptions included stuffed apple with chopped hazelnuts, rosehip, Schaerbeek honey and evening primrose; fried carrot flowers, tansy and yarrow sautéed mushrooms, elderberry verbena custard with wild carrot seed and milky anis serum with sloeberry.
With thanks to all helped with the improvised recipe-making in the FoAM kitchen, and the doctors that be: Pieter de Wel and Bart Vandeput.
Homage to the wastelands of Brussels: bouquet of carrot flowers
Thomas next to derelict station master's building, former railway yard 'Tour et Taxis'
Carrot seed heads. Seeds have high levels of porphyrins that stimulate the pituitary gland which increase levels of sex hormones
Dr Bartaku
Carrot flower, fried in an egg white batter
Medicine goes down (Jack and Jill style, in basket)
Medicine delivery basket is hauled back up
Some of the raw ingredients
Patients being feed
Kitchen hands