Menu du Jardin w/ Jasmine Parsley
Dinner performance

As the grand finale of the conversation series Wovon erzählt die Landschaft? and in collaboration with the artist Jasmine Parsley, the landscape-themed dinner performance Menu du Jardin was hosted in the orchard of Baumschule Kulturforum. All participants and contributors from the discussion series were gathered around a long table to collectively dine, drink, share stories and exchange insights. The eight-course menu was inspired by the landscape narratives, memories and anecdotes discussed in the interviews and every course was dedicated to one particular conversation partner. From the Wadden Sea to lava stones and Bavarian cow pastures, each dish was crafted to offer culinary representations and edible interpretations of these varied environments.

The event emphasized the site-specific use of plants. The focus was not only on the narrative elements of the landscapes but also on the plants themselves as narrative carriers – many of which were sourced and foraged by Jasmine from Berlin’s urban flora. The menu featured, among other items, fire baked vegetables in salt-ash dough, apples from the Kulturforum, fermented nettles from Berlin’s Tiergarten and pickled spruce tips and blackberries from Rehberge.

Dinner performance 2024, Baumschule Kulturforum
With: Jasmine Parsley
Sponsors: Weingut Schmitt's Kinder
Thanks to: Stiftung St. Matthäus, BMB Group, Nature's Calling, Chez Ahmet, Christina Brandauer-Walde

Menu du Jardin w/ Jasmine Parsley
Dinner performance

As the grand finale of the conversation series Wovon erzählt die Landschaft? and in collaboration with the artist Jasmine Parsley, the landscape-themed dinner performance Menu du Jardin was hosted in the orchard of Baumschule Kulturforum. All participants and contributors from the discussion series were gathered around a long table to collectively dine, drink, share stories and exchange insights. The eight-course menu was inspired by the landscape narratives, memories and anecdotes discussed in the interviews and every course was dedicated to one particular conversation partner. From the Wadden Sea to lava stones and Bavarian cow pastures, each dish was crafted to offer culinary representations and edible interpretations of these varied environments.

The event emphasized the site-specific use of plants. The focus was not only on the narrative elements of the landscapes but also on the plants themselves as narrative carriers – many of which were sourced and foraged by Jasmine from Berlin’s urban flora. The menu featured, among other items, fire baked vegetables in salt-ash dough, apples from the Kulturforum, fermented nettles from Berlin’s Tiergarten and pickled spruce tips and blackberries from Rehberge.

Dinner performance 2024, Baumschule Kulturforum
With: Jasmine Parsley
Sponsors: Weingut Schmitt's Kinder
Thanks to: Stiftung St. Matthäus, BMB Group, Nature's Calling, Chez Ahmet, Christina Brandauer-Walde