Dr. Joshua Evans: What is the connection between fermentation, flavor innovation, and biodiversity?
Fermentation Speaker Series - A podcast by Elisa Caffrey, David Zilber, and Justin Sonnenburg
Dr. Evans is a Senior Researcher and Leader of the Sustainable Food Innovation Group at the Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark. His multidisciplinary group uses culinary research & development to make flavorful, sustainable, often fermented foods, scientific methods to study their flavor, ecology and evolution, and social science and artistic practice to understand and experiment with how they might fit into food culture.In his talk, Dr. Evans shares some of his work on how the pursuit of new flavors through fermentation can lead to novel microbial ecologies and evolutionary histories, and how bringing together art, science, and cooking through fermentation can invite closer relationships to our bodies and to the planet.