SCOTT RETTBERG & TALAN MEMMOTT
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The Limerick Diet The Limerick Diet was performed at the Brocade & Lime on July 15th, 2019. The following menus were generated and prepared by the chefs. In addition, each guest interactively generated a cocktail using a card game. An amuse bouche, Green Potatoes Four Ways, was also served. The Limerick Diet is a digital performance piece that mirrors the popular competitive cooking show format. The piece is driven by a slot-style poetry engine with an adaptive grammar to generate culinary recombinations. The vocabulary of the engine for the Brocade & Lime version of this work was based on locally sourced sustainable ingredients of Ireland, in order to generate meals that while aleatory and inventive were nevertheless more Irish than the poetry of William Butler Yeats, the prose of James Joyce, or the drama of Samuel Beckett by virtue of the fact that they were limericks that sprang from the peaty sod of the Irish soil and taste of the salts of the wild Irish sea. The meats served were more Celtic and more tender than the meat of any ancient body found leathering in a bog.. Further documentation of the Limerick Diet, including full streams of the six-hour event, can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/limerickdiet/
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