Throughout the year
Martin Friedle and I have met to forage for wild greens in his vegetable garden, the local
park and various other locations around Brunswick. This is a significant practice for him because for
two years Martin has been on a Restricted Calorie Ketogenic Diet. A strict diet developed by
Bio-Chemist Otto Warburg who received a Noble Prize for cell specialist
research leading to the discovery that cancer cells need sugar.
Martin at home in the vegetable garden
One result of this diet is a
type of ritualised isolation. Because the diet excludes sugars and carbohydrates
designed to keep key tones up and sugars down, the resulting metabolic changes
he has undergone require several meals per day. Cooking dishes outside of the family taste zone as well as meal times. One of the goals for our meetings has been to create dishes that could cater to the family palate.
Experimental cooking with Dandelion roots and leaves
Preparing Dandelion root for cooking.
Martin is also a hobby
Beekeeper with a hive in the back garden. With a background in science he is
also an accomplished composer, recently presenting new work titled Dance of the Bee, created as a musical exploration into our
5000 year relationship with the honeybee.