Wietske Maas

Halfway there: project proposal Noord. July, 2010.

Gastronomy is inextricably linked with travel. It is only through eating something that we really get familiar with it. That said, how can we eat Amsterdam Noord?

Roast swamp goose and Metropolitan mugwort mash washed down with Bog Beer? All ingredients are found between the interstitials of Noord’s housing blocks and arable marshlands. Wietske will make a recipe map of the local edibles. A possible future archetypal dish of Amsterdam Noord.

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Hungry Building, Amsterdam Noord - Wietske Maas

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Evening Primrose (Teunisbloem) Amsterdam Noord Stadsdeel - Evening primrose flowers, growing on a scruffy sandbank near Stadsdeel Noord. Flowers have a gluey consistency and a slight pepery twang. Can be stuffed and fried like zucchini flowers Wietske Maas

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Weegbree op weegbreestraat - I visited Weegbreestraat (Plantago street) in Noord and photographed all the families and individual plants of weegbree. The invisible and usually trodden on inhabitants of Weegbreestraat straat. A total of 126 weegbree’s. That’s probably about the same as the number of people inhabitants of the Weegbreestraat. Weegbree means 'wide road'. The seeds of the plantago can be roasted and are a nutty seasoning for yoghurt or potatoes. Wietske Maas

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08.Weegbreestraat_(Plantago street) - Wietske Maas

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Extravagantly enhanced aperitif with flora foraged in North - Late summer flora from tansy, evening primrose, malva, mugwort and blackberries to spike an aperitif Wietske Maas