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		<title>Apocalyptic food&#124; Alexandra Genis’s ‘Atoma’ brings 3-D printed ‘spice’ molecules into the kitchen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Critical food designer Alexandra Genis came up with her product Atoma after eating strawberry yoghurt and reading the notice on the label: “contains no artificial flavouring”. The now Berlin-based artist, who graduated from the Food Non Food Department of the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands in 2018, had a revelation – could there be an alternative to natural flavouring that didn’t require depleting strawberries or using enormous amounts of resources and energy to ship them around the world? With the food industry not hugely invested in sustainability, Genis decided to tackle the problem of food shortages along with humanity’s resistance to all things artificial. What if we could create the flavour of a strawberry without having a strawberry present? Her graduation project Atoma (a play on the words ‘atom’ and ‘aroma’) does just this. Kitchen meets chemistry lab as the St Petersburg-born designer 3-D prints moulds of flavour molecules (in the shape of their chemical compound) then infuses cocoa butter with the single-flavour molecule of her choice to make a bouillon or ‘spice’, which can be rasped into food like any other spice. For example, she mixes together the 24 flavour compounds we taste when we eat strawberries to [...]]]></description>
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