CORNUCOPIA
Digital Gastronomy

Food is one of the fundamental ingredients of life. We cannot go a day without it before experiencing discomfort and the kinds of food we eat and how we eat them are closely intertwined with our cultural practices, physical environments and personal health. Nonetheless, we have been cooking progressively less.

While digital media has transformed every facet of society, the fundamental technologies we encounter in the kitchen today provide only incremental improvements to the tools we have been using for hundreds of years. In order to bring our cooking technologies to the digital age, we are developing several prototypes that combine digital fabrication technologies and food.

This research is currently being done at the MIT Media Lab. Initial concept designs for Cornucopia developed in collaboration with Amit Zoran.