Events

Nov 09 2024

Forbidden Foods with Max Jones

Join Max Jones of traditional food conservation project Up There The Last in a tasting of ancient foods with fascinating origin stories. From natural Irish cheese to illegal alpine butter, access to these traditional foods of the past can colour the taste of the future, allowing us to connect with the landscape from which they are made, and become it through its eating.

Max Jones is a writer, photographer, food producer, speaker and educator I work internationally as an active archivist of traditional food preservation.

Max splits his life between coastal West Cork in Ireland and the mountains of the Biellese in Italy, with lifelong connection to London and West Wales in the UK.

He wants to reconnect people to our inherent ability to harmoniously convert the landscape into food, inspired by the intuitive and resourceful methods he had gleaned from working alongside artisans from across Europe and to provide an archive of these methods so they do not go lost. He loves to help re-awaken these abilities that are intrinsic to us all, in the hope that we can carve out a better future for our food by honouring techniques of the past