Hungarian parents often say to their kids if they eat carrot they will whistle better. This is a saying which was experienced by almost everyone of us in childhood and were thinking about if it is really true or our parents was just playing fool with us. So we made a test to put an end to this question.

This video is also the first piece of a kitchen myth buster series we plan to do with Based on Pig.

The frist Restaurant Day Budapest was extremely successful with 11 spots in Hungary and 6 spots in Budapest. All of the one-time restaurants were professional and fun!

Restaurant Day Budapest is the Budapest wing of the underground urban gastro event Restaurant Day which started its life from Helsinki and already spred in the biggest cities of the world.

See the picture gallery to get the feeling!

Just working on a prezi about a Based on Pig Labor tomato test done in collaboration with OS Kantine and Makifood. You can see the top view of the testing table in "cubist style". :)

"Community-supported agriculture, a form of an alternative food network, (in Canada Community Shared Agriculture) (CSA) is a socio-economic model of agriculture and food distribution.

A CSA consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farming operation where the growers and consumers share the risks and benefits of food production.

CSAs usually consist of a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables and fruit, in a vegetable box scheme, and sometimes includes dairy products and meat."
/.../
"Typically CSA farms are small, independent, labor-intensive family farms. By providing a guaranteed market through prepaid annual sales consumers essentially help finance farming operations. This allows farmers to not only focus on quality growing but can also level the playing field in a food market that favors large-scale, industrialized agriculture over local food."
/.../
"CSA members purchase only what the farm is able to successfully grow and harvest sharing some of the growing risk with the farmer. If the strawberry crop is not successful, for example, the CSA member will share the burden of the crop failure by receiving fewer, or lower quality, strawberries for the season."
/.../
"The environment’s benefit is quite simple- the minimal transportation required to transport food locally is a significant reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. Many CSA farmers also produce their food without the use of pesticides or inorganic fertilizers, so they are as natural as possible, limiting their impact on the environment."

wiki link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture

one of the biggest community with 13,000 subscribers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_Fresh_To_You

docu film:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Dirt_on_Farmer_John

Just set up the basic concept for BoP market (working title) a possible service to make easy to get local good quality village food for city people.

Stimulating personal connections and making a community would be also a key value collecting all the stakeholders who care about sustainable farming and turning food supplies as much local as possible.

See posts @ Based on Pig (hungarian)

It was almost complete just needed a little marmalade addition.

1. clean the pumpkin and cut into pieces
2. heat olive oil in a dish
3. put the following into the hot olive: garlic cut into bigger pieces, smashed whole black pepper, fresh ginger cut into little pieces, little lemon peel cut into little pieces, and chilly if you like spicy
4. leave them for a short time in the hot oil (for abut 20 seconds)
5. put the cut pumpkin into the dish and put enough water to cover the pumpkin
6. put salt according to your taste and little lemon juice
7. cook it till the pumpkin become soft and easy to smash
8. mix it with handmixer till it become creamy
9. cook it for another 5 minutes
10. serve hot with toasted pumpkin seeds and dress with pumpkin seed oil

We just started working on Based on Pig project to examine eating habits of the contemporary Budapest by artistic research methods.

You can read more about it on Based on Pig project page.