Created by Bo Songvisa and Dylan Jones of Bo.lan with writer and farmer Leisa Tyler, {Re} is a Food Forum exploring waste, farming and sustainability in the food industry in Asia that will be held in Bangkok on 18 - 19 March, 2018.
Welcome {Re} Food Forum the brainchild of Chefs Bo and Dylan, together with writher/farmer Leisa Tyler, a 2 day symposium in Bangkok that will bring together 40 of the leading minds and original thinkers of the sustainable food industry.
"It is about considering all aspects of food production, from environment and sustainable farming techniques, to packaging, waste and the use of indigenous ingredients"
The Forum line-up and its topics was just announced on their website but in short, broken into a series of key topics, each day will involve up to 40 speakers, including scientists, chefs, farmers, food historians and social entrepreneurs giving concise 10-20-minute TED like talks.
A Food Forum founded by two of the best chefs in the city would not be a food forum without amazing food. Lunches served at {Re} will be cooked by a coterie of local and international chefs using “ugly veg”; produce that due to its shape or size, is typically thrown away by supermarkets. One of the lunches wil be by “those fucking chefs”, a collective of chefs that go the length to serve us the most exquisite food and are able to tell us not only what they are cooking but exactly where it is from and why.
“We hope that through the {Re} Food Forum, we can inspire people involved in food production to start making the changes needed for a better and more sustainable industry”, says Chef Dylan. “We hope we can prompt initiatives and show how the food systems, whilst part of the problem- can also be part of the solution."
Alongside the two-day Food Forum, {Re} will hold a series of collaborative dinners and masterclasses with visiting chefs. All exterior events will be run on {Re}’s core principles, including limiting waste using only sustainable and locally grown produce and working with Asian endemic ingredients, many which due to the onset of commercial farming, are on the verge of disappearing.