'Data-Cuisine' Chefs Serve Another Round of Informative Treats

Diners at a recent banquet in Gembloux, Belgium, got a taste of their own fates with a macabre dessert: 3D-printed chocolate coffins representing the country’s most common causes of death. Bite into a candy hiding a blood-colored, fruity filling, for instance, and you’re eating cardiovascular disease; sample ones with white, chalky-looking blobs or black powder to savor respiratory illness or pollution, respectively.

Yet these grim treats weren’t even the most surreal offering of the day. The feast, organized by the group Data Cuisine, also featured libido-lifting doughnuts that played on sex and the seasons, and gin and tonics glowing like nuclear fuel rods. It was just the latest Data Cuisine event to push the boundaries of gustatory geekiness, following up on previous meals of crostini charts, ISIS omelets, and urine-reddening beet hummus.