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Chefs are a lot like hardware hackers. Both geek out, absorbing the specs of (vegetables|technology) for the purpose of creating something that nobody else has: (innovative food|new machines). So what happens when the kitchen becomes a hack lab? Something delicious. Something geeky. - And what if being a designer for user experience is like being a chef? FH: Towards an anarchist food aesthetic.
"Observation of eating and drinking behaviour and of the emotional reactions triggered by such behaviour provides unique possibilities to help the food and drink industry design products and experiences that fit special situations and evoke hedonistic experiences.", says the European Centre for the Experience Economy on the project 'Restaurant of the Future'.
Cook and interaction designer Ryan Freitas wrote an article on what he learned in a restaurant kitchen as a metaphor for Adaptive Path's design studio. (Ambidextrous Magazine special issue on Food from Stanford Institute of Design)
Just found the Y! epicenter on Food. Very general, but still useful...
