Philine “invades the senses” in Stockholm

Philine spent the month of September as a visiting scholar at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in Stockholm. As part of her stay, she gave a guest talk about the invasiveness of taste and its relationship to eating as a practice, the complicated negotiations surrounding introduced species, and the different oysters that populate the waters of Sweden and the United States. Since taste is, she argues, invasive to our bodies, oysters are an expensive commodity, and some people do not eat flesh of any sorts, she served a jellified seaweed broth in oyster shells to kick off her investigation into the realms of seafood, culinary capital, and taste-making.