hello, we are lowfood.

a collective of culinary minds

Together, we take on food issues with creativity and craft. Because we believe these skills are an essential force for changing the way we eat. Driven by flavour, we carry ideas beyond the kitchen into labs, classrooms and boardrooms. We explore, taste, refine and repeat. All to shape a better palate for our planet. Future proof, exciting and most of all: delicious.

Low Food

What we do in a nutshell

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bite by bite


We believe culinary creativity is an essential force for changing the way we eat. Not just a luxury. We connect the best palates in the industry to crack tough food challenges.

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The latest Lowfood labs (03)

The LOWFOOD Labs are culinary experiments that bring together a curated group of culinary minds, chefs, craftsmen, scientists, artists and more. Over a timeline of four months we work on recipes and products together. We partner with both commercial and non-commercial partners and take on challenges related to biodiversity, protein transition, and food waste. All labs are published open sourced, as we believe in market making; where demand stimulates supply. Through the Labs, we create delicious ideas, recipes and products that show how the food system of the future can be more diverse, sustainable and resilient.

Together we explore, taste, refine and repeat.

Moromi

What’s left after soy sauce might be the start of something else entirely. Moromi is rich, complex and with remarkable culinary potential. We brought it back to the kitchen.

WITH

Baldo Margiotta (Fort Negen), Henk Scheele (Hoeksche Chips), Tessa van der Geer (Low Food), Yascha Oosterberg (RIJKS), Ivana Mik (RIJKS), Robin de Vogel (Ceramics), Kuniyoshi Ohtawara (Hokkai), Nicole McMahon (Trouble & Spice), Samuel Levie (Brandt & Levie), Vasco Sousa (Heron), Josephien Blom (Heron), Willem Wolf (Choux), Dirk Groeneveld (Choux)

PARTNER(S)

Tomasu

Moromi
Moromi

Moromi

What’s left after soy sauce might be the start of something else entirely. Moromi is rich, complex and with remarkable culinary potential. We brought it back to the kitchen.

WITH

Baldo Margiotta (Fort Negen), Henk Scheele (Hoeksche Chips), Tessa van der Geer (Low Food), Yascha Oosterberg (RIJKS), Ivana Mik (RIJKS), Robin de Vogel (Ceramics), Kuniyoshi Ohtawara (Hokkai), Nicole McMahon (Trouble & Spice), Samuel Levie (Brandt & Levie), Vasco Sousa (Heron), Josephien Blom (Heron), Willem Wolf (Choux), Dirk Groeneveld (Choux)

PARTNER(S)

Tomasu

Moromi

Moromi

What’s left after soy sauce might be the start of something else entirely. Moromi is rich, complex and with remarkable culinary potential. We brought it back to the kitchen.

WITH

Baldo Margiotta (Fort Negen), Henk Scheele (Hoeksche Chips), Tessa van der Geer (Low Food), Yascha Oosterberg (RIJKS), Ivana Mik (RIJKS), Robin de Vogel (Ceramics), Kuniyoshi Ohtawara (Hokkai), Nicole McMahon (Trouble & Spice), Samuel Levie (Brandt & Levie), Vasco Sousa (Heron), Josephien Blom (Heron), Willem Wolf (Choux), Dirk Groeneveld (Choux)

PARTNER(S)

Tomasu

Moromi
Moromi

Chestnut

The chestnut has history. But we’re more interested in its future. Beneath that familiar shell sits an ingredient ready to stretch far beyond what we thought we knew.

WITH

Mychel Jansen (Vermaat), Jelger de L'Orme (Holy Shit creative collective), Kazuya Mastumoto (Chef), Hanne van Beuningen (Bakkerij Mater), Noah Oudejans (Fermentation scientist), Splinter Dreesmann (Fermi Foods), Marta Marszal (Eat.Nourish.Change), Kaj de Jager (de Predetariër), Lars Charas (Oil library)

PARTNER(S)

WNF

Chestnut
Chestnut

Chestnut

The chestnut has history. But we’re more interested in its future. Beneath that familiar shell sits an ingredient ready to stretch far beyond what we thought we knew.

WITH

Mychel Jansen (Vermaat), Jelger de L'Orme (Holy Shit creative collective), Kazuya Mastumoto (Chef), Hanne van Beuningen (Bakkerij Mater), Noah Oudejans (Fermentation scientist), Splinter Dreesmann (Fermi Foods), Marta Marszal (Eat.Nourish.Change), Kaj de Jager (de Predetariër), Lars Charas (Oil library)

PARTNER(S)

WNF

Chestnut

Chestnut

The chestnut has history. But we’re more interested in its future. Beneath that familiar shell sits an ingredient ready to stretch far beyond what we thought we knew.

WITH

Mychel Jansen (Vermaat), Jelger de L'Orme (Holy Shit creative collective), Kazuya Mastumoto (Chef), Hanne van Beuningen (Bakkerij Mater), Noah Oudejans (Fermentation scientist), Splinter Dreesmann (Fermi Foods), Marta Marszal (Eat.Nourish.Change), Kaj de Jager (de Predetariër), Lars Charas (Oil library)

PARTNER(S)

WNF

Chestnut
Chestnut

Mycelium

It grows beneath our feet, out of sight. Mycelium brings its own texture, its own story, its own bite. We followed its lead.

WITH

Ayane Kogure (HYSSOP), Emile Samson (European Miso Institute), Eyad Khamis (Mama’s Keuken), Rene van der Heijden (Hemel & Aarde), Annemarie Verboom (Atelier Annemarie), Thomas Val (Wils), Tessa van der Geer (LOWFOOD), Sabine Schäfer, Zuzana van Beveren, Carlos Martinez (Cargill), Wendy Luong (Wendy the Food Scientist), Yacinth Pos (Designer & Culinary Storyteller)

PARTNER(S)

ENOUGH & Cargill

Mycelium
Mycelium

Mycelium

It grows beneath our feet, out of sight. Mycelium brings its own texture, its own story, its own bite. We followed its lead.

WITH

Ayane Kogure (HYSSOP), Emile Samson (European Miso Institute), Eyad Khamis (Mama’s Keuken), Rene van der Heijden (Hemel & Aarde), Annemarie Verboom (Atelier Annemarie), Thomas Val (Wils), Tessa van der Geer (LOWFOOD), Sabine Schäfer, Zuzana van Beveren, Carlos Martinez (Cargill), Wendy Luong (Wendy the Food Scientist), Yacinth Pos (Designer & Culinary Storyteller)

PARTNER(S)

ENOUGH & Cargill

Mycelium

Mycelium

It grows beneath our feet, out of sight. Mycelium brings its own texture, its own story, its own bite. We followed its lead.

WITH

Ayane Kogure (HYSSOP), Emile Samson (European Miso Institute), Eyad Khamis (Mama’s Keuken), Rene van der Heijden (Hemel & Aarde), Annemarie Verboom (Atelier Annemarie), Thomas Val (Wils), Tessa van der Geer (LOWFOOD), Sabine Schäfer, Zuzana van Beveren, Carlos Martinez (Cargill), Wendy Luong (Wendy the Food Scientist), Yacinth Pos (Designer & Culinary Storyteller)

PARTNER(S)

ENOUGH & Cargill

Mycelium
Mycelium

the chefs academy

We believe culinary creativity is an essential force for changing the way we eat. LOWFOOD hosts academies that prepare a next generation of chefs for the kitchen challenges of today and tomorrow. 

In the complex world of food, there is rarely a single right answer. But with the right tools, menu design becomes an exercise in conscious choices: in ingredients, form and narrative.

“ If we want to use gastronomy as a force for good we need all types of culinary talents”

“ If we want to use gastronomy as a force for good we need all types of culinary talents”

– Joris Bijdendijk

“ If we want to use gastronomy as a force for good we need all types of culinary talents”

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