Ben's Lab

New Future Food episodes every Tuesday!

beaker — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:51:46 +0000

So far we have gotten many positive reviews with the show and we THANK YOU for watching! The next episode to air (Tuesday, April 20th at 10 est) will be Kids Gone Wild. In that episode, we let a bunch of 6 – 7 year old kids come up with our menu. Needless to say, it is an intense culinary ride into the realm of the INSANE!
Below is a link to the scheduled airing of Future Food on Planet Green:

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=237.15642.129039.38836.1

Future Food explodes onto the scene!

beaker — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:16:54 +0000

Ben Roche and Homaro Cantu in the Moto laboratory

The new television series “Future Food” premiered Tuesday, March 30th on Discovery’s Planet Green channel. The first two episodes, titled “Something’s Fishy” and French Evolution”, respectively, aired back-to-back to rave reviews and a few people scratching their heads.

Over the years we have had a few questions always present, always being asked. At the restaurant it’s “how do you guys do it?” and in many interviews it’s “where do these ideas come from?”. Well, now there is a way for you, the viewer, at home, to see that creative process happen and get a behind-the-scenes view of what goes on, how it happens and the reasoning behind some of our cuisine at Moto. It’s all there on your T.V. screen, Tuesdays on Planet Green.

If you are unsure as to whether or not you get Planet Green in your home, just go to www.planetgreen.com and use their “channel finder” button to find out! Thanks, and hope you get to tune in! -Ben

Future Food Tv Show

beaker — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:52:03 +0000

Future Food TV Show is a new series on Planet Green scheduled to premiere March 30th at 10 P.M. EST. It follows myself, Homaro (executive chef of Moto) and everyone else at the restaurant as we address and explore many different “food calamities” occurring now and attempt to fix them using our creative ingenuity and strong will to promote positive change. Some have described us as the “Mythbusters” of food.

For example, how do you get a bunch of 7-year-olds to eat their veggies?…turn them into “deep fried deer heads” or “dirty socks with rocks”. How do you build a better, more sustainable, more substantial burger? Remove the cow from the equation and make your burgers out of what the cow would normally eat. These are just a few examples of things you will see us doing on the show. The show is sort of like the restaurant, “play with your food, but play responsibly”.

If you are enjoying the Future Food TV Show or what Omar and I have been up to lately, us here Disruptive Food. Taste trippers and anybody curious about miracle fruit, you can learn by clicking that here: Mberry

Welcome to Ben’s Lab online

beaker — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:24:22 +0000

The world, of course, is changing, and food is changing along with it. This will not be the place on the web to address current and future concerns regarding food related issues (agricultural practices, corporate processing, the plague of unhealthy eating, those who wish to exploit nature to make it lucrative instead of flourishing, etc.), those issues will be addressed elsewhere, on many fronts and in various states of intensity.

This website is my piece of the internet universe, created to share with you my personal interpretation of a new form of cuisine where there are no rules and no boundaries. For some reason, a lot of people refer to it as “molecular gastronomy”. This style, while possibly confusing, is ultimately good for everyone, if used responsibly. Whatever you want to call it, I would best describe it as fun, purposeful, creative, and above all, delicious. Allow me to demonstrate, and please enjoy.