Tuls

“Tuls. For food experience” is a cutlery set for playing and re-discovering the ritual of eating. Each piece proposes new gestures, uses and sensations. In a world where eat fast is a habit, the project wants to show that it’s possible to know better the food if we live the act of the eating into an experimentation: with new tools it’s possible to train our senses and have a new awareness of what we’re eating. The set is composed of six cutlery and scented cards that show three different approaches to food: eating slow, tactile stimulation and olfactory stimulation. The first approach, eating slow, allows to taste better the food, because it helps to undestand organoleptic qualities: if we are eating slowly, it’s possible to think about the taste, the smell, the shape and the texture of food. The tools for the tactile stimulation want to emphasize the texture of food: so, if we eat a creamy ice cream with a hard and pointed tool, its features are emphasized and contrasted and this confuses us. The scented cards propose different aromas: their purpose is to show the importance of smell during the act of eating. The cards are added at the tools and with these it’s possible emphasized the flavors of food or create contrasts between the smell and the taste.