OPENharvest: An Art project in Oakland, CA by OPENrestaurant (see openrestaurant.org)
An amazingly large number, more than 450,000 wild deer and boar are killed as pests each year in Japan for the damage they cause to rice field and other crops. But even harder to believe, is that only 10% of this wild game is eaten. With the performance of Nippon Gibier, chefs from OPEN Harvest and chef Fujiki will spit roast several whole wild boar over charcoal. A demonstration of the butchering of a whole deer will be accompanied by a video of the deconstruction of a whole maguro (tuna) drawing a comparison between two wild foods. They also hope to play a video of the hunt and capture of the very same wild deer and boar on a large screen.
