Dagny Ros cooks dinner World Expo 1913, Spectra Ensemble provides musical accompaniment.

At the opening of the 1913 World Fair in Ghent, a large banquet took place in the Feestpaleis at Citadel Park. The guests were served a menu of no less than eight courses and could enjoy a dash of music performed by L'harmonie permanente de l'exposition universelle et internationale.

In exactly the same location, the current S.M.A.K., the exhibition Verlust der Mitte by the Swiss Christoph Büchel will end on 27 August. In this lifelike, museum-sized installation, the artist charges the unjust domination of the Western political, economic and social system against the backdrop of the events of the Ghent World Fair.

In the last weekend of 'Uit de Collectie | Verlust der Mitte', S.M.A.K. invites you to take part in a contemporary reinterpretation of the former banquet and accompanying concert. The well-known TV chef Dagny Ros* will prepare a series of festive dishes inspired by the menu of 1913, together with the refugees who were staying at the museum during Christoph Büchel's exhibition.

The Spectra Ensemble, conducted by Filip Rathé, has invited composer Joris Blanckaert to rework the music of that time in a contemporary way.

Practical info

• Friday 25 August 2017 at the entrance hall of S.M.A.K.
• At 19:00.

Original menu from 1913

• Asparagus cream soup
• Pasties (croustades)
• Salmon with Vincent sauce
• Roast beef contre-filet with a vegetable wreath
• Chicken brochette with lettuce heart
• Medallions of crayfish "Bellevue"
• Ice bucket
• Fruit

Contemporary interpretation by Dagny Ros

• Asparagus soup
• Mini pastry with mussels
• Smörrebröd with roast beef and spicy pink potato salad
• Chicken meatballs
• Lemon salmon with creamy dill sauce and crispy princess beans
• Skyr" dessert with meringue and blueberries

Musical accompaniment by Spectra Ensemble:

• Part I: ComposerPeter Vandenberghe: 'Replude' / 'Valse Africe'
• Part II: Composer Joris Blanckaert: 'Zooropa revisited'
• Musicians:
  • Jan Sciffer, cello
  • Jutta Troch, harp
  • Gabi Sultana, keyboard
  • Frank Van Eycken, percussion

* With great flair, Dagny Ros Asmundsdottir introduces you to the healthy and delicious food culture of her native Iceland. For her, food should first and foremost be healthy, pure and natural. She worked in several restaurants, had her own fish shop Fisk Boutique, appeared on television (in the culinary programme 'De Perfecte Keuken' with Piet Huysentruyt, and in 'Toasted!' on Njam!, and published two culinary books 'Easy Iceland' and 'Easy Nordic'.