A few days after the primary sale of cultivated meat this weekend in San Francisco, information of José Andrés serving up GOOD Meat on the alternative coast landed in my inbox.
In response to the discharge, Andrés served charcoal-grilled cultivated rooster final evening to a hand-picked group of diners. The dinner included cultivated rooster marinated with anticucho sauce, native potatoes, and ají Amarillo chimichurri, and precedes China Chilcano’s menu debut of the dish, which can be served weekly in restricted portions and by reservation solely later this summer season.
The meal was served in honor of the late Willem van Eelen, often called the “godfather of cultivated meat,” on what would have been his one centesimal birthday yesterday, July 4, 2023. After listening to a lecture on preserving meat, van Eelen, a WW2 prisoner of struggle, got here up with the thought of making meat exterior of the physique of an animal. Over the next many years, van Eelen would begin companies to economize to pursue this concept whereas engaged on it and submitting for patents. He would move away in 2015 on the age of 91, simply two years after Dutch startup Mosa Meat can be the primary to comprehend his thought with their cultured meat hamburger.
GOOD Meat invited van Eelen’s daughter Ira and his grandson Kick (each pictured above) to the tasting.
“I’m grateful {that a} promise my father made many years in the past has come true. I’m so completely satisfied we will cease speaking about it and go eat it, as a result of tasting is believing,” stated Ira van Eelen. “That is the meat we love and belief, simply made in a greater method.”
The sale of GOOD Meat’s cultivated rooster a day after his birthday was not the one synchronous occasion for the van Eelen household this week. On the identical day, the federal government of his residence nation accepted a ‘code of observe’ to permit tastings of cultivated meat to happen inside tightly regulated environments.
