LIFULL Table: Earth Cuisine "Bamboo Sweets"

Eat and help the earth discover new ingredients to protect the world - Earth Cuisine. In the second round of this project, LIFULL are featuring abandoned bamboo forests. Bamboo used … read moreto be an important material for Japanese people. However, the declining demand in recent years has created many abandoned forests which are developing into bamboo-related harms such as landslide damages. To solve this problem, LIFULL came up with a new idea to "eat" bamboo as an ingredient. Using bamboo as a material to make Japanese-style confectionary, with its great tradition of living with the nature of Japan, the project provides an opportunity to explore sustainable solutions for bamboos and to revisit our lives and rethink our lifestyles. Create a sustainable future with a plate to revisit your LIFE. read less...