Inside Spiral Theory Test Kitchen’s Otherworldly Dinner Parties | Eater

"An extravagant, theatrical feast staged in a historic Florentine palazzo that functioned as part installation and part banquet. Guests experienced provocative, sensory-driven elements such as Sicilian-pomelo–infused spherical ice pops described as “edible ball gags” threaded with black leather; miso semifreddo with fermented yuzu rind and wild Madagascar pepper fed via latex-gloved hands emerging from a glory-hole installation; and a 52-spice shibari-bound whole lamb meant to be picked apart with fingers. The venue was outfitted with stripper poles and beds for lounging around a circular, U.N.-style banquet table, encouraging messy, tactile, and intimate modes of dining; the resulting bones, petals, rinds, and pools of edible “blood” then served as the backdrop for the next day’s fashion show when models and performers walked across the banquet-turned-runway. The overall atmosphere intentionally blurred eroticism, communal ritual, and art to reframe notions of intimacy, the body, and connection." - Isabel Ling