Episode 5: Magnetic Cuisine
Presentation of the world's first cookbook on magnetic cuisine

Presentation of the cookbook with Miss Magnetiq, Nickel, Cobalt and Mangan.
Multi-course menu with magnetic food and drinks from the donauwirtinnen.
Background music by Monster Magnet, Nine Inch Nails, Iron Maiden & Co.

After several months of work and numerous cookery courses at the Ottakring adult education centre in Vienna, a 120-page cookbook with 44 recipes for superheroes is now available. In all the recipes, special emphasis is placed on the use of foods containing iron. Ludicrous magnetic production methods are used and readers are taught the secrets of magnetic cooking step by step. In addition to the recipes in the categories ‘Starters’, ‘Main Dishes’, ‘Desserts’ and ‘Drinks & Cocktails’, the cookbook also contains endearing anecdotes from Miss Magnetiq and her three assistants as well as recipe illustrations by Susanna Flock, Sun Lia Lian Obwegeser, Martin Bruner and Stefan Eibelwimmer.

The cookbook on magnetic cuisine is published by Bibliothek der Provinz and will be presented to the public on Saturday, 17 November 2018 from 6 pm - with a multi-course menu featuring food and drinks from the cookbook, served by the donauwirtinnen in their tavern in Alturfahr. Miss Magnetiq, Nickel, Kobalt and Mangan will read a few stories to accompany the meal, the original illustrated recipes will be on display and there will be musical accompaniment from Monster Magnet, Nine Inch Nails, Die Krupps, Metallica and Iron Maiden.

This cookbook opens up a new era in the history of cuisine. Trends such as Fermented Flavour, Infinite Food, Bang Bang Platforms or Fast Good are water under the bridge compared to what can be experienced in this book. It is about nothing more and nothing less than the next big revolution in cooking: magnetic cuisine.

The so-called ‘magnetic cuisine’ goes far beyond previous attempts at physical and chemical combinations in the culinary field. Molecular cooking, low cooking or nano cooking seem like children's first experiments with a chemistry set. The magnetic kitchen not only utilises the latest physical findings such as high-temperature superconductivity, quantum levitation or diamagnetic effects in nano-carbon tubes, but is also unique in its interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach. It brings together theories and methods as diverse as post-mesmerism, real-life superhero re-enactment and magic-queer metamorphosis.

This cookbook remains very close to the practice of simple cooking. The 40 recipes are presented step by step in easy-to-understand language. They are divided into four categories: Starters, Main Dishes, Desserts and Drinks & Cocktails. For each recipe, various symbols indicate the cooking time, iron content, level of difficulty and dietary requirements.

As a cookery book should also be a pleasure to read, numerous stories are included alongside the recipes. There are scientific explanations of magnetic and pseudomagnetic theories as well as logbook entries from the superhero quartet Miss Magnetiq, nickel, cobalt and manganese or fashion tips of a slightly different dimension. A drawing was also created exclusively for the cookery book for each of the recipes in ‘Magnetic Cuisine’.