Entries categorized as ‘food’
In what has been one of the best British summers for several years, the nation is going crazy for picnics. The problem is, once you’ve been to a couple of them, they all tend to blend in to one. Unless you can find someting funky to spice them up…
These glasses from the lovely The Way We See The World have the rather excellent quality of being totally edible. They are made from agar agar, and come in flavours including lemon-basil, ginger-mint, or rosemary-beet, so you can match the glass to your drink. We love the idea of Pimms in a ginger-mint glass, for example…
The other brilliant thing about them being edible is that they are of course also completely biodegradable. In fact, they actually aid plant growth. So when you’ve finished (or just when you inevitably break a glass) you can throw it in to the flower bed and feel good about it.
(via ifitshipitshere)
Categories: Plants · creative · design · drink · environment · food · green
Tagged: edible, summer, picnic, glasses, agar agar
We know that Britain is a nation of pet lovers but sometimes people’s love for pets surprises us nonetheless.
This is one of those times. “K99″ (K-9 = Canine – get it?) is an ice-cream van dedicated to dogs. Flavours include a delicious sounding “gammon and chicken ice cream, a traditional wafer cone with the ultimate finishing touch – a crunchy canine biscuit bone.” Apparently the temperature and consistency are specially suited to dogs, having being tested extensively…
The van is due to appear for the first time in Regent’s Park on July 24th for the pets & owners Boomerang Party. So if Pedigree Chum just doesn’t cut it for your (spoiled) pooch, then get yourself over there…
(source: Metro)
Categories: creative · food · green
Tagged: Boomerang, dog, Hot dog, ice cream, party, pets, Regent's Park
This has to be one of the stranger combinations we’ve come across.
Fulvio Bonavia is in fact not a fashion designer but a creative photographer who has put together these shots for his series “A Matter of Taste”.
The bad pun aside, this stuff is pretty interesting. We especially liked the belt made from tiny fish, although wouldn’t recommend wearing it…
(source: Design Fetish)
Categories: creative · food · green
Tagged: A Matter of Taste, fashion, food, Fulvio Bonavia, photography
We reckon these things could be every child’s dream… and every parent’s nightmare.
These crayons from Luxirare may look fairly normal, but they are in fact completely edible.
More to the point, they actually look pretty tasty, being made out of fruits, chocolate and nuts, and crucially being held together with marshmallow. And you can of course draw with them, should you be so inclined.
We can see children loving the ability to draw for a bit and then just start eating whenever it gets boring. We can see parents hating the fact that they have to buy a new pack of crayons every five minutes.
(via Notcot)
Categories: art · baby creative · creative · food
Tagged: Luxirare, crayons, edible, marshmallow
Sugar is just sugar, right? We’ve never understood the plethora of chocolate bars, sweets, cakes and stuff – it all looks and tastes roughly the same, after all. But we love these things.
These creations are the work of Massimo Gammacurta , who made them for a photography still-life project, and has now published a book of the work called inventively called lolli-pop.
The thing is, much as these things are pretty cool (especially the MTV one, which must have taken serious work), we really don’t want to eat them – they just look wrong.
(source: If it’s Hip, it’s here)
Categories: advertising · creative · food
Tagged: food, lolli-pop, lollipop, Massimo Gammacurta, photography
The cafe culture seems to be one of those things that just keeps on growing. And of course alongside this, we therefore have cafes all trying to do something new and different to make sure they get a slice of the pie. Which is why we were a bit mystified by la Boite when we first saw it.
It is, at first glance, an old trailer. Not much threat to Starbucks and co. However, we were slightly missing the point.
The idea of la Boite (designed for designSTUDIO by Mark Meyer) is that it is portable. The cafe comes to wherever it is needed. During the day, it could sit outside a huge office block, and then it could move to sleepy suburbia for the evenings and weekends.
And what’s more,
La Boite is a green, environmentally sensitive cafe with locally baked goods, sandwiches, and coffee, built from an old shipping container. For the project, DesignSTUDIO used Rainwater HOG’s for greywater collection, biobased spray foam insulation, and Forbo linoleum for the floor and one wall.
So all in all we’re rather impressed. We’re just still not sure we’d have coffee in a trailer.
(source: Architecture4Us via Notcot)
Categories: baby creative · design · drink · environment · food · green · home · transport
Tagged: cafe, designSTUDO, la Boite, Mark Meyer
Everyone loves chips (or crisps, if you speak real english) but it remains one of those horrible facts of life that they are really quite fattening. Hafsteinn Juliusson has however become our favourite Icelander of the week, and come up with a calorie (and guilt) free option.
Slim Chips are in fact made purely from edible paper, and then flavoured and coloured with wholly organic products to create blueberry, peppermint and sweet potato chips (crisps).
The copy on the bags reads “Instead of getting fat you can now eat paper with flavour. It’s like eating tasty air.” which we think is absolutely brilliant.
This product launched last week in ultra-stylish Milan (naturally) and we just hope it comes to the rest of the world soon. Otherwise we’ll have to try and make our own from printer paper…
(source: Design Fetish)
Categories: baby creative · creative · food
Tagged: slim, chips, crisps, Hafsteinn Juliusson, fat, calorie
We’ve always been a fan of crazy architecture and schemes. This is however probably the oddest we have come across yet.
This multicoloured monstrosity is a representation of a scheme by the appropriately named Whim Architects from the Netherlands – to collect all the plastic floating around in the sea and turn it into an island. An island the size of Hawaii.
So it’s a little terrifying that there is enough plastic in the sea to do this in the first place. That aside, we love the execution. The idea would be to have beaches, housing made from recycled plastic, farms fertilised with human waste, seaweed grown for biofuels, and power harvested from the sun and sea. Essentially, you take a whole pile of waste and turn it into a green, self-sufficient community.
The plan is to float this thing somewhere between San Fransisco and the current Hawaii – precisely the middle of nowhere. We reckon it should be towed around for people to jump on as their real island chains (The Maldives, etc) sink under the waves.
(via Inhabitat)
Categories: Conservation · Plants · creative · environment · food · home · think tank · transport
Tagged: architects, hawaii, island, recycled, renewable, self-sufficient, Whim
For some people, food presentation is simply a waste of time and effort. After all, it’s the taste that’s important so why dress up the food? Well these people really don’t have any excuse any more thanks to this bizarre product from Deli Garage.
Essentially all this is a spray which turns your food gold. Or silver. It is however fully edible, meaning you can dress up your plates with this stuff and then serve them as normal. And the packaging is pretty excellent as well.
However, we’re really not sure whether this stuff actually looks good. Personally, eating metal doesn’t really appeal. Plus we’d love to see what happened if you tried to do this to soup…
(via The Coolist)
Categories: baby creative · creative · food
Tagged: gold, silver, esslack, deli garage, spray
Now from the title you might think we’re talking about some dodgy place in the wrong end of Istanbul, but we’ve actually found somewhere even older.
This was in fact the fast food shop of Vetutius Placidus in Pompeii, which closed one thousand, nine hundred and twenty one years ago, and reopened yesterday, with quite a bit of the original decor still in tact.
Fast food of course seems like a very modern thing, but the Romans apparently loved the stuff, with many people in Pompeii not even having kitchens and getting takeaway on a regular basis. And if you look closely, you can see there’s not even that much that has changed.
You’ve still got the long, L-shaped counter, and people could either sit in or take away. Apparently the real difference is the food, with considerably less kebabs and pizza, and more cheese, honey and assorted fruits.
Still, it’s nice to know that at the height of the Roman Empire, they were still no more cultured than a bunch of boozy students…
(Kuriositas via Notcot)
Categories: Conservation · drink · food · home
Tagged: fast food, Pompeii, Roman
