Category Archives: food

The Sirivong’s amazing breakfasts

It seems that the possibilities for customising breakfast in bed are rather limited. We can only really think about putting together your loved one’s favourite foods, and adding a flower. A bit boring right? Especially after hearing about Shirley’s amazing breakfasts.

Shirley’s pregnancy came with plenty of complications, forcing her to bed rest and a very strict diet. We all know about pregnant women’s cravings, and we’re sure that a breakfast made of egg whites, wheat bread, peanut butter and a few fruits and veggies will never be one. And Shirley was stuck with that.

However, she was lucky to have such a loving and creative husband. Any good chef will tell you that presentation is about as important as the food itself. Considering that Gat, Shirley’s husband, couldn’t change the dull ingredients, he decided to have a bit of fun with the presentation. And the result is amazing!

Apparently, it all started with funny faces out of eggs and toasts, but he quickly began to elaborate the scenes more and more. It all turned into the exciting adventures of the egg characters around the world: snowboarding, kung-fu fighting, the Olympics, snorkelling, parachuting, or even a tribute to the ‘Angry Birds’ iPod/iPad’s game.

We are gob-smacked at the details and creativity behind every breakfast, each telling a story about the little egg chaps. And it’s definitely helped Shirley through her difficult pregnancy!

You can view all 19 breakfasts here.

(Source: Neatorama)

One idea a day

For over two months now, young designers Matteo Sangalli und Erika Zorzi have entertained design aficionados with their blog, where they come up with peculiar, but utterly simple, designs.

The concept is simple but audacious: one idea a day, turning common and often boring items into exciting ones.

Selecting our favourites turned out to be a rather difficult task though, as most of their ideas are just brilliant! And not only is it all creative and fun, but it’s also accessible and cheap.

So next time you need a coat hanger and a pizza slicer, don’t go Ikea, just recycle an empty egg box and a scratched vinyl!

You can check more of their crazy work on their blog.

(Source: ignant)


Fork and cream sauce

Cable tidies are one of those things we all feel we should have, but often become the reserve of the especially tidy. However, we really now really want one.

This is the bizarrely but accurately named Fork and Cream sauce, by Luf design. The cable winds around the prongs of the fork and can then be secured in the sauce, making the cable look like modern spaghetti. Maybe we’re just hungry, but it looks fantastic to us – and useful if you forgot a fork for your lunch.

And there is also an added charitable bonus – for each fork bought, Luf donates the price of a meal to Save the Children.  Buy one (or just look at more pictures) here.

(via IIHIH)

Edible glasses

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)

Hot Dog?

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)

Edible Fashion

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)

Edible crayons

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)

Lollipop Logos

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)

la Boite Portable Cafe

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)

Slim Chips

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)