KeTo Reporter is beer from tobacco
6-7-2012
Beer and tobacco don’t match anymore because of the ban on smoking in bars and restaurants. With the KeTo Reporter by Italian brewer ‘Birra del Borgo’ this can change. The starting beer is Re Porter, then Kentucky tobacco leaves are added. The tobacco gives the beer its pitch black color and spicy taste.
Update: The beer is from Friday available at ‘De Bierwinkel‘ in Leiden (The Netherlands).
No waste icecreambowl
5-7-2012
At the Reader’s Digest Food Blog you will find great recipes. We particularly liked these icebowls. No waste, sustainable and a great way to serve ice cream, even in restaurants… At the foodblog Kitchen Vignettes there’s a video about the making of.
Neige Ice cider
4-7-2012
This Neige Ice cider is produced in the same way as eiswein, de apples will stay in the tree until the temperature drops to -7°C. A lot of attention has been paid to the packaging, therefore this could be a nice gift idea.
Bacteria killing wand
4-7-2012
It looks like magic. According to the producer of this Instant-Sanitizing Kitchen Wand, bacteria will be killed in only 20 seconds by using the UV-illumination.
Picnicking on the water
3-7-2012
This summer, the Picknick Company (Dutch) offers picnics on the water in and around Rotterdam. A private captain shows you by boat all the nice picnic places.
Lunch Hour NYC
2-7-2012
From the 29th of June, the New York Public Library opened the exhibition Lunch Hour NYC. This exhibition features all the lunch trends of over the past century. Find out how the pizza became popular in New York City, and when the first Chinese restaurants opened their doors. Did you know that the foodtrucks were already popular about a century ago…?
Sneak peeking at the neighbors
2-7-2012
Everybody does is secretly, but now you can undisturbed sneak peeking at the neighbors. Artist Mike Hewson created an artwork of a destroyed building in Christchurch in New Zealand. Several photo’s and multi-media installations are mounted on the outside of the building, where life of the former residents are shown.
Harvest festival potato
28-6-2012
This coming 14th of July, the Harvest festival in the theme of the potato takes place in Amsterdam Roest, organized by Youth Food Movement and artist Sascha Landshoff. The potato is one of the most eaten, but as well one of the least rated vegetation in the Netherlands. This festival takes place in a time of the estrangement the urban consumers have with their food.
Food photography
28-6-2012
Big Appetites is an exhibition of artist Chistopher Boffoli. With this photo’s he is referencing to as well a cultural fascination with tiny things as well as an American enthusiasm for excess. This exhibition is open to visit between the 21st of July through August 24th in New York.
Kikkerpret swimming classes at Kos and Ibiza
27-6-2012
Dutch swimming school Kikkerpret organizes swimming classes at Kos and Ibiza. Children from three to twelve years old can get their A, B of C swimming certificate during their vacation.