The Circut Cake
28-11-2010
The Circut Cake is a printer for decorations of cakes. Where a regular printer prints ink on paper, the Circuit Cake cuts shapes from cookie dough, icing, marzipan, chocolate and other ingredients used for decorating pastries. The Circut Cake is available for $ 270, =.
Less common parts dinner
28-11-2010
Last Sunday restaurant Fifteen restaurant in Amsterdam organized a ‘Less common shares dinner’. It was a seven-course menu with ‘less common parts’ of food. These ingredients are often discarded because they are ‘scary’. Many chefs are scared to work woth ingredients like: kidneys, bone marrow or blood. By wokring with less common parts the initiators want to make sure kitchens will work more sustainably.
Clever Spoon
27-11-2010
In the kitchen you often work with precise amounts of various ingredients. With the Clever Spoon it is easy to measure these quantities. The Clever Spoon has a slide which indicates different amounts. The Clever Spoon consists of two parts and is therefore easy to clean.
Dining with the dogs
23-11-2010
Through the website of Dining With Dogs, people can see what restaurants ‘dog friendly ‘. It is also possible to leave a review. People can share their opinion with other dog lovers on Facebook and other social networks. Currently there are restaurants on the website in New York, Chicago, California, Arizona and Florida.
Porn in a cup
21-11-2010
The Pulp and The Coffee Bean offers a cup of coffee which contains ten times the standard amount of espresso. The coffee should not be sold to people over forty years or hart failure and is described as ‘porn in a cup’. The drink is called “Dieci”, Italian for the number ten.
Inflatable marketing
20-11-2010
Artist Joshua Allen Harris is very creative with plastic bags. By attaching prefabricated shapes on the ducts of a subway, he makes the most creative artwork.
Luminous nano-tree
19-11-2010
Scientists in Taiwan created an environmentally friendly alternative to streetlights. They developed a luminous tree. By applying golden nanoparticles to the leaves of a Bacopa plant, the leaves light up. In the future, they think of using this technique on roadsides to save energy costs and to reduce the CO2-emissions.
High Tea at Omar Munie
18-11-2010
On November 17th the Dutch bag designer Omar Munie opened a new store in Rotterdam. In this store he sells his bags and during the weekends a Bag & Tea is offered on the first floor of the building. During a high tea, the customers can search for the perfect bag. Munie wants to give his customers a relaxed feeling of being together. The menu offers sweets like cupcakes but also several savory dishes as quiche and sambusa.
Pop-up terraces on NY sidewalks
17-11-2010
The government of New York is looking for restaurant and café owners who are willing to open pop-up terraces on the sidewalk, during the summers of 2011 and 2012. Those who are interested can subscribe online. If the owners are chosen to open a pop-up terrace, they have to design and maintain the terrace.
Purple brussel sprouts
15-11-2010
Many people don’t really like them; brussel sprouts. But these purple brussel sprouts by Ecoville are sweeter and mild. Many people find them tastier than the traditional green brussel sprouts. Another advantage is that the purple brussel sprouts are healthier because the purple color indicates the presence of powerful antioxidants.