Dip tea biscuits

20-8-2012

A cup of tea is best enjoyed with a cookie. These tea bag cookies are ideal to dip in your tea. Click here for the recipe.

Cultivate veggies with the Agri-Cube

16-8-2012

The Japanese company Daiwa House Industry developed the Agri-Cube; a unit that fits a standard parking place, which can be used to cultivate several types of vegetables. The temperature, the fertilization and drainage can automatically be controlled. This unit is especially suitable for leafy vegetables such as lettuce. Lettuce heads can be grown within 42 days.

Breakfast with giraffe

15-8-2012

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Giraffe Manor is the only place in the world where you can eat breakfast with giraffe. This iconic historical building from the 1930s is often visited by a herd of eight resident Rothschild giraffe in the mornings and evenings. See here more about this cool place in Nairobi, Kenya.

LYFE organic fast-food

15-8-2012

LYFE Kitchen is an organic fast-food alternative with great ambitions. The founders of LYFE, an acronym for ‘love your food everyday’, are former McDonald’s employees and want to open hundreds of restaurants in the next five years. McDonald’s former chief operating officer Mike Roberts and former chief of communications officer Mike Donahue opened a prototype restaurant on Hamilton Avenue in Palo Alto. They improve the cooking process and the logistics to save every second possible. When customers order they receive a coaster with a RFID tag. By this tag a runner can locate the table with the order. The restaurant offers organic brussel sprouts as alternative for french fries. Watch the video for about the kitchen of LYFE.

Colourful patisserie concept store of Adriano Zumbo

14-8-2012

Planning a trip to Sydney? The concept store by Adriano Zumbo is worth visiting. This is a well-known patissier, known from his creative dessert and sweets.

E-cookbook Laurent Gras: My Provence

14-8-2012

The French Michelin starred-chef Laurent Gras published his first cookbook as an e-cookbook for the iPad. The digital cookbook features 40 French recipes that reflect the chef’s food background growing up on the French Côte d’Azur, including step-by-step photos and videos. The e-cookbook can also be viewed on a laptop or computer.

Top 10 best Street Food cities

14-8-2012

Members of VirtualTourist.com composedthe Top 10 best Street Food cities. Bangkok (Thailand) can be find on the first place with Soi Rambuttri in the old part of the city. On the second place, we find Singapore, because of the variety in dishes. On the third place we find Penang in Malaysia because of the multicultural kitchen. The Top 10 looks as follows:

1. Bangkok, Thailand
2. Singapore
3. Penang, Malaysia
4. Marrakech, Marocco
5. Palermo, Sicily
6. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
7. Istanbul, Turkey
8. Mexico City, Mexico
9. Brussels, Belgium
10. Beachside Ceviche in Ambergris Caye, Belize

Edible art by Dan Cretu

8-8-2012

Romanian artist Dan Cretu makes edible art with cucumber, peppers, oranges and other food. Inspire yourself by the examples on his Tumbler page.

I love witlof | chicory

6-8-2012

The witlof / chicory growers of The Greenery publish a social media cookbook with the most popular recipes. People can add these recipes to the Facebook page and ‘Like’ them during the I love Witlof campaign. The main goal of the campaign is to activate young females to cook with witloof chicory. The social media cookbook is available from September.

Anchodina

6-8-2012

Anchodina is sardine fillet that has been salted and pressurized for 8 months and put in olive oil. The result is a mild salty sardine with a tender texture.

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