Original invitation Food4You Festival

11-9-2012

The third edition of the Food4You Festival takes place from 3 until the 8th of October, organized in cooperation with institutions like Wageningen University, Hospital Gelderse Vallei and Rijn Ijssel professional school Wageningen. This knowledge festival is all about healthy and good food, with salt as main theme. This years invitation is totally in theme.

BiteMe StreetDinner

7-9-2012

More than fifteen home cooks joined forces to prepare a neighborhood dinner and take it to the Erasmuspark in Amsterdam on the 9th of September. 200 neighbors can experience each others kitchens from 14.00 to 18.00 o’clock.

Tasty ice cream posters

7-9-2012

These brilliant posters are designed by Renata El Dib and look like ice cream cones because of the double sided print.

Meatballshop in Belgium, Balls & glory

6-9-2012

Tv-Chef Wim Ballieu wants to start a chain of meatballshop. He started a pop-up store in Gent at the Sint-Jacobsnieuwstraat in April. The balls – made from the meat from the butcher shop of his father – are filled with creative fillings such as chervil and pancetta, foie gras and even crab. You can eat in the shop and take-out the balls, they are served with ‘stoemp’ (mashed potatoes) or a salad. The balls are very popular; the pop-up setting is changed to a permanent settlement. Furthermore, a branch in Bruges will be opened and a pop-up version will open in Antwerp. We already wrote about The Meatball Shop (NY) and Monday, meatball day at restaurant ‘De Open Keuken’ in Hilversum.

A fully vegetarian McDonald’s

6-9-2012

Next to the Golden Temple in Amritsar in India, a fully vegetarian McDonald’s restaurant will be opened. In the vicinity of this temple, people are not allowed to eat meat.

Humor sells

3-9-2012

This article is only available in Dutch.


Yellow watermelon

3-9-2012

The yellow-fleshed watermelon is the almost identical twin of the red-fleshed watermelon and is described by some, as having a more sweeter, almost honey-like taste, than regular watermelons. We tasted it this summer at various breakfast buffets in the far East and loved it, but found the taste almost equal to the red-fleshed watermelon. But it’s great to make a watermelonsalad with both colors!

The first Urban Food Week in London

3-9-2012

This September (10-16), London will feast on the fabulous local produce being grown, produced and cooked on its doorstep, with the capital city’s first Urban Food Week . The week of activities is being organised to highlight the importance of buying and eating local food, urban growing and planting forage for bees. During the week, restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs across the city will be showcasing dishes and drinks made with ultra-local fruit, veg and herbs from urban farms, and from London honey cultivated in community beehives.

Alcohol sandwiches in New York

30-8-2012

At the Salumé panini shop in New York it’s possible to order alcohol sandwiches. Chef Steven Hubbell flavors the meat of the breads with whiskey, Gin of grappa. Although most of the alcohol vaporizes during the baking, the panini’s got a lot of attention.

Black ice cream cones

30-8-2012

The Eisdieler in Linz, Austria, serves ice cream in black cones. Black is also the color of the brand design and plays an important role in the ice cream shop. The shop is owned by the former citizen of Rotterdam, Jurgen Bleij.

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