The craft of ‘weckpotjes’
3-8-2011
There are a few people that have the skills and craft to make traditional ‘weckpotjes’, canned vegetables of fruits conserved by vacuum and sweet or sour. The fanatic people of ‘Picnic in the Park’ are one of those few. They describe themselfs as “energetic dreamers with a passion for canning who work on the set up of a small scale canning company to make products that combine the tastes of the old days with now”. Their products have names like ‘Bright Pickle Banner’, ‘Picallilli circus’, ‘Route du Soleil’ and ‘Ooops onion by the way’.
Special kit on your fries?
3-8-2011
For the real handyman, if he is in charge of the to BBQ. Three varieties, mayonaise, kitchup and mosterdtix.
Healthy breakfast at McDonald’s
2-8-2011
Fruit & Maple Oatmeal; McDonald’s combines warm and delicious 100% natural whole-grain oats with brown sugar and a touch of cream and put in diced fresh apples, dried cranberries and two kinds of raisins.
DailyBurns Meal Snap App
2-8-2011
Meal Snap lets you take pictures of the meals you eat and then magically tells you what food was in your meal. How Meal Snap Works: Snap a photo of your meal, add a descriptive caption and let the system auto-magically detect the nutritional breakdown, keep track of your meals & progress over time. Blogger Denise Amrich did test the app.
The Foodloop
2-8-2011
The heat resistant silicone food trussing tool designed to replace kitchen string and toothpicks in the prep and cooking process. Use thefoodloop® to hold small stuffed, rolled, bunched and wrapped meats, fish and veggies. Heat-resistant to 675ºF / 357ºC, reusable.
Picnicking without the mess
1-8-2011
Very clever picnic blanket and garbage bag in-one. The CleanPicnic blanket, made of recycled plastic, is a blanket of 1 by 1 meter. After a picnic, the blanket can easily be transformed to a garbage bag, by putting the 3 ends through a opening in the fourth end. You throw the garbage bag away and thereby as well all the mess. You can also place an add at the blanket/garbage bag.
Share your holiday on Facebook
1-8-2011
The Great Wolf Lodge chain in the United States provides RFID wristbands to their guests. These were used as room keys and in-house charge accounts before. But nowadays, these wristbands can be used to transmit photos, taken at the so-called Paw Posts in the park, to a Facebook wall. Share your offline experiences online.
spoontrip for gastronomy and wine
1-8-2011
Spoontrip is an international platform for a variety of activities around gastronomy and wine. The webiste is based on a crowdsourced concept and offers everything from workshops to meet-and-greets to gastronomy-themed holidays.
Inspiration from New York City
29-7-2011
Coffee biscuits inspired by the logo’s of a city or tourist spots, designed by Eleni Gianopulos.
Measure water from the faucet
27-7-2011
This handy water meter is directly mounted on the faucet or a bottle. The concept design is very useful in the kitchen and will save water. If the amount of liters could be fixed beforehand than it would be perfect.
