May 15, 2011 | New Food and Packaging | 
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A year ago you could happily find me here, writing for Lost At E Minor, and cooking away in Los Angeles restaurant kitchens. A year later, I’ve launched Sqirl (for the old saying ‘Squirreling Things Away’), a preservation company dedicated to jams, jellies, and marmalades made from certified organic seasonal fruit no more than 200 miles from Sqirl’s commercial kitchen. Read more
December 3, 2010 | New Food and Packaging | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
‘Tis the season for hard cider. So says Eric Asimov, and people tend to heed his recommendations. At least, I do. So while I scour my favorite haunts for the beautiful natural cider from Julien Frémont’s symbiotic Apple Orchard and Cattle Farm in Normandy, France (you must find this), I’m also looking for Lobo’s honest Cider rendition: cloudy and unfiltered from Adelaide Hills, Australian apples. Read more
November 1, 2010 | New Food and Packaging | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
For people with a passion of food and design alike, this is one book that deserves to be added to the cookbook library. Part recipes, part storytelling, part graphic design, relays the process of Salumi making through the great work of Cristiano Creminelli — owner of Creminelli Fine Meats. Read more
October 14, 2010 | New Food and Packaging | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
How often is it that you have to break something in order to make it work? Rarely, I hope. Unless, of course, it’s Studio Kahn’s new Salt and Pepper shakers. The two shakers are conjoined by their pouring ends, which one must effectively snap like a tree (with some ‘Hi-Yah!’) in order to make them function. Read more
September 19, 2010 | New Food and Packaging | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
Finally, a group of creative types in the United States have come together with a mission to make wine labels cool, approachable, and pleasing to look at. Say hello to Proof Wine Collective. Furthermore, their clients are small wine producers that are exceptionally passionate about winemaking, employing a terroir driven approach to their purple stuff. Read more
September 10, 2010 | New Design | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
Over a year and a half ago we wrote about Scott Barry, a San Francisco-based artist known for whimsically penned illustrations full of simplistic, geometric consciousness and the reoccurring inclusion of photographic imagery alluding to a fantastic, if not psychedelic, 70s dream. Read more
September 9, 2010 | New Food and Packaging | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
It started easily enough; A musician and his wife wanted things other than typical band merchandise to sell at his gigs. The result, Nunu: handmade chocolate confections made from single origin Santander cocoa beans. While the line includes golden soft caramel butterflies and Earl Grey ganache flowers, it would appear that the chocolates best suited to show sales are the five chocolates infused with liquor. Mezcal and Absinthe are just two of the choices so get ready to show your ID for a wristband to delicious hangoverville.
August 13, 2010 | New Products | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
As a chef, I’m never without a pen to take notes with. How else will I be able to remind myself of my daily do’s and don’ts?! Now it seems I’ll be switching to pencil due to the instantaneous attraction I felt when coming across the Paper Pastries Chef Pencil Set. Read more
July 29, 2010 | New Food and Packaging | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
Invigorated by a recent European jaunt, I had the fortune of meeting Cristina Crotti, an Audrey Tautou look-a-like and owner-maker of artisanal, ‘tradizionale balsamico’. Founded by her family 40 years ago, il borgo del balsamico has created a cult following for itself by packaging its luscious, complex balsamicos in anarchistic fashion. Gone is the stuffy eighteenth century-style branding that by-and-large encompasses the packaging. Read more
July 27, 2010 | New Eco | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
There’s no better time than now to hit the park with a picnic and your sweetie. Time to dig in your closet and pull out your bulky, wicker basket. Or not. Instead, make a statement with a Boxsal and choose one of three eco-friendly cardboard picnic boxes from the design firm, The Brand Hatchery. Read more
July 27, 2010 | New Food and Packaging | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
It’s breakfast time! Ready to sit down to a plate of satisfying bacon and eggs flavoured Roe? Well, perhaps that’s what your palette can believe it’s doing when savoring California Cavier Company’s newest addition to their expanding line of infused caviar. Read more
June 25, 2010 | New Design | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
Coffee: an imperative element of my sanity (and probably yours too), even if a new study suggests that it’s simply sipped to curb nighttime withdrawals. So when in need of a jolt, why not drink from an aesthetically caffeinated bag of beans from the famed Minneapolis small-batch coffee roasters, Bull Run. Read more
June 7, 2010 | Cool Websites | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
A couple of weeks ago, Gerry Mak cooked us up an impressive posting on Recipe Look, a British Culinary Site dedicated to illustrated recipe instructions. Curbing my A.D.D. for five minutes, I soon found myself with the ingredients for ‘Eggplant with your favorite cheese’. Was Eggplant and Cheese a winning combination? Let’s just say, the charm lies in the drawing. Read more
June 3, 2010 | New Trends | by Eat. Sip. Chew. 
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Frolicking through the artist community known as Marfa, TX, I stumbled across the exquisite Pictorial Webster: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities, by master letterpress printer and artist, John M. Carrera. Sifting through more than 12,000 original engravings provided to him on loan, Carrera spent the next ten years constructing the book by painstakingly categorizing, restoring and selecting images from three 19th century Merriam-Webster dictionaries. Read more
May 26, 2010 | New Trends | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
Not since Bill Cosby’s Jello Pudding Pop heyday have popsicles witnessed such an exciting resurgence. So much, in fact, that the recent openings of popsicle-centric dessert bars is ensuring that 2010 will be crowned ‘The Year Of The Popsicle’. Time to pass the crown, Ice Cream Sandwich.” In Los Angeles, the recently launched PopCycle offers Farmer’s market flavors like Cucumber Lime, by way of their custom-built Flame Orange Bicycle. But it’s Pop Bar in New York City that has me saying: ‘I’ll take one of those … and that one, too … and what the hell, one of every flavor’. Pop Bar’s twenty-five flavors rotate daily and are represented in an artful De Stijl harmony. The Pudding Pop, it seems, has found a worthy companion.
Nineteen year-old self-taught Korean artist Minjae Lee creates the most luminous, eye-popping illustrations. They are intricate yet surprisingly accessible, the daring splashes of messily-applied colour accentuating the strong lines that characterize her portrait work in particular. Read more
As the average person become poorer, the world’s oligarchs are getting ever wealthier, which is why even in an unstable global economy, a Russian firm is plugging ahead with plans to build a space hotel. Read more
The Australian film collective behind the sci-fi spoof, The Time That Time Forgot, perfectly capture the look and feel of awkward, low-budget rip-offs from the ’70s — the psychedelic lighting, bad dubbing, and amazing hair. One almost wishes Italian Spiderman was for real. [more about Italian Spiderman]
A soviet-era monument in Bulgaria commemorating World War II armed forces was recently vandalized: the figures were all turned into pop and capitalist icons such as Ronald McDonald, Superman, Santa Claus, and Captain America.
The demise of our beloved print medium is a harsh reality that a lot of independent magazines have been dealing with for the past five years at least. So we all frequent a ton of different sites that we like and one in particular that’s really given itself a pick-me-up online, for the better good of longevity and legacy, is Planet magazine. Read more
Shortstack are a Washington DC band that not many people know about outside of the the city. They recently released an EP of covers with some sweet choices on there — The Kinks, Captain Beefheart, and The Pupils, among others. Once again a band takes different styles, sounds, and time periods, and owns it like an extra finger.
Listen to the Shortstack track, House On Fire.
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Shoes, art, shoes, art. Which will win in the ever-stimulating battle of wills in Kobi Levi’s creations. Though, as a Brooklyn resident, this one with gum as the heal is a just little too close to the truth. Read more
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The return of the Brionvega rr226
Italian brand Brionvega has resurrected the classy Radiofonografio piece first created in 1965. The updated version is just like the original turntable/radio unit, but also has a CD/DVD player.
Pencils made from recycled newspaper
The problem with awesome things like these pencils made out of recycled newspaper is that you almost don’t want to use them.
Matthew Dear’s Black City album totem
Our friends at Ghostly International are releasing Matthew Dear’s Black City album as a limited edition ‘totem’. A what? A totem – a limited edition metal bar used to access a private music chamber. Cool! Read more
Pitched as ‘Ulterior Motives in Contemporary Art’, Disorder Disorder is running until November 14 at Penrith Regional Gallery. It’ll be well worth the trip out west of Sydney: the Australian, Japanese, American and European cast reads like a warriors of street art roundup and includes Mike Giant, Ed Templeton, Anthony Lister [artwork above], Ozzie Wright, and Jonathan Zawada. Read more
Michelle Blade’s psychedelic artwork
Michelle Blade’s washed out paintings are deceptively simple, her washy acrylics creating psychedelic textures and conjuring ghostly figures from the past. Read more
This cool black unisex t shirt by UK label Client is made in England, printed in Berlin, and beautifully packaged in East Berlin cartonage, especially designed for Client. Read more
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