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How do you invent a dish like the Donut Zinger, which combines sriracha, chicken, marshmallows and peanut butter into something that’s quite… indescribably epic? Well, you challenge the chef. The odd dish was concocted when Bjorn Shen, the owner and chef of Artichoke Cafe & Bar, decided he needed some culinary simulation and got people [...]
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Know what rocked Freddie Mercury’s palate back in the days? According to his then personal assistant Peter Freestone, chicken dhansak ranked among the top of his nom charts. Even bigger bonus: the recipe for the Indian dish is now available online, including the exact cooking instructions.
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New Zealand-based Bloomsberry carries a range of chocolate bars with witty packaging that anyone with any sort of problem would be glad to accept as a gift. There’s Bochox, for example, a 70% dark chocolate to address these pesky age-related wrinkles; the Marital Bliss chocolate that proclaims to be ’50% his 50% hers” but is [...]
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I used to work at a place that combined chocolate and bacon together in a dessert. Most customers I tried selling it to were usually disgusted, but there were the brave few who would give it a try. And thing this is, they almost always loved it. There’s just something delicious about sweet and savory combined together.
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Remember geography class, where you learnt about Earth’s interior and how it comprises four distinct concentric layers? When Melbourne-based baking enthusiast Rhiannon’s sister — who needed to teach this to a bunch of primary school kids in class — approached her with a brilliant idea to bake an actual cake of Earth that can be [...]
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We’ve been going on and on about 3D-printing, but we still didn’t see this coming: yes, of all things, a 3D food printer. Er, why not just eat food? Mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor, who designed the printer, sees a future in printing out customized meals to help us all address nutrient deficiencies unique to us, and also minimalize food waste since the food cartridges used to print these layers of sugars, complex carbohydrates, protein or others can last up to 30 years.
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As if hot sauces aren’t quite spicy enough. DoubleKick Caffeinated Hot Sauce, which we found on ThinkGeek, purports to combine the best of Asian and Southwestern chili sauces before leveling up with ginger and caffeine. How much caffeine does it have really? Well, every serving of 1 tsp serves up 12 mg. Of course, there’s [...]
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If you don’t know about Verve Coffee Roasters of Santa Cruz, CA, you should look them up. I was originally attracted to them based on their storefront appearance. Verve are at the forefront of the boutique coffee trend, and for good reason. They roast and make incredible coffee grown by farmers using sustainable farming practices. [...]
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Piranhas are some of the most vicious little creatures in the animal kingdom. They may be small, but we shiver at the idea of swimming in the Amazon River and feeling one nibble on our toes. The killer fish can strip something as big as a cow to its bones in a matter of minutes. But now [...]
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Rothko is a São Paulo restaurant inspired by the paintings of Mark Rothko and the passion for gastronomy of Diego Belda. From the rock clubs he owned, Casa Belfiore and CBBAR, to a unique restaurant in the heart of São Paulo’s nightlife, Belda is also a painter but in parallel discovered the world of gastronomy [...]
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Thanks to the always excellent Brain Pickings by Maria Popova, we’ve just discovered the edible modern art-inspired desserts of Caitlin Freeman. The Mondrian cake is incredibly fetching.
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Check out this neat edible spoon by green developmental partner Triangle Tree. It’s 100% natural made entirely of corn and organic products, replacing the need to use non-biodegradable plastic spoons. Not only can you eat a variety of meals with the spoon, but can eat it once you’re done. It’s also available in plain, spicy [...]
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What a pairing. The ChocolatRouge range of wines, which mixes up chocolate and red wine in varying levels of sweetness (Dark Red, Sweet Red and Milk Chocolate), infiltrated our consciousness recently and we haven’t stopped fantasizing about it since. Baileys addicts now have an alternative.
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Until recently I didn’t realize you could become a loyalist to your barista. If you’ve discovered one good coffee roaster, where’s the need to discover another, right? Wrong. I now know what it feels like to “cheat” on your barista. Corduroy is much more than your typical hole-in-the-wall espresso joint. Nestled on Foster street in [...]
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Tate & Lyle Sugars has opened the world’s first hotel using entirely cake as its building material. Fittingly called Tasting House and curated by Miss Cakehead, 14 cake artists took over 2,000 hours to bake and 900 hours to decorate the three-storey edible hotel. In the eight tasting rooms you’ll find “vanilla sponge cushions, windows [...]
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