New Food and Packaging
New Food and Packaging / Sooshi
November 4, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Caitlin Zaino |
Not a fan of sushi? Then check out Sooshi — a new sushi-style treat from New Zealand Natural ice cream. Though it may look a lot like your neighborhood rainbow roll, these sweet snacks are made purely of real fruit and ice cream. Instead of the outside ‘nori’ sheet, Sooshi sports a green apple flavored strip. Rice is replaced with vanilla or fruit ice cream, and rather than vegetables, the center’s filled with lemon, apricot, raspberry, or blackcurrant fruit puree. Though word on the street is that it’s already super sugary, those with a real sweet tooth can top it off with a squirt of chocolate ‘soy sauce’. So next time you’re out for a sushi dinner, consider skipping the California roll and heading straight to dessert.
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New Food and Packaging / Bompas and Parr’s architectural jelly art
November 2, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Zolton |
Bompas and Parr sure give San Francisco jelly artist Liz Hickok a run for her money with their elaborate creations which use vibrantly colored gelatin to ‘explore that space between food and architecture’. Tasty. Read more
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New Food and Packaging / Michel Bras’ Aubrac restaurant
October 29, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Caitlin Zaino |
Michel Bras is one of the world’s best chefs and his renowned restaurant in the Aubrac region of France continues to top must-visit lists for any gastronome. The food is stellar – unreal even – drawing heavily on Bras’ obsession with the region and the local, humble ingredients it produces. Read more
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New Food and Packaging / Foodie felt art
October 26, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Zolton |
Yum, yum, These foodie artworks by Go Buggy are made with ‘two hands, and my two trusted sewing machines, Ethel and Ruby’. Hmmm, I could do with a serving of the gyoza right about now. Read more
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New Food and Packaging / Green Berry Tea
October 23, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Caitlin Zaino |
Check out these brilliant origami-inspired Green Berry Tea bags from Russian-based designer Natalia Ponomareva. While the tea seeps, the bag gradually expands into a poetic and delicate paper crane. The design hasn’t made it to store shelves yet but the concept is so impressive that it deserves sharing.
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New Food and Packaging / Eat The Art
October 23, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Caitlin Zaino |
If you’ve ever known the mouth-watering appeal of well photographed food, then the Eat the Art exhibition now on in Boston may be the place for you. This lip-smacking exhibit brings together a smorgasbord of food as art themed pieces from more than forty-two artists. Using various media, artists showcase everything from a miniature cocktail dress made out of the skins of clementines to flowers made of jelly beans. One of the highlights includes several of Andy Warhol’s iconic food-themed pieces. Eat the Art is on now until the month’s end. Read more
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New Food and Packaging / Beast, Portland, Oregon
October 21, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Caitlin Zaino |
Like its name, Beast is straightforward and simple. This Portland-based restaurant offers up prix-fixe six-course menus of uncomplicated yet refined dishes. Each week the cuisine changes according to apparent inspiration from the fields, forests, and moods of the owner and her culinary team. Foie gras bons bons may share the menu with pork, pork liver, and sour cherry pate. Read more
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New Food and Packaging / Laser beam food art
October 19, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by The Uncool Hunter |
The figurative food art movement comes from sculptors and catering companies. But there is no doubt that this trade becomes professional when the artists start to use laser beams in order to modify the food. On this occasion, watermelons, onto which different figures such as tango dancers, the portrait of Van Gogh, a Chinese Turtle, or a bouquet of roses, can be superimposed. Read more
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New Food and Packaging / High Vale Orchard
October 13, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Caitlin Zaino |
Sitting on the foothills of Perth in Western Australia is High Vale Orchard, an epicenter for biodynamic apples and fruity delights. A frontrunner in sustainable farming, here, certified organic, locally grown, and locally sourced produce is turned into deliciously natural ciders, juices, and preserves. The purity of the product is reflected in the clean, simple, and sophisticated labels branded against the clear bottles — the cider in particular. High Vale’s scrumptious goods are available in fine bottle shops around Australia or, better yet, at their cellar door.
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New Food and Packaging / Chocolate Research Facility
October 12, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Caitlin Zaino |
What do you get when the head of a creative agency obsessed with chocolate, conceptualizes, designs, and opens his very own chocolate boutique-cum-cafe? In the case of Singapore’s Chocolate Research Facility, the answer is an exotic wonderland of dripping chocolate from the walls, tables resembling chunks of chocolate, and a plethora of chic, stylish stacks of eclectically packaged bars. Designed by Chris Lee and his Singaporean-based design firm, Asylum, the Chocolate Research Facility is an inspired shop with over 100 flavors of tasty chocolate from honey melon and cassis to longan and pumpkin seeds. The fun packaging is full of quirky subtleties too, like identifiable clues that hint at flavors, such as a blurry photograph to suggest alcohol content. Together, the creativity of the concept, combined with scrumptious chocolate dolled up in clever packaging, is not only generating a lot of adrenalin-filled chocolate buzz in Singapore, but around the world, too.
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New Food and Packaging / Dada Wine
October 8, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Caitlin Zaino |
When two exceptional New Zealand-based wine makers — one Kiwi, one French — set out to free themselves of professional conventions and pair up for a personal project, the result was an unexpected, artisanal creation: Dada Wine. Reflecting famous artistic and literary movements based on irrationality and the negation of traditional values, Dada Wine echoes the obsessive attitude of the winemakers and the wine itself. Read more
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New Food and Packaging / Creative cupcake design
October 8, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Zolton 
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Yum, yum, cupcakes are fun. These creations are so clever, so arty, so damn bizarre that it would almost be a shame to eat them. Almost! Read more
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New Food and Packaging / Lola’s Kitchen cupcakes
October 5, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Caitlin Zaino |
Cupcakes are to urban eating today what sundried tomatoes and pesto were in the 80s. The fad took over in leaps and bounds a few years back and it remains a steadfast part of any stylish city dwellers diet. Perfect then that Lola’s Kitchen in London not only delivers soft, fluffy, just out of the oven cupcakes, but they do so in chic packaging that oozes as much style as their icing does sweet indulgence. Read more
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New Food and Packaging / Fondue at Geneva’s Buvette des Bains
October 3, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Caitlin Zaino |
In Geneva, Switzerland, where the weather is just beginning to hint at cold, the time for indulging in hearty fondues is around the corner. And for a real authentic fondue experience, bypass the fake chalet-type restaurants and head straight for the Buvette des Bains. Set on a pier in the middle of Lake Geneva, this summer beach hotspot is transformed into a local fondue-eating institution during the chillier months. Here, rowdy locals pack long communal tables, next to wood burning stoves, where the very pungent aroma of melted cheese pierces the senses. Read more
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New Food and Packaging / West Eleven Cocktails
October 1, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Caitlin Zaino |
If your only memories of drinking cocktails are limited to shoddy parties full of Sex on the Beach, then it’s time to revisit the cocktail experience. Enter West Eleven. Touted as a grown-up, more refined, sophisticated version of the sometimes less than elegant cocktail drink, West Eleven packs high-quality, fresh, authentic ingredients to produce tantalizing flavors like Passionfruit Mai Tai and Blueberry Bramble. London mixologist Ben Reed was brought on board to dream up the tasty concoctions, with their tantalizing aromas and rich taste. West Eleven’s quality is reflected in its design too, which boasts a handmade feel that echoes the authenticity of the product itself. Better yet is its simple functionality: just chill, pour over heaps of ice, and enjoy.
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Hawaiian surfer-photographer Clark Little takes some pretty stunning photos of the waves he loves to ride. He actually shoots from inside the wave, giving laymen a glimpse at the beauty that keeps people like him hooked on the sport. Read more
‘I have been trying to go with my whims. Fuck it, let’s make an iPod album’. This statement from Team Genius leader Drew Hermiller was the jumping off point in the creation of the band’s debut self-titled full-length album, one of the most interesting and eclectic pop records of the year. ‘Basically it’s a reaction to the modern way music is consumed and listened to’, Hermiller says. ‘The idea of an album with a focused sound and a complete statement kind of gets lost now-a-days. Everyone shuffles around, so I thought “why not write an album that does the same thing?” Luckily, the band did an awesome job of keeping up with it’. Download a couple of free tracks off the album in our Music Download section [pssst, it's in the third column of the site]
Joe Coleman’s paintings are a feverish cross between Ivan Albright-inspired grotesqueness and R. Crumb-like pop-social critique. Read more
The Dutch, the beautiful Dutch, in terms of architecture anyway. Here they have led the way again with this reuse of an old crane dock. A new glass office building, with a climatic façade of double glazing, motorized louvers on the outside and full length windows on the inside, hovers above the old dock. Read more
Comedy troupe Summer of Tears edited itself into the classic ’80s movie Teen Wolf, starring Michael J. Fox, providing a new and gut-bustingly hilarious side-plot.
Made from 100 percent organic cotton and eco-friendly, this super soft tee celebrates a sinister world of kaleidoscopic colours and ripples of psychedelia, of serenading Queens, of dancing flamingos, of unimaginable euphoria. It’s all the work of Sydney label, Das Monk and it’s available through the Lost At E Minor online store for just US$40. Now, there’s one hell of a Christmas present, even if we do say so ourselves!
Rack is a quarterly bilingual magazine, published in English and Chinese, and geared towards Asian influenced global youth culture. Read more
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Our celebrity-saturated culture makes many of us irrationally hateful of the faces we see on our TV screens and magazine pages. Good thing there’s Celebrity PunchOut to let off some of that steam.
1970s and 80s Soviet Union buildings
Cambodian born photographer Frederic Chaubin is the editor of French magazine Citizen K. His photo series on bizarre buildings built in the former Soviet Union during the 1970s and 80s is absolutely fascinating. Read more
I live the upbeat, feel good tempo of the new single — A Hundred Hearts — from Philly group, The Swimmers. Off their latest album, People Are Soft, this song is a strangely fitting anthem for the blustery day outside.
There is not a medium that UK illustrator Lizzy Stewart cannot wrap around her little finger to make the most beautiful, whimsical images. Read more
Wolfmother. Rock n roll. Mystical lyrics. Heavy riffs. They have a new album out, Cosmic Egg, and we have five copies to giveaway, along with their debut album. To enter, tell us your favorite Wolfmother song and the city you live in. Yo! Two fingered salute. Read more
Made from 100 percent organic cotton and eco-friendly, this super soft tee celebrates a sinister world of kaleidoscopic colours and ripples of psychedelia, of serenading Queens, of dancing flamingos, of unimaginable euphoria. It’s all the work of Sydney label, Das Monk and it’s available through the Lost At E Minor online store for just US$40. Now, there’s one hell of a Christmas present, even if we do say so ourselves! Read more
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