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Black Blood of the Earth: a month’s worth of caffeine in a 750ml bottle

Mike Brown Reader Find

By Mike Brown in New Food and Packaging on Tuesday 19 February 2013

Coffee and Beer meet mad science at Funranium Labs. Here you will find $350 beer steins that are worth every penny, and a groundbreaking product called Black Blood of the Earth, which contains a month’s worth of caffeine in each 750ml bottle. May your beer always stay cold and you never grow tired.

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Lily Vanilli’s Bakewell Tart: creative baked goods

The Urban Grocer Contributor

By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Tuesday 19 February 2013

Remember that anatomically-correct heart shaped cake? Well, Lily Vanilli strikes again! In this playful short, the queen of creative baking displays her visual artistry with an animated bakewell tart recipe. Word on the street is, she’s got a new book too.

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Longtable: dishes that mimic vinyl records

The Urban Grocer Contributor

By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Friday 8 February 2013

Wicka wicka! Bring out your inner DJ and set your (turn) table with these envy-inducing plates. Hailing from Italy, Longplate is a series of cleverly designed dishes that mimic vinyl records. Stylish illustrations are splashed across the plate’s center with sayings like Nice to Meat You and My Bloody Entrecote. Though the collection certainly eggs [...]

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House of Wine’s Wijnhuis: an initiative to help raise funds for the homeless

The Urban Grocer Contributor

By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Thursday 7 February 2013

Good wine in a good house for a good cause. From the creative mind of one Dutch wine expert and a group of local savvy designers comes Wijnhuis: a new initiative to help raise funds for the homeless. Color screen-printed labels adorne the bottles, which are tucked inside a die cut “house” made of old [...]

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Chocolates mixed with random edibles

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Monday 4 February 2013

Chocolate is just chocolate, right? Not when it comes to Chocomize, which makes customized chocolate bars that you can stuff a multitude of pretty random stuff in, like 23 karat gold flakes, mini pretzels, graham teddies, bacon bits and Monkey Munch. Yes, you can even have them stick a candle in it. Sadly, the wax isn’t edible.

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Eat your lover’s face as 3D chocolate heads

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Saturday 2 February 2013

Want to eat your lover’s face on Valentine’s day? Thought so. All right, just nip around to the Fab Cafe in Tokyo and place an order for these 3D chocolate moulds of your lover’s head now.

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Pärlans Konfektyr candy shop in Stockholm

The Urban Grocer Contributor

By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Wednesday 23 January 2013

Feeling nostalgic for Scandinavia circa 1930? Look no further than Pärlans Konfektyr: a vintage candy shop in Stockholm that hand makes its sweets within the setting of a superbly old-fashioned boutique.

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Siete Pasos wine from Rioja, Spain

The Urban Grocer Contributor

By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Thursday 17 January 2013

Vintage hats, over-sized sunglasses and bountiful beards. No, we’re not talking about your local hipster hangout but a new series of Spanish wine. Hailing from the great vineyard-laden Rioja, Siete Pasos is a just-launched wine project that aims to bring together seven wines from different regions. Each bottle will be assigned an individual character, inspired [...]

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Spoon-shaped nachos? Problem solved

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Thursday 17 January 2013

This is what we call great design: Spoonachos. If the spoon-shaped nachos concept by Serbia-based designer Denis Bostandzic ever makes its way to the market, it will mean the end of us wasting our perfectly good salsa and guacamole. It will mean our lack of motor skills will never get in the way of scooping dips with tortilla chips ever again. It will definitively change our lives.

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The Breslin: a gastro-pub in New York

The Urban Grocer Contributor

By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Saturday 12 January 2013

If swine makes you swoon and carnivore is your middle name, this nose-to-tail, gastro-pub is calling. At The Breslin, the interior is dark, the ceilings high, and the tables covered with butcher paper. Start your meal with the Scotch Egg – a whole egg wrapped in sausage, breaded, and fried.

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Underberg: a weird little bottle of bitters

The Retar Crew Reader Find

By The Retar Crew in New Food and Packaging on Friday 11 January 2013

We eat too much. And we drink way too much. That makes our livers sad. This weird little bottle of bitters makes them happy again. It brings you out of a food coma in about two minutes. Also, mixed with a splash of soda in the morning (or early afternoon) following a big night of [...]

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Black Betty: a cafe and coffee roastery in Christchurch

Elise Boyd Contributor

By Elise Boyd in New Food and Packaging on Friday 11 January 2013

If your daily trips to the local coffee shop are leaving you feeling a little flat and often wondering if the art of coffee making is truly dead, then take a pilgrimage to Black Betty in Christchurch for a caffeine fuelled enlightenment.

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Realistic raw turkey cake

Rebekah Rhoden Contributor

By Rebekah Rhoden in New Food and Packaging on Friday 4 January 2013

Eat Your Heat Out, Miss Cakehead’s curated grotesque food site, features this realistic raw turkey cake made by Sarah Hardy. Really though, who wouldn’t want to feast on one of these at Thanksgiving dinner?

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Vulcan Fire Salt

The Retar Crew Reader Find

By The Retar Crew in New Food and Packaging on Thursday 3 January 2013

This is simply the best condiment we have ever had. We put it on eggs, pizza, fish, anything. Even in our Bloody Marys. Seriously, we have never been this excited about a spice before. Get it.

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Pancakes made of win… we mean, Star Trek

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Thursday 3 January 2013

If you’ve ever thought about, erm, eating Spock’s face, these meticulous pancakey works by Saipancakes pancake artist Nathan Shield of characters from the original Star Trek series should get you dripping with as much excitement as you can get maple syrup on your plate.

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