Tokyo Food Page

Tokyo Food Page / Bento.com is a complete guide to Japanese cuisine and eating in Japan. With great recipes, tours of Japanese markets, and tips on the best places to eat in Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe.

assembling a molecular architecture

Constructible and mobile food architecture by Adrian Blackwell

mcdonald's sundial

The Architect, the Cook and Good Taste

Since time immemorial, cooking and building have been among humanity’s most basic occupations. Both of them are rooted in necessity, but both of them also possess a cultural as well as a sensory, aesthetic dimension. And while it is true that cooking is a transitory art form, it gives expression to the periods of human cultural history just as architecture does. Moreover, both arts accord a central role to the materials employed. Both involve measuring and proportioning, shaping and designing, assembling and composing.

By Petra Hagen Hodgson, Rolf Toyka

Viaggio fotografico al ristorante El Bulli

Ultima cena della stagione 2007 di “El Bulli”, il ristorante più famoso del mondo di Ferran Adrià, aperto soltanto sei mesi l’anno.

Flow food city

Design for a floating exhibition installation, Galerie op de Rotte 2005 by Van Bergen Kolpa Architecten

Paesaggi, tipicità e massaggi: funziona

Un ristorante con tanto di hotel, spa e hamman nel profondo delle Langhe. Cascina Langa, un'idea coraggiosa ma premiata, grazie a elaborati menu e ai percorsi salutari personalizzati.

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An ethnography of a neighbourhood café: informality, table arrangements and background noise

Cafés are places where we are not simply served hot beverages but are also in some way partaking of a specific form of public life.

Ile flottante

Half-submerged guests dined around an Ile flottante

by Doug Fitch and Mimi Oka (aka Orphic Feasts)

NY flavors

Ice cream stand installation mapping the tastes and smells from NYC's different tribes into a comestible frozen liquid.

by Miwa Koizumi

The Starving Artists' Cookbook

by Paul Lamarre and Melissa P. Wolf (aka EIDIA) is a verité video and book project consisting of short segments documenting many artists cooking in their everyday contexts (1986-1991).

Food + Architecture

Much of the built world is designed around food; for storing, producing, transporting, selling, serving and eating.

by Karen A. Franck

The Global Food Crisis: What You Need to Know

Il cibo dei poveri

L'aumento del prezzo del cibo è in parte causato da problemi temporanei che presto o tardi verranno risolti", scrive Amartya Sen sul New York Times. "Ma alla base ci sono questioni più gravi, primo fra tutti la distribuzione asimmetrica delle ricchezze. Gran parte della discussione sulla povertà nel mondo oppone coloro che hanno i soldi a quelli che non possiedono quasi nulla. Ma in realtà anche tra i poveri ci sono grandi differenze: tra quelli che vivono in paesi a forte e rapida crescita economica e gli altri". Coabitare con una parte della popolazione che si è arricchita rapidamente è problematico. "Di solito i più ricchi acquistano molti prodotti alimentari facendo lievitare così la domanda e il prezzo a scapito dei poveri". Sen conclude: "Abbiamo bisogno di politiche economiche che partano da una corretta analisi del problema e intervengano sulle disparità verticali della globalizzazione".

The Top 10 Creepiest Fast Food Mascots

I don't eat much fast food anymore. Maybe it's because I read Fast Food Nation a few years back and that scared me off the chalupas and whoppers. Or it could be because the doctor told me to watch my fat intake and ease off the fried foods. When I really think about it though, those excuses are kinda lame. I think that the real reason I don't eat fast food is because fast food restaurants are doing their damndest to scare us away from their restaurants. I mean look at the weirdos they have peddling their food. Scary clowns? Creepy old men? Purple blobs? The fast food companies been subjecting us to these creeps for years, but recently the situation has become unbearable. So without further ado, I present to you my list of the 10 creepiest fast food mascots [note: I'm limiting the list to characters peddling goods for fast food outlets - I realize that the Kool Aid Man and Count Chocula are also disturbing, but that's for another list]:

Dining alone? Call up a guest on screen

Technology has come up with the answer for people living along who dislike solitary meals: the virtual family dinner, where relatives hundreds of miles apart get together for a chat.

The New Science of Eating

Have a few hundred harried lunches wolfing down a burrito while answering email made you a little chubby? Brian Wansink has some advice for you, and it's not trading the burrito for a salad. Just stop emailing while you eat.