11.24.2009

DIVERS, bouquets to eat alive

Besides being healthy and tasty, vegetables are beautiful plants. But we don’t notice this attractive side anymore. Most of us think of them as being time taking side dishes. But they are one of the most important parts of our menu. Fresh vegetables and herbs give us endless possibilities to combine. And the seasons apply us naturally with the best variation you can get.
by Janina Loeve

11.18.2009

La reinvenzione del cibo

La reinvenzione del cibo. Culture del gusto fra tradizione e globalizzazione ai piedi delle Alpi
di Cristina Grasseni, Verona, Qui Edit, 2007

11.11.2009

Waste by Tristram Stuart

With shortages, volatile prices, environmental disasters and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem - or thinks it does. Combining front-line investigation with startling new data, Waste shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis - and what we can do to fix it.

Philips’ Biosphere home farming

Home Farming explores growing at least part of your daily calorific requirement inside your house. This biosphere home farm has been designed to occupy a minimum of floor space and instead to stack the various mini-ecosystems on top of each other. It contains fish, crustaceans, algae and edible plants, all interdependent and in balance with each other. Water filtration, recycling of nutrients and optimum use of sunlight are all central to its appeal.

Dejection-moulding by Manuel Jouvin

French designer Manuel Jouvin has created packaging for cooked snails made of dyed snail excrement.

10.07.2008

Vegetable Orchestra

The Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetabile sound universe. The ensemble overcomes preserved and marinated sound conceptions or tirelessly re-stewed listening habits, putting its focus on expanding the variety of vegetable instruments, developing novel musical ideas and exploring fresh vegetable sound gardens.

La piastrella è servita

Food design 2008

9.28.2008

milkmaps

Latte crudo: elenco e mappa dei distributori automatici in Italia.

Eco Point Crai - La spesa senza sprechi

Con Eco Point, Crai propone oggi un nuovo modo di fare la spesa nell’intenzione di avvicinarsi alla crescente sensibilità del pubblico alle tematiche ambientali.

Vicino all’idea della più antica bottega dello speziale ma in realtà basato su materiali di avanguardia e altamente innovativi, la novità di Eco Point consiste nella possibilità di acquistare sfusi, direttamente da pratici dispenser, prodotti della spesa quotidiana che ad oggi esistono solo confezionati: pasta, riso, cereali, legumi, frutta secca, caffè, spezie, caramelle, fino anche i detersivi liquidi nelle aree Eco Goccia.

9.17.2008

VOICI LE CATALOGUE

À l’initiative de Francis Chevrier, dirécteur de l'IEHCA, l'Institut européen d'histoire e des cultures de l'alimentation, des universitaires et des chercheurs lancent un appel à Nicolas Sarkozy pour la mise en place d’un inventaire des pratiques, traditions alimentaires et culinaires de l’Union européenne. Le patrimoine alimentaire du continent entier dans un catalogue scientifiquement menée? http://www.iehca.eu/home.html http://www.iehca.eu/docs/pj_site/Publications/food_history/sommaire_vol_2_2003_1.pdf http://www.lastampa.it/redazione/cmsSezioni/societa/200809articoli/36506girata.asp

9.09.2008

Evoluzione delle tipologie costruttive degli antichi caseifici del Parmigiano-Reggiano

Tokyo Food Page

Alimentarium - Musée de l'alimentation

Gene Worlds_Focus on Food

The Potato Museum

The FOOD Museum

Animation for supply-chain operation in beverage industry

9.07.2008

Food wars

Atlas of Food

What a City Could Taste Like

Global Tastes

The way we eat: why our food choices matter

A thought-provoking look at how what we eat profoundly affects all living things, and how we can make more ethical food choices.
Five Principles for Making Conscientious Food Choices
1. Transparency: We have the right to know how our food is produced.
2. Fairness: Producing food should not impose costs on others.
3. Humanity: Inflicting unnecessary suffering on animals is wrong.
4. Social Responsibility: Workers are entitled to decent wages and working conditions.
5. Needs: Preserving life and health justifies more than other desires.
A critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it’s produced, and whether it was raised humanely and the impact our food choices have on humans, animals, and the environment. The authors examine the eating habits of three American families with very different diets. They track down the sources of each family’s food to probe the ethical issues involved in its production and marketing. What kinds of meat are most humane to eat?
Is "organic" always better? Wild fish or farmed?