What is Goodness Pop-up ? It’s a four-day pop-up restaurant featuring a different chef each day – “It’s Health and good taste for all. Providing fresh, healthy and delicious food to a wide audience, while showcasing regionally sourced seasonal cuisine created by local culinary talents.” During the four days, from 11pm to 3pm, the pop-up will feature 4 top chefs, including (...) Read More about Goodness Pop-Up Restaurant During NY Fashion Week (153 words)

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Artist Brittany Powell from Low-Commitment Projects made fun sandwich tributes to artists like Piet Mondrian, Christo, Jasper Johns and Damien Hirst amongst others. Reminds me a little bit of Viennas Mumok’s Art placemats.(...) Read More about Sandwich Artist by Low Commitment Projects (9 words)

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It’s not the first time we introduce you to the German creative studio Korefe with Food Finish and Stop the Water products. Always with a particular attention to packaging, the SLOW FAST FOOD is fast food that’s nevertheless healthy. Seasonally and traditionally cultivated fruit and(...) Read More about Slow Fast Food by Korefe (41 words)

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With the latest book from Victionary, EAT ME: Appetite for Design, eating is no longer a pure experience of smell and taste but rather an effective agency to communicate and engage, an indication of cultural values, lifestyle, artisanship, criticism, aspirations and imagination this present day. While no single aspect of food and (...) Read More about Eat Me: Appetite for Design (120 words)

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‘Sweet Play’ is a new kind of chocolate which is, thanks to three special elements, compatible with your taste. It is the graduation work of French designer Elsa Lambinet (who partnered with Blondel, the famous Swiss chocolate maker) and is based on modular design, allowing you to create three different types of chocolate with (...) Read More about Sweet Play by Elsa Lambinet (56 words)

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The cookbooks of all cookbooks. The Modernist Cuisine book set will blow your mind on so many levels. “Just as French Impressionists upended cen­turies of tra­di­tion, Modernist cui­sine has in recent years blown through the bound­aries of the culi­nary arts. Borrowing tech­niques from the lab­o­ra­tory, pio­neer­ing chefs at world-renowned restau­rants such as (...) Read More about The Modernists Cuisine : The Art and Science of Cooking (108 words)

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Famous in France, Japan and the United States, the man that Vogue called “the Picasso of Pastry” revolutionized pastry-making with regard to taste and modernity. With “pleasure as his only guide”, Pierre Hermé has invented a totally original world of tastes, sensations and pleasures.

Towards the end of 1996, Pierre Hermé left Fauchon to start Pierre Hermé Paris® with Charles Znaty. Their first shop opened in Tokyo in 1998, followed by a Salon de Thé in July 2000. In 2001, Pierre Hermé returned to the gourmet scene in Paris. Immediately, the pastry shop at 72 rue Bonaparte in the Saint Germain des Prés area scored a big success. Every day,(...) Read More about The Picasso of Pastry: Pierre Hermé (1,070 words)

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While surfing on the Hermès Facebook page, I discovered this very cool project they did to market their latest version of the the Kelly Bag: The Kelly Picnic. They used common picnic ingredients to recreate the iconic shape of the bag. A very cool concept, with unfortunately no credits for food stylist nor photographer. See them all below.
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Since 1987, Dutch Photo-realistic artist Tjalf Sparnaay has been working on his imposing oeuvre, constantly seeking new images that have never been painted before (mostly painting food). What he calls Megarealism is part of the contemporary global art movement of Hyperrealism, and with prices of  original oil paintings between 10.000 and 45.000 €, Sparnaay is now(...) Read More about Tjalf Sparnaay Photorealistic Food Paintings (76 words)

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