The William Stove Top.
Imagine a stove top with absolutely no wasted space. Anywhere you set a pot, that specific area would heat up to your desired temperature. Sound cool? Well, it actually exists. More about the William Stove Top after the jump.
Gastro Friday: Pissky-Diabetic Urine Turned into Fine, Single Malt Whisky
Photo from rsc.org
James Gilpin is a designer and researcher with type I diabetes who decided to start a project called Gilpin Family Whisky, where he processes the sugar-rich urine of elderly diabetes patients into high-end, single malt whisky.
Sound weird? More on pissky after the jump.
Gastro Friday: The Great American Salad Bar Project
The Great American Salad Bar Project with Chef Ann Cooper and Whole Foods!
I was first introduced to Chef Ann Cooper while working as a social media coordinator for The Healthy Schools Campaign, a great non profit committed to creating healthy school lunches in the country. I was helping promote the reauthorization of the childhood nutrition act in 2009, and Chef Ann contributed to our blogging project, sharing her opinions on healthy school lunches.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Chef Ann Cooper has paired up with Whole Foods to offer salad bars in 300 schools across the country. The goal is raise money for the salad bars through donations, which you can make here.
Gastro Friday: Meet the Koolickle
The Koolickle, from http://poeticfood.blogspot.com/2009/09/koolickle.html
Meet a newer tradition from the Mississippi delta, the koolickle. Essentially, it is a pickle soaked in Kool-Aid, and you can find the sweet and sour cucumbers in tiny convenience stores all around the state, and even in Texas and St. Louis.
More about the Koolickle after the jump.
Gastro Friday: Why Cookbooks are Crack by Tiesha Lewis
Why do we love cookbooks so much??
***Meet guest blogger Tiesha Lewis, a kick-ass woman getting her gastronomy degree at Boston University. Enjoy her writing–I know I do!************
It was the red velvet cake with cream cheese icing recipe that really hooked me on my latest cookbook crack: Martha Stewart’s Wedding Cakes with Wendy Kromer. As a matter of fact, that recipe is the reason why I’ve started using buttermilk in a lot of my cake recipes (it makes them super moist!).I checked the book out from the library so much, I eventually ordered it from Amazon (but still waiting for it…).
Gastro Friday- Picky Eating may be classified as an eating disorder for adults.
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Can you imagine eating only 10 foods for your entire life? For some, this sounds extreme, but for adult picky eaters, this is a reality of life. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, the diet of a picky adult eater can be so limited, that it actually disturbs social and professional relationships, which is a sign of a true disorder.
The article also reveals that a taskforce studying how to categorize eating disorders for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, due out in 2013, is considering recognizing for the first time a disorder to be called “selective eating” that could include adults instead of only children, like it has in the past.
More info on this after the jump.
Gastro Friday: What’s in Your Canning Cabinet? 2010 edition
The innards of my canning cabinet. And yes, the cans are totally organized into groups based on ingredients and recipe. I'm a food nerd.
About once a year, I like to ask, what is in your canning cabinet? This year, I’m really proud of mine. For the first time ever, I have room in my actual kitchen for my canned goods–two entire shelves, in fact!
More food porn and peeks inside my canning cabinet after the jump.
Gastro Friday: U.S. foods as ethnic foods?
Living in the U.S., it is difficult to imagine that people in other countries might consider what we eat “ethnic food”. But this video from Germany shows what the folks (and perhaps expats) in Berlin like to buy in their American food section.
Gastro Friday: Organizing a tiny kitchen
Welcome to my new, tiny-ass kitchen. I think there is room for a pot. That's about it.
What happens when your apartment and tiny kitchen cannot possibly fit all of your kitchen toys that you NEED to survive? You get creative.
The above photo is my new apartment kitchen. It is not big nor spacious, but the rest of the apartment is, so I had to deal. After doing some research, I found a great website that features innovative small kitchen organization, and specifically fell in love with this particular display.
Did we make this a reality? Or is my Le Creuset pot destined to eat my kitchen? Find out after the jump.
Gastro Friday: Food as Fashion
Linguine silver necklace. Photo from http://www.torontolife.com/daily/daily-dish/culinary-curiosities/2010/05/18/a-la-mode-re-purposed-food-becomes-the-stuff-of-fashion/attachment/a-matter-of-taste-8/
So we all know about food porn, but what about food as fashion porn? Italian photographer Fulvio Bonavia has repurposed food into handbags and other accessories in his book, A Matter of Taste. These fun and innovative photos really stretch the limit of what is food and what is fashion, from a sardine belt to a linguine and silver necklace.
More photos after the jump.
Gastro Friday: Dads that Cook
Did your dad cook while you were growing up?
My dad did. A lot. Even when he didn’t really know what it was he was supposed to be making…in honor of Father’s Day, I wanted share my memories of the first man I ever cooked with in the kitchen, my father.
Gastro Friday: Defining Candy
I recently read this great Salon article/ interview about defining what candy means in the U.S. It started off discussing how Washington is one of the latest states to decide to add a sin tax to any candy purchased within it’s borders. Of course, this meant Washington had to pin a fine point on what candy is defined as, and they chose “”a preparation of sugar, honey, or other natural or artificial sweeteners combined with chocolate, fruits, nuts, or other ingredients or flavorings and formed into bars, drops, or pieces.” That means if it has flour in it, it is considered a “food” and therefore not taxed.
