(thanks/via: automatism: Simple Pleasures)
Ramen Party Music Video (by Ramen Party)
Kids+Video+Music+Ramen
Here’s a video for new recruits to the cult of ramen who are still having trouble telling their tamago from their naruto. In this handy primer, the genial Mr. Ramen gets a gang of ingredients together—including Mr. Chashu (that’s barbecue pork) and Mr. Negi (green onion)—for a dip in a hot bowl of broth that’s inexplicably set out in the middle of a street. The clip is actually an adorable trailer for an Indiegogo campaign from a group of Torontonians who are, no kidding, hoping to produce an instructional app for pre-schoolers called Ramen Party, along with a companion e-book series. They’ve already raised nearly half of their $20,000 goal. After finding ourselves playing this catchy video on repeat, we can see why. [Indiegogo]
(thanks/via: Toronto Life)
The Food Genius app combines food, restuarants and statistics. Read more: Crunching Numbers on Acqtaste.
(thanks/via: Acqtaste)
Damien Chivialle has created an urban farm unit for agricultural use in city environments.
With the pollution and limited amount of space in major cities, it can be difficult to grow fresh, local produce. The unit, which is made out of a shipping container with a greenhouse roof addition, allows food to be farmed anywhere. The units use the aquaponics method in which fish feces are broken down in a sewage tank, then turned into fertilizer for the plants, which the plants then filter back into the water. In the past two years, three of Chivialle’s urban farm units have been built in Zurich, Berlin, and Brussels and we are hoping to see even more.
(thanks/via: Acqtaste a new food culture and lifestyle magazine)
News reporting from the Daiy Show about Canada’s maple syrup industry:
Jason Jones reports on The Canadian Maple Syrup Syndicate http://on.cc.com/ZR6Xpx
Easier than smoking your syrup, add it to milk, right?
(thanks/via: thedailyshow)
Communal Table: Fresh Pasta (by handsdown)
Making pasta video from David Kilpatrick and Leela Cyd Ross (daughter of Richard). It is lots of fun to explore Leela’s Made in Portland features and I love her travel photographs.
The 14 best chocolates in America:
{ 1, 7 } Xocolatl de David; Portland, OR
{ 2, 4 } Cacao Atlanta Chocolate Co.; Atlanta
{ 3 } Eclat Chocolate; West Chester, PA
{ 5, 8 } Askinosie; Springfield, MO
{ 6, 11, 14 } Ococoa; Los Angeles
{ 9, 13 } Nunu Chocolates; Brooklyn, NY
{ 10 } Cocanu; Portland, OR
{ 12 } Cacao Prieto; Brooklyn, NY
(shot by Stephen Lewis)
See? Portland rocks even in the field of chocolate.
densely filled ice cream cake created by London designers Doshi Levien for Häagen-Dazs.
Hungry now?
(thanks/via: Dezeen)
Ya wouldn’t throw this away when you moved would you?
(thanks/via: BaconSalt.com (aka: The Everything Should Taste Like Bacon Store)
World’s first chocolate printer (by EPSRCvideo)
I’m completely facinated with 3-D printing.
(thanks/via: NPR)
People around the world really love In-N-Out.
The west coast “better burger” chain has been on a tour of Asia, putting up pop-up stores in Tokyo, Shanghai and more.
Its latest pop-up store was in Singapore, and it sold out in just five minutes (more…)
(thanks/via: BusinessInsider)
Chocolate Mill by Wieki Somers at the Vitra Design Museum
Totally awesome but I’m concerned about who gets to eat the chocolate?
(thanks/via Dezeen)
A drink formulated by NASA scientists to protect astronauts from the sun’s radiation could become a hot-selling, age-defying beauty product. New research suggests that AS10, or “space drink,” can noticeably reduce facial wrinkles and obvious signs of aging in as little as four months. Here’s what you need to know about the bottled up fountain of youth:
What’s in the ‘space drink’?
It’s made from a blend of exotic fruits and other plant derivatives, including Brazil’s cupuacu fruit, acai, prickly pear, yumberry, acerola, grape, green tea, and pomegranate. In addition to a rich cocktail of vitamins and antioxidants, the juice blend supplies a high dose of phytochemicals, which,according to researchers, helps shield cells from the harmful effects of radiation.What happened to those who drank it?
A team of researchers from the University of Utah had nearly 200 participants, mostly women, drink two ounces of the stuff a day. After four months, dermatologists examined visa photographs — which use different light exposures to reveal the condition of the skin below the surface — taken before and after the experiment. They were wowed by the drink’s “dramatic effects” on the face, including a 30 percent reduction of UV spots (dark blemishes), and a 17 percent reduction in the amount of wrinkles.
Quick! Gotta Get Over To Berkeley!!
