Our weekly roundup on tasty news from around the world and here’s what we are reading on…
ART & CRAFT
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Clever concepts and eccentric still life scenes… Still Life Food Art by Sonia Rentsch | Trendland: Design Blog & Trend Magazine
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A playful creepy set of antique-style china exquisitely painted, looks like it’s being invaded by an army of ants… Hand-Painted Ants by Evelyn Bracklow | DeMilked
TRENDYSSIMO
The ‘superfoods’ we can expect to see gracing menus, supermarkets, health food stores and dinner tables… The superfoods set to be the flavour of 2014 | smh.com.au
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Cofounder of Noma and self-proclaimed champion of new Nordic cuisine expands his culinary domain in Copenhagen… Claus Meyer’s Food Empire | WSJ.com
Chefs nationwide are topping traditional restaurant fare with their new favorite ingredient… No. 1 food trend for restaurants in 2014: Eggs | Appetizers Blog – The Sacramento Bee
HEALTHY
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Gli scaffali delle farmacie e dei supermercati ne sono pieni: ma i latti per la prima infanzia, servono davvero al benessere dei più piccoli? No… Il latte di accrescimento serve davvero? | Benessere – D – la Repubblica
TIME TRAVEL
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It’s possible to let passengers board trains through separate cars that latch on, but who will take the risk to make it happen? This High-Speed Train Picks Up Passengers Without Having to Stop | Innovations – blogs.smithsonianmag.com
When life is stripped down to man versus the most brutal elements, bring plenty of snacks… Think You’re Cold And Hungry? Try Eating In Antarctica | The Salt : NPR
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.” ~Horace
Delightfully yours,
Orsola Ciriello Kogan @ Food Meditations
Our weekly roundup on tasty news from around the world and here’s what we are reading on…
TAKEN BY FOOD n DESIGN
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A video created as a response to the latest United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization proposal promoting Entamophagy… Eating Insects and Food Security? A Cautionary Tale by Vidhi Goel | Products of Design
Can a vibrating fork really help you lose weight? HAPIfork Review: Digital Utensil Tracks and Sets a User’s Eating Pace | WSJ.com
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Novato art gallery’s main dish is food. Super Fresh, opened in April 2012, is a unique art gallery that focuses on work exploring contemporary food culture… | SFGate
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La storia di un mondo fatto di pasta, zucchero ed emozioni… Let It Dough! | PICAME
ONCE UPON A TIME
From Per Se to Shake Shack, new paths to innovative dining in New York City… 2004, the Year That Changed How We Dine | NYTimes.com
BIG BIZ
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Is this new product a well-meaning attempt to help slim down waistlines, however, or a sign of ongoing trouble for the soda industry? Coke Is Introducing A New Product. Will It Help Revive The Soda Industry? | Food Republic
HEALTHY NOTES
Harley Pasternak: 6 Superfoods to Kick-Start Your New Year. Healthy Foods for New Year’s Resolutions… | greatideas.people.com
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Perfect children, perfect vacations, perfect meals — it’s enough to make a follower gaze with longing… The Agony of Instagram | NYTimes.com
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ~Ansel Adams
Delightfully yours,
Orsola Ciriello Kogan @ Food Meditations
Our weekly roundup on tasty news from around the world and here’s what we are reading on…
Food Writers and Experts on the Untold Stories of 2013, an ongoing series of year-end surveys, industry experts, seasoned diners, and friends of the site address the untold stories of 2013… | eater.com
FOOD TRENDS
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Chef holograms and tattooed fruit: The future of food? It’s not just purely purchasing that’s changing, also production and food technology is developing rapidly, alongside packaging, branding… BBC Food
In order to stay on top of everything that’s going on in the delicious realm of gastronomy… Top Chefs On 2014 Food Trends | Forbes
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Ready for a blowout: Blasting a duck with the dryer before roasting dehydrates the flesh so the skin gets firm, crispy… Hair Dryer Cooking: From S’mores To Crispy Duck | The Salt : NPR
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Food and Drink Trends for 2014, [and The Rise of Posh Chicken]… | finedininglovers.com
It’s hard to predict what will come next — food trends come and go like pop songs — experts seem to agree that 2014 could be a terrifying year for disgusting food trends | The Week
HEALTHY NOTES
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When it comes to working out, millennials are experts… Work Off Holiday Weight Gain Without Dieting | mashable.com
To those on allergy-free diets: A larger number of popular, nutrient-dense foods may be available than you think… Subverting Your Food Allergy | Nutrition – OutsideOnline.com
Hungover? There, There…Try Nigella Lawson, Jamie Oliver And Gordon Ramsay’s Head-Easing Recipes | graziadaily.co.uk
“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering ‘it will be happier’…”
~Alfred Tennyson
Delightfully yours,
Orsola Ciriello Kogan @ Food Meditations
Our weekly roundup on tasty news from around the world and here’s what we are reading on…
A Holiday Feast of Beasts. Sam Sifton provides recipes and video guides for five protein-heavy main courses… | NYTimes.com
COOKING TRENDS
One year’s big-ticket item in Copenhagen may be all the rage in Chicago or Portland the next… Food & Drink Trend Predictions for 2014 | Details
ON THE MENU
Sampling coffee side by side and drawing out specific flavor profiles… Check Out This Coffee Flavor Wheel, So You Know Your Leather From Your Plum | Food Republic
Are You Drinking Too Much? The Myth Of Moderation. It’s easier to solve a trigonometry problem in your head than to get a straight answer about how much we should be drinking each day… | Forbes
Pour Vanity Fair, nous avons eu envie de proposer à cette nouvelle génération de chefs de réinventer des recettes historiques… à leur sauce. Le chou farci d’Andy Warhol, par James Henry | Vanity Fair
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Take another look at that food label. An ingredient or two may have vanished… Food ingredients shift as consumers push for change | NBC News.com
We’ve long known that the fish we eat are exposed to toxic chemicals in the rivers, bays and oceans… How Plastic In The Ocean Is Contaminating Your Seafood | The Salt : NPR
Check Out This Healthy Eats Vending Machine Fashioned from reclaimed barn wood and accompanied by recycling bins for the empty plastic food containers… | Food Republic
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” ~Nelson Mandela
Delightfully yours,
Orsola Ciriello Kogan @ Food Meditations
Our weekly roundup on tasty news from around the world and here’s what we are reading…
On the menu
Plating is now as much a reflection of a chef’s craftsmanship as is the cooking itself… The Ceramic Canvas | NYTimes.com
Meat And Booze With A Side Of Still Life: Food as a symbol of politics, diet, gender roles, technology, isolation, gluttony and… American Painters On Food | The Salt : NPR
As anyone who grew up playing Burger Time, Super Mario Bros., or Legend of Zelda knows: video games are all about food… The Woman Who Cooks Food from Video Games | bonappetit.com
XXX
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Un guide gastronomique québécois lance une campagne classée X pour ses dix-huit ans… La gastronomie interdite aux mineurs | Obsession
Creative notes
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Attention visual learners! Here’s A Cookbook With Cleverly Illustrated Recipes | Food Republic
Helping people find their way through philosophical (cooking) puzzles… Meet the gastronomic innovators helping Ferran Adrià disrupt the kitchen | (Wired UK)
Food for thought
Specific plate shape and colour interact to influence taste perception, researchers have found… White round plates: Does food taste better on them? BBC Food
Il ristorante dove paghi la metà (se spegni lo smartphone). Pranzo e cena a metà prezzo in un locale a Gerusalemme, dove l’unico requisito è quello di spegnere il cellulare… | Panorama
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” ~Plato
Delightfully yours,
Orsola Ciriello Kogan @ Food Meditations
Our weekly roundup on tasty news from around the world and here’s what we are reading on…
Photography
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There’s an abundance of still life food photography today, and most of it makes ordinary food look like works of art… Jan Kornstaedt’s Food Photography | Trendland: Design Blog & Trend Magazine
“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge,” said Pablo Picasso. It would seem the full potential of a work sometimes only emerges through the process of its destruction… Homebrew Chemical Cocktail Gives Spooky New Life to Old, Forgotten Negatives | wired.com
Travel bites
The Feast of Seven Fishes, or the Festa dei Sette Pesci, is the traditional dinner that many southern Italian and Italian-American families will sit down to this Christmas Eve… Get schooled on the Feast of Seven Fishes | Eatocracy – CNN.com Blogs
On the menu
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Will 3-D printing save the world? Bring in the apocalypse? Or is it just a gadget that spits out cheap plastic trinkets? An investigation… Dinner Is Printed | NYTimes.com
Bubbles
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Krug has created a device that amplifies the symphony of popping in a glass of their Grand Cuvée… Champagne Brand Lets Drinkers Listen To Their Fizzing Bubbles | PSFK
Attention pub quizzers and booze geeks. There’s a brand of one particular spirit that sells more than twice as much as any other in the world… Soju: the most popular booze in the world | Life and style | theguardian.com
Chocolate notes
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Look away now! Scientists have found that even the sight of cake or chocolate is enough to trigger the pleasure centre of the brain… Can’t resist chocolate cake? Blame your brain | Telegraph
Food for thought
Kitchen anxiety: no two ways about it, those biscuits are not going to taste good… How stress affects your food: from distorted tastes to comfort eating | Life and style | theguardian.com
Good nutrition can be especially elusive during the holidays, but the best lessons haven’t changed much since your childhood — whenever that was… Dietary Advice for the Gluttony Season | NYTimes.com
Simply swallowing a pill or consuming a drink made from powders does not provide us with the abundance of nutrients (or fiber!) that real food does… Do We Still Need Food? | Care2 Healthy Living
“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.” ~Coco Chanel
Delightfully yours,
Orsola Ciriello Kogan @ Food Meditations
