Our weekly roundup on tasty news from around the world and here’s what we are reading on…
Designing a lamp, that is altered completely in its functionality only through its untypical and odd surface… Soft light | iGNANT
Experimental, contemporary and sleek… Introducing The Ladies & Gentlemen Studio | Trendland: Design Blog & Trend Magazine
Donuts, peanuts, a petrol station egg sandwich? All washed down with cupfuls of coffee? Hungry detectives: Why crime novelists write about food | BBC Food
Lifestyle
Slowly but surely, women are making their way into haute cuisine kitchens around the world to turn up the heat… Women heat up the kitchen | iafrica.com
London-based product designer David Steiner And His Domestic Factory, feels better at home… | Yatzer
Travel bites
Did your mother prepare you lunchboxes when you were in primary school? 10 Most Creative Lunchbox With Cartoon Characters | themost10.com
Sprayable energy, Sprayable caffeine for when coffee’s too difficult | grist.org
Supermarkets in China present you the fashion of napkins and paper towels… | offbeatchina.tumblr.com
http://youtu.be/n7Gzq36Pt3I
EcoDesign
Naturally Clicquot, when ecodesign is trendy | on youtube.com
Mark Your Drink, Be Dapper With Mustache Drink Markers | Foodiggity.com
By Design | The Kitchen Apron Gets a Stylish Upgrade – The upstart company Hedley & Bennett is outfitting L.A.’s top chefs (and other leading creative professionals) with smart new smocks… | NYTimes.com
Healthy note
Wouldn’t it be grand (and delicious) if we could boost our brain power with a daily dose of chocolate? Can Chocolate Boost Brain Health? Don’t Binge Just Yet | The Salt : NPR
Food for thought
A WWII Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark | blogs.smithsonianmag.com
“In a lot of modern novels, it’s difficult to write about sex without it becoming pornographic or just cliched, but you can do food” ~Barry Forshaw
Delightfully yours,
Orsola Ciriello Kogan @ Food Meditations
