SWEET! The sugar Lab!
The Sugar Lab is a micro-design firm for custom 3D printed sugar. With their background in architecture and their penchant for complex geometry, they are bringing 3D printing technology to the genre of mega-cool cakes.
It makes it possible to design, digitally model and print an utterly original sugar sculpture on top of a cake. All of their projects are custom. Go check it out!
(thanks to Anton)
Visual Story Cook Book
Katie Shelley transformed 50 recipes into sketches that explain how to prepare them.
“One of my goals for this book is to encourage people to just let go of rigid kitchen rules and be loose and free about cooking. The charm of the illustrations is great for its own sake, but it’s also performing a real function in helping make cooking feel easy, lighthearted, and do-able,” Shelly writes. “So what if you mess up? Once things get too serious, the drawings stop being inviting and start seeming intimidating. Like how people feel so oppressed by Ikea diagrams.”
Her book ‘Picture Cook’ will be available in Octobre 2013 but you can already pre-order it.
(via fastco)
MADtastic! fresh design from madrid’ presents furniture and product developments hailing from spain’s capital, whether they have been conceived by local or foreign designers living in the city, or produced by big or emerging madrid-based companies.
(via DesignBoom)
Epic (Real) Chinese Dinner
One of the Culinerds (Anna) is lucky enough at work to be sitting between two extremely food-loving guys (Hei-Yu and Wang) for years now. Whenever there has been an event like a wedding, new years or other holidays they talk about all the great food they have been eating. Although it is always good to hear about good food it is even better to try it yourself. Therefore Hei-Yu and Wang organised a real chinese dinner so we all could try some of these amazing dishes.
It was time for the Culinerds to also get to experience this epic cantonese cuisine. On a cold evening in February it was time to feast at an Epic Chinese Dinner!
The dinner was at Oriental City Amsterdam, (the place to eat great cantonese dishes) where they prepared a very special dinner for the guests of Wang and Hei-Yu.
The awesome menu:
1. Roasted Peking Duck with Pancakes2. Roasted Suckling Pick with Jelly Fish3. Steamed Scallops with Garlic and Chinese Vermicelli4. Char Siu and Roasted Pork Belly5. Lobster with Yee Mein Noodles6. Stir-fried Kai Lan7. Salt Pepper Squid8. Asparagus with Roasted Duck9. Chinese Sweet and Sour SpareribsNomnomnom…. most certainly a night our taste buds won’t forget soon! Thanks to Hei-Yu & Wang :)
Lovely Pen Drawing Restaurants
Years ago one of our great colleagues from Arup, Giulio Antonutto-Foi, started to work on these fabulous little booklets with his own pen-drawings. Being a food-loving Italian, every restaurant he visits is captured in a beautiful little drawing and later on filled in with watercolor. He writes down the name of the restaurant and whether the food was any good. The booklets are a feast to the eye and a great resource of good restaurants. If we could only draw that well….
