Après l’excellente série Bodyscapes, voici les paysages de Carl Warner basés uniquement sur des denrées alimentaires : biscuits, pain ou encore légumes deviennent montagnes, maisons ou visages. Le travail de cet Arcimboldo moderne est résolument féérique. Une très belle série à voir dans l’article.
A satisfying line of tea- and coffee-infused shortbreads
Biscottea was founded in 2007 by Laurance Milner to cater to “real” tea enthusiasts who prefer traditional shortbread biscuits over Italian biscotti. The Seattle-based company’s tasty organic cookies are made with real tea, in a range of flavors like Earl Gray, chai, mint, blueberry and African honeybush. They also make a line of gluten-free cookies, which pack just as much punch in an easy-to-digest alternative.
At the same time, the tea enthusiasts at Biscottea haven’t forgotten about their coffee-drinking friends. The brand’s Bis*coffee line infuses the same shortbread cookies with real chocolate and coffee for a perfect compliment to your morning espresso. We’ve been taste-testing all of the flavors with our afternoon caffeine fixes—we’re equally divided between coffee and tea at CH HQ—and found you can’t go wrong with any of the mildly sweet treats.
The full range of all-natural, fair trade cookies sell online from Biscottea’s well-designed website, with prices starting around $6 for a 5.6-ounce box and $30 for gift sets.
Cherry spoons and bone-shaped treats—pas pour les chiens!
On a recent visit to beloved Parisian boulangerie and patisserie Poilâne, we scooped up the two newest flavors in their line of savory and sweet biscuits—cherry cookies in the shape of spoons (nicely complimenting their curry forks and shortbread spoons) and dog bones aptly called Pas Pour Les Chiens (not for dogs).
The bone-shaped cookies by celebrity cartoon dogs Caperino and Peperone (little caper and big pepperoni—”guess why”), most famous for their work with Paris boutique Colette, certainly look like something made for K9s, but non. According to a charming comic strip enclosed in each box of eight, the cookies simply got their shape during the dogs’ hijinks with their hats in the Poilâne kitchen.
Olivier Kuntzel and Florence Deygas, the artists behind Caperino and Peperone, also helped to design the packaging on the Pas Pour Les Chiens biscuits—just the latest extension of their cartoon characters, whose repertoire of collaborations includes Swarovski, Nike, Fendi, Kidrobot and several others.
As for their flavor, Chef Lior Lev Sercarz of La Boîte created a spicy blend of nutmeg and ground peppercorns called “Fourmis Rouge” (Red Ant), bridging savory and sweet tastes. The cherry spoons are all sweet, with just a hint of the fruit, for a snack at any time throughout the day.
The biscuits are baked in Paris and shipped to NYC, selling for $15 for a box of eight at La Bôite. Or, pick them up from the Poilâne online shop or their stores in Paris and London.
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