It’s almost impossible to ingest all the superfoods we’ve been instructed to eat on a daily basis. There aren’t enough meals in the day—and even if there were, not all of the listed produce are readily available. ); return…
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Sarah Illenberger nous fait découvrir le vrai visage des fruits et des légumes à travers un reportage photo amusant. La carotte se transforme en rouge à lèvres, la pastèque prend des allures de nuage, les piments prennent la place des flammes du briquet. Un monde fascinant dans le monde de la gastronomie.
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.
Pack your bags this month for Narrowsburg, New York and make a weekend out of Pig Mountain’s annual pig roast on 24 August 2013. This is the event’s third year of pig roasting and it looks…
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Already smitten with the idea of an illustrated cookbook, after trying out Amanda Cohen’s “Dirt Candy,” we were thrilled to hear about the release an English language version of “In the Kitchen with Alain Passard.”…
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Le musicien et producteur Jonathan Dagan, plus connu sous le pseudonyme de J.Viewz, s’amuse dans cette excellente vidéo tournée par Roy Rochlin à reprendre « Teardrop » de Massive Attack avec des fruits et légumes. Une idée saugrenue avec un rendu très réussie à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.
by Andrea DiCenzo The days of V8 dominating the vegetable juice arena with their tomato-based blends are over. Vegesentials—a new UK-based line of drinks—will have you thirsting for beets before you know it with their deliciously balanced concoctions like Carrot, Orange & Parsnip or Beetroot, Kiwi & Carrot. After sampling…
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Two apps seek out sustainable food and responsible diet options
We know plenty, perhaps even too much about how we ought to eat, but the fact remains we put a lot of faith in restauranteurs and grocery stockists to have our best interests in mind. Lately, we have noticed a few apps that aim to put power in the hands of the purchaser. Vegan, gluten-free, raw, green, sustainable, ethical and flexitarian eaters can all appreciate the awesome power of knowing the best foods to eat and where to find them.
The newest app for selective eaters is inBloom, founded by OK Go guitarist Andy Ross and Eytan Oren of Eytan and the Embassy. The personalized interface saves the users’ dietary preferences and employs the information to filter search results. Not limited to food, inBloom also offers the ability to search for eco-friendly lodging and electric charging stations. Each restaurant description includes yelp ratings, hours of operation, map location and other useful tidbits. The location-based app is currently only available for NYC with plans to spread to other cities.
Clean Plates is less user-specific, with browsing based on the type of fare you happen to be feeling at the moment. Search by cuisine, location, price or diet to find healthy, sustainable and delicious food. Essentially a restaurant searcher, Clean Plates sets itself apart with well-researched summaries that are a result of investigation into the background of individual restaurants. The app also includes Yelp ratings, links to Menupages, hours, price ranges and locations. Rather than ignoring middle-of-the road options, restaurants are rated as either “great,” “good” or “okay” to allow for more dining flexibility.
Some old favorites in the sustainable food app selection are Seafood Watch and Locavore. The former comes from Monterey Bay Aquarium and rates different types of seafood based on sustainability and ecological ratings. Once users decide on a fish, they can search restaurants and stores to find it nearby. Locavore features a seasonal food list so that you can stay informed of locally grown produce any time of year. The app also lets you search for nearby markets, browse recipes and see what others are eating in your area.
A slice of spice from Vermont with bold South-of-the-Border flavor
A small Vermont-based operation with outsized creativity, Deano’s Jalapeño Chips are flavorful little slices of actual peppers—perfect for spicing up burgers, eggs, snack mixes, popcorn or even as a stand-alone snack. Founder Doehne “Deano” Duckworth, inspired by Jalapeño-flavored potato chips, decided to skip the potato altogether.
Sliced paper thin, the peppers fry to a crisp before a dusting with either cheddar or ranch flavoring. Though it might sound as heart attack-inducing as their starchy cousins, Deano’s are free of trans fats, cholesterol, gluten and even hydrogenated as well as partially-hydrogenated oils.
You’ll find store listings and a few recipes for those of us with less-inspired culinary talents on their site.
All-in-one gardening solution simplifies at-home growing
From luxury chicken coops to high-tech wind turbines, the more accessible tools of today’s self-sustainability movement mean you can do things like raise fresh meat and harness affordable energy without going to extremes—providing you have the cash. But gardening at home, like an express lines for farm-to-table eating, tends to pose the greatest challenge for those craving homegrown produce.
Anyone who has tried to raise tomatoes or put down a bed for basil knows that between the watering, weeding and general maintenance, it takes some serious dedication to get great veggies. Enter Ken Kuhne, a 36-year veteran of customized green-home design and construction. Addressing the common problems faced by home gardeners, he came up with Grow Y’own, a self-contained, secure system for “no-brainer gardening.”
Put simply, the Grow Y’own solution combines a traditional raised bed with a greenhouse. Constructed of renewable cedar planks, the base supports plastic hooping that provides the structure for either a UV-resistant cover for summer or a flexible glass winter shell—allowing for year-round growing anywhere from the hot dry desert to the rainy Pacific Northwest. Because the covers are always on the risk of insects or other pests is nearly eradicated. The beds can also be raised, making gardening for those with mobility issues possible.
Suitable for places ranging from urban rooftops to rural estates, sizes go from 2′ x 4′ all the way up 4′ x 8′. An optional gopher screen keeps critters out and each Grow Y’own unit can easily connect to watering systems.
The DIY attitude that gave birth to and drives this product forward encourages buyers to customize and innovate with their garden beds. Order a kit from Kuhne and it will arrive with simple instructions to get you started. The kits are flat-packed and very easy to assemble. All it takes is attaching a few brackets and a little time to have your garden up and running. Alternatively, if you are in the Sante Fe area, Grow Y’own staff will install on site, adding any and all features you could desire.
We caught up with Ken Kuhne to learn a little more about the Grow Y’own system:
The Grow Y’own Hooped Raised Beds enable people to grow their own organic food source outside their backdoors, with the secure knowledge of how the plants were watered and handled, picked and brought to the table. They dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of shipping food thousands of miles, and most effectively support the ‘green’ movement that is so essential to the health of our planet.
More than anything, it is ‘no-brainer gardening.’ All that clients then have to do is watch their gardens grow, and go out and pick fresh food. The need to weed or maintain the beds is almost non-existent. I have 90-year-old grandmothers using them, who never thought they would garden again because of all the work involved—prepping the soil, fighting the sun, winds and critters. I’ve worked with school children in kindergarten who have not only grown successfully, but learned where their foods came from, the meaning of sustainability and how light, temperature and climate affected the plants.
A 4′ x 8′ grow bed will feed a family of four continuously and amply. Many people have more than one grow bed, because they want to grow more things. I have single women with as many as seven and they keep wanting to get more!
We’ve shipped to 25 states and everyone is growing successfully, whether it’s in extreme cold temps in Montana, in the ultra-heat of Tucson or the continuous rains of Ohio. Everyone across America is getting on the bandwagon of food growing. Grow Y’own is committed to empowering individuals all over the country, helping farmers and growers extend their seasons year round, and teaching people that ‘no brainer gardening’ is alive and well! One day, someone will give their grow bed to a grandchild and tell them, “This was Grandma’s garden, and one day you will continue the chain and pass it on.”
You can purchase all Grow Y’own’s models from the online store. The kits start at $225 and include hoops and a summer or winter shade.
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