We all know that eating local is not only more efficient, but also more delicious – unfortunately it can be hard to find the variety of foods we eat without resorting to a large supermarket. LocalHarvest is a web resource for finding local farms and farmers markets, including a map of all the farms and […]
Category Archives: food
food map
This elegant seasonal food map on Epicurious shows what produce can be locally found in each state for a given month. Maps like this can make it possible to avoid the excessive shipping and stale flavors of commercial produce. In the future a map like this could have infinite granularity, to help people find the […]
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edible utensils
we’ve seen edible cups, and now edible spoons made of bread by tim simpson. there’s something elegant about making everything that touches your mouth edible, and certainly it’s more sustainable than plastic spoons. but how long do they last?
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grandma-net
humanbeans‘ latest project is what’s cooking grandma, a social network for sharing your grandmother’s cooking through youtube videos. it serves as a recipe website, a social network and a nice way to herald oft-neglected domestic work.
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super-traceability
in its pursuit of lightning-fast food delivery domino’s has introduced a web-based pizza tracking tool that details the progress of your pie on its half-hour journey to your house. as we continue to expect the ever-finer granularity of traceability for products, is this the direction to push it? maybe instead of this relatively useless innovation […]
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spoiled spud, crack-proof egg & co
sensor wireless inc. makes replicas of products such as potatoes or eggs (left) and glass bottles (right) outfitted with sensors (probably accelerometers) so that manufacturers can track damage to the product along the assembly line in real-time on PDAs. i first learned about the smart spud ™ while visiting frito-lay, because the conveyor belts and […]
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