 Art for Carnivores - The 'Meat after Meat Joy' Exhibit::'Meat after Meat Joy' is a quaint and esoteric meat-themed exhibit that opened recently at the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery in New York City. Boing Boing describes the exhibit as a collection of "...photographs,… [MORE] |
 Frog Leg Pizza - The Controversial ‘Hopper’ Pie::Jumping amphibians! The humble pizza has leaped from being everyone’s favorite delivery meal to being exotic fare with the introduction of pizza topped with frog legs. The Hopper (£17.95 or $36) comes… [MORE] |
 Diets for Casual Vegetarians - Flexitarians Are the New Omnivores::Vegetarians sometimes are closet meat-eaters. Now being a flexitarian can remove the guilt of being a vegetarian but still scarfing down a cheeseburger when you’re totally wasted.
Dawn Jackson Blatner… [MORE] |
 Edible Masterpieces - The Mona Lasagne::Using 10,000 different pieces of pasta including fusilli, macaroni and lasagna, British culinary artist Prudence Emma Staite created this modern version of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the Mona Lisa.… [MORE] |
 Caffeinated Body Changes - Coffee Consumption Linked to Cup Size::A new Swedish study shows that women who drink lots of coffee may have their breasts shrink in size. Helena Jernström of Lund University carried out a study that showed a strong correlation between drinking… [MORE] |
 Puking Pumpkins - 10 Sick Jack o' Lanterns::These puking pumpkins use much more of the pumpkin than other jack o' lanterns. To make your own puking pumpkin, just set aside the carved-out insides and after you've completed carving your pumpkin, arrange… [MORE] |
 Waste-Free Eating - Kids Konserve Reusable Lunch Kits::The Kids Konserve reusable lunch kit brings a child’s boxed lunch into the eco-friendly millenium. Many moms are proud of the healthy lunches they pack, but don’t give nearly as much consideration to the… [MORE] |
 44 Tailgating and BBQ Inventions for the World Series::You might think that tailgating is more appropriate for football than baseball, but many MLB fans watching the 2008 World Series would beg to differ. Both games celebrate the American tradition of beer,… [MORE] |
 Porcelain to Replace Paper - "I Am Not A Paper Cup"::People's environmental consciousness is heightened like never before, and as a result, we're seeing a huge influx of sustainable products. While some consumers are panicking and going to green extremes,… [MORE] |
 DIY Wind-Up Jack o' Lanterns - Make Your Own Musical Pumpkins::This creative YouTube video shows a simple and fun way to modify your traditional Halloween jack o' lantern.
The moving mechanism behind this do-it-yourself project is shown on the video. The background… [MORE] |
 Finding Nutritious Restaurants - America’s Healthiest Casual Chains::In the great quest to be thin, people everywhere have one common struggle: eating out. How do you know what is really good for you and what hidden ingredients are going into the food you may deem healthy?… [MORE] |
 Recreating Famous Portraits With Food - The Meat Mona Lisa::Artists are always looking for innovative approaches to creativity, and for some odd reason, there have been an abundance of designers inspired by meat.
Just look at this modern take on Leonardo DaVinci's… [MORE] |
 Odd X-Rays as Art - 10 Really Strange Things People Eat::Some people eat very strange things. Sometimes it’s because they were just drunk at the time like the Bournemouth University (UK) student who swallowed a key (picture 1). Fortunately for him, the doctors… [MORE] |
 33 Vitamin Enhanced Products + Doctors Suggest Doubling Up on Vitamin D::We've known about the importance of Vitamin D for a while, but recent findings have found Vitamin D to be so beneficial, doctors are encouraging children to double their doses. The studies have found that… [MORE] |
 Real Food Explosions As Economic Metaphors - NY Times Magazine Food Issue::The Food Issue of New York Times Magazine has been launched and the promotional image is stunning. The exploding cob of corn taken by high speed photographer Martin Klimas symbolizes today’s issues with… [MORE] |
 Limited Edition Halloween Branding - From Spooky Soda to Pumpkin Ice Cream::When I am not dressing up or playing with fake blood, Halloween acts as the perfect excuse for me to consume a lot of junk food. With shock and gore being my area of expertise, I just had to write up the… [MORE] |
 Spooky Bento Boxes - 10 Halloween-Inspired Mini Meals::A bento is a meal that is served in a box. Traditionally, bento boxes contain either tiny compartments or individual components, each with its own simple lunch item. Today, however, just about anything… [MORE] |
 Unusual Bacon Culinary Innovations - Bizarre Repurposed Pork::I really don’t get why bacon is the meat that everyone loves, with inedible iterations modeled after bacon like clothes, furniture, tattoos, soap, hats, and scarves. Prosciutto di Parma aged ham doesn’t… [MORE] |
 Animal Obesity - Epidemic Spreads to Four-Legged Friends::Human obesity is on the rise in the United States. At the same time, pets are increasing in weight right alongside their owners.
While many owners believe they are being kind to their animals by feeding… [MORE] |
 Edible Lamps - Hasta La Pasta by Charlie Davidson::Environmentally-conscious industrial designers like Charlie Davidson of the UK can demonstrate their reluctance to contribute to landfills. He did so with this edible pasta lamp!
It is a fun piece he… [MORE] |
 Pill-Shaped Chocolates - Sugar Addiction Satisfaction::To some, eating chocolate is a must. The chocolate addiction is a common one, especially amongst women. So, in case of an emergency, you can now take a daily dose of these chocolate pills by Prezzy Box.… [MORE] |
 19 Unique Knives - For Collectors Like Angelina Jolie::Angelina Jolie is a known knife collector, and it looks like she intends to pass this trait on to her children; in November’s W Magazine, Angelina Jolie reveals that she has already purchased her son Maddox… [MORE] |
 Mail-Order Snacking - Graze Simplifies Healthy Eating::Whenever I go on a diet it follows a familiar pattern. I tend to venture cautiously into a health shop, get scared off by hardcore packs of dried bananas, and then scuttle down the road to get some Haribo… [MORE] |
 Star Wars Baking - Giant Yoda Birthday Cake::This hero dad has created a life-sized Yoda cake for his son’s fourth birthday (though I suspect also for himself). He has very kindly posted installments of this mammoth bake online.
I am not sure what… [MORE] |
 Eco Smart Cookbooks - Table Tucker::Eat your way to more cash and a better world. Table Tucker is pioneering a brand new recipe format for the time-poor. This little cookbook will organise dinner 52 weeks of the year, save you thousands… [MORE] |
 Pre-Segmented Meal Portions - The Nutrition Pyramid Lunch Box::Beijing based designer Li Jianye clearly remembered the nutritional lessons learned at school. For balanced meals, the proportion of meat to vegetables to carbohydrates for energy form a nutritional pyramid.… [MORE] |
 Hot Plates of the Future - Electrolux Cooking Tiles::When it comes to innovations in cooking, Electrolux is clearly ahead of the curve. One of their most recent inventions is the Electrolux Cooking tile.
The stackable, brightly coloured tiles could just… [MORE] |
 Alternative Wedding Desserts - Odd Cake Replacements::Since relationships don't really follow traditions anymore, it makes sense that many people opt for weddings that are a bit quirky are gaining in popularity. A good example of how things are changing can… [MORE] |
 Beastly Baking Themes - 10 Halloween Cupcakes::Holidays often bring out a desire to bake in theme, and Halloween is no exception. As it is a festival of blood and gore, creative bakers reflect ghoulish themes in their concoctions, such cupcakes with… [MORE] |
 Blowtorched Toast Art - The X Factor Judges Immortalized in Bread::An artist has depicted the faces of a UK talent show, The X Factor, onto pieces of toast. They were made for Warburtons, a bread brand who is sponsoring the show. This is a great example of getting more… [MORE] |
 Wine Glass Holding Dishes - The 'James' Plate::Andrea Grossfuss, the founder of Olaf Kiessling German studio Sternform, has designed a plate prototype named “James” that features a hole to hold wine glasses from its handle.
Due to its broad and unglazed… [MORE] |
 Food as Art - 10 Clever Food Sculptures::These ingenious and clever food sculptures come from different events and fairs around the world.
La Niña, La Pinta and La Santa Maria--the three ships that transported Columbus and his men to this part… [MORE] |
 Impractical Kitchen Gadgets - The Industrial-Strength Lemon Squeezer::Edward Horsford sure has a good sense of humor. His product, the Industrial-Strength Lemon Squeezer, takes a common household item and transforms it into an unconventional product that is a combination… [MORE] |
 Coffin Cakes - Baking with Dead Barbie Dolls::This is ridiculous and creepy. I mean, who spends hours and hours making a cake coffin to put a dead and mutilated Barbie doll into? This person, apparently.
I don't want to be a killjoy but you can't… [MORE] |
 Cocoa Feet - Toe-Food Chocolates::I have reached the end of the internet - a site that only sells toe food. Sweets and chocolate that looks like toes or feet.
However, they sound really, really dull on the website, as you can see from… [MORE] |
 Chocolate Deities - 8 Gods Everyone Can Worship::Chocolate is chocolate, right? No. While chocolate may be most frequently revered as the Patron Saint of Broken Hearts, it has branched out. Now you get chocolate deities of your choosing.
The site seems… [MORE] |
 Geek Pumpkins - Jack o' Lanterns for Gamers::You can always rely on geeks to come up with something snazzy on holidays, and these gamers haven't disappointed for Halloween with these carved pumpkins.
These game-inspired Jack o' Lanterns are quite… [MORE] |
 Contaminated Candy - Melamine Found in White Rabbit Creamy Candy::White Rabbit Creamy Candy is being hastily pulled from store shelves all over the world after tests found traces of melamine in the popular candy.
Melamine is an industrial additive used to make plastics… [MORE] |
 Life Sized Cow Cakes - Udderly Amazing Bakery::This anatomically correct cow wedding cake is truly remarkable; not only is it highly detailed, but it's also life size.
About the size of a real cow, it measures 2ft wide, 4ft long, and 3ft tall. It… [MORE] |
 Mozzarella Bars - Obikà in Manhattan::Mozzarella is the new sushi in New York, ever since the opening of Obikà (pronounced Oh-bee-KA), Manhattan’s first mozzarella bar.
It is like a sushi bar that uses buffalo mozzarella instead of fish,… [MORE] |
 Unwedding Celebrations - Divorce Cakes::Shanna Moakler seems to have invented the 'divorce cake,' or at least she made it more mainstream after her much publicized breakup with Travis Barker of Blink-182.
Thanks to her help, celebrating the… [MORE] |
 Eco Self-Chilling Coolers - The E-Bag::The E-Bag is a cooler that can keep your lunch or drinks cool without any ice packs. The cooling energy is derived from swinging the bag to and fro as the user walks along. The bag's handle, which is attached… [MORE] |
 Chic Compostable Dinnerware - Verterra Leaf Dishes::According to Verterra, not all compostable dinnerware is made equal. Most compostable dishes on the market cannot be microwaved or put in the oven, and are made from food crops that could have been used… [MORE] |
 IRL TV Feuds - Martha Stewart and Norma Collier Story on Desperate Housewives::Norma Collier and Martha Stewart are the real life versions of Bree and Katherine from Desperate Housewives. In real life, Norma Collier was a partner with Martha Stewart until Martha went behind Norma's… [MORE] |
 Cow-Milking Robots - Automated Dairy Extractors::Robots aren't just making the lives of humans easier, they are also improving the quality of life for cows. A robotic milker has been developed to fully automate the cow-milking process. A trained cow… [MORE] |
 40 Anti-Vegetarian Innovations::My poor vegetarian sister will hate me for writing this article. I just find all the products people are making out of meat, or that are inspired by meat, far too bizarre not to feature. I'm talking bacon… [MORE] |
 Hamburger Cakes - The Whopper Wedding Burger::Fast food junkies, Tom and Kerry Watts, celebrated their marriage with their dream wedding cake - a 42 pound, half a meter wide hamburger.
The gigantic burger weighed the equivalent of around 100 quarter… [MORE] |
 Gadgets Made of Meat - Art for Carnivores::Mothers are always telling their children not to play with their food. In this case, that message clearly fell upon deaf ears.
These meat-made gadgets gives a whole new meaning to having fun with your… [MORE] |
 Luxury Desserts for Gamers - The Katamari Wedding Cake::The Katamari wedding cake is based on the Japanese puzzle-action video game developed by Namco for the Playstation 2.
This wedding cake is actually just a lemon cake with strawberry filling. What makes… [MORE] |
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