Eco-Cup-On-Ice
This environment friendly cup is especially made for ice-coffee. It keeps your drink cool and with this cup you can reduce the use of plastic and paper cups, because you can re-use the Eco-Cup-On-Ice.
This environment friendly cup is especially made for ice-coffee. It keeps your drink cool and with this cup you can reduce the use of plastic and paper cups, because you can re-use the Eco-Cup-On-Ice.
Green Trade Company developed Bampa, toilet paper made of Bamboo, organic fibers like (sugar)cane and fibres. This is much more sustainable than normal toilet paper, because hacking trees is prevented, bamboo grows 500 times faster then trees, this bamboo is not from the living environment of the giant panda, and they re-use the water and bio-fuel is used. Bampa is already popular in United States, Asia and Australia, in Europe the Netherlands are the first.
The team of Restolib’ organizes cooking classes, cooking workshops, wine and beer tastings, cocktail workshops and children’s parties. These workshops take place in different Parisian restaurants during closing hours. A nice concept; food lovers get the chance to cook in a professional restaurant kitchen and restaurant owners will have the change to create a higher turnover by renting their restaurant.
Two hours of total focus on music with a ‘guide’. The initiators came up with this concept due the stress nowadays, nobody is really listening to the music anymore. During two hours the visitors will hear all kinds of genres, composers and songwriters. At the end the visitors can determine how much they will pay, depending on how much they’ve liked the show.
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A dozen of international chefs searched for an answer to the question if ecology and gastronomy go well together. The chefs organized a challenge to compose a meal of local products, while using as little energy as possible. The result was an unprecedented, uncooked meal with the original taste of the products. ‘Cook it Raw’ takes the chefs from destination to destination, to cook with local products at each location. Nespresso, a partner with the same values, is closely involved with the project.
The new Magisso Teacup, designed by Laura Bougdanos en Vesa Jääskö, has won a Red Dot award and makes tea drinking nice and simple. Thanks to the triangle bottom, it becomes easy to adjust the strength of the tea, without creating a mess. Watch the movie here for a drink instruction.
QR codes have been generally used to provide consumer with more information about a product or company. Now Paperlinks used these square barcodes in mobile take-away menu’s. Guests can order and pay for their food by scanning the code with their smartphone. ‘The Order Takeout’ platform has been launched this month in a few restaurants in Los Angeles.
In de US and Great Brittain bartenders are producing strange cocktails. As well giant ants, giant hairy spiders and grasshoppers are used as ingredients. Some insects are just for decoration, while others are roasted for a better flavor of the cocktail. The ‘Artesian Bar’ in London serves for example the ‘Langham Tea Punch’ in which you can find a baked tarantula and a scorpion. Nevertheless these insects are very nutritious and contain about 10 to 20 grams of protein.
Beach pavilion Beach Inn in IJmuiden now serves croquettes of geese from Schiphol. Because of the safety around the airport, geese are killed. Before, nothing was done with these dead geese so far. Rob Hagenouw, an artist from Amsterdam, came with the idea to use these geese in a variant of the traditional croquet. The American crayfish and the muskrat are the next animals in Hagenouws the crosshairs.
The Pop-up Wine Bar will be opening her doors in Amsterdam from 17 November until 23 December. You can taste 41 different wines by the glass and even per sip. The price per glass will vary from € 3,50 to € 350,= and a small menu will be offered such as several types of cheese, delicacies and sushi to accompany the wines. The Pop-up Wine Bar provides with a living room, a bedroom, a large kitchen table, a tv-corner and a bubblebad. Moreover it is allowed to smoke inside, to enjoy a sigaret in bed to create the perfect home-away-from-home feeling.
This environment friendly cup is especially made for ice-coffee. It keeps your drink cool and with this cup you can reduce the use of plastic and paper cups, because you can re-use the Eco-Cup-On-Ice.
Green Trade Company developed Bampa, toilet paper made of Bamboo, organic fibers like (sugar)cane and fibres. This is much more sustainable than normal toilet paper, because hacking trees is prevented, bamboo grows 500 times faster then trees, this bamboo is not from the living environment of the giant panda, and they re-use the water and bio-fuel is used. Bampa is already popular in United States, Asia and Australia, in Europe the Netherlands are the first.
The team of Restolib’ organizes cooking classes, cooking workshops, wine and beer tastings, cocktail workshops and children’s parties. These workshops take place in different Parisian restaurants during closing hours. A nice concept; food lovers get the chance to cook in a professional restaurant kitchen and restaurant owners will have the change to create a higher turnover by renting their restaurant.
Two hours of total focus on music with a ‘guide’. The initiators came up with this concept due the stress nowadays, nobody is really listening to the music anymore. During two hours the visitors will hear all kinds of genres, composers and songwriters. At the end the visitors can determine how much they will pay, depending on how much they’ve liked the show.
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A dozen of international chefs searched for an answer to the question if ecology and gastronomy go well together. The chefs organized a challenge to compose a meal of local products, while using as little energy as possible. The result was an unprecedented, uncooked meal with the original taste of the products. ‘Cook it Raw’ takes the chefs from destination to destination, to cook with local products at each location. Nespresso, a partner with the same values, is closely involved with the project.
The new Magisso Teacup, designed by Laura Bougdanos en Vesa Jääskö, has won a Red Dot award and makes tea drinking nice and simple. Thanks to the triangle bottom, it becomes easy to adjust the strength of the tea, without creating a mess. Watch the movie here for a drink instruction.
QR codes have been generally used to provide consumer with more information about a product or company. Now Paperlinks used these square barcodes in mobile take-away menu’s. Guests can order and pay for their food by scanning the code with their smartphone. ‘The Order Takeout’ platform has been launched this month in a few restaurants in Los Angeles.
In de US and Great Brittain bartenders are producing strange cocktails. As well giant ants, giant hairy spiders and grasshoppers are used as ingredients. Some insects are just for decoration, while others are roasted for a better flavor of the cocktail. The ‘Artesian Bar’ in London serves for example the ‘Langham Tea Punch’ in which you can find a baked tarantula and a scorpion. Nevertheless these insects are very nutritious and contain about 10 to 20 grams of protein.
Beach pavilion Beach Inn in IJmuiden now serves croquettes of geese from Schiphol. Because of the safety around the airport, geese are killed. Before, nothing was done with these dead geese so far. Rob Hagenouw, an artist from Amsterdam, came with the idea to use these geese in a variant of the traditional croquet. The American crayfish and the muskrat are the next animals in Hagenouws the crosshairs.
The Pop-up Wine Bar will be opening her doors in Amsterdam from 17 November until 23 December. You can taste 41 different wines by the glass and even per sip. The price per glass will vary from € 3,50 to € 350,= and a small menu will be offered such as several types of cheese, delicacies and sushi to accompany the wines. The Pop-up Wine Bar provides with a living room, a bedroom, a large kitchen table, a tv-corner and a bubblebad. Moreover it is allowed to smoke inside, to enjoy a sigaret in bed to create the perfect home-away-from-home feeling.