Christmas inspiration: Santa Claus hat brownie

14-12-2011

  • Kerstmuts brownie

These brownies with a Santa Claus hat are really easy to make. You take a brownie and put vanilla-butter on top. Top this off with a strawberry, which serves as a hat, decorate this with some whipped cream. Nice to serve this with a cup of coffee during the Christmas period.

Champagne climate chamber

14-12-2011

Top wine-expert Janne Rijpma developed a climate chamber especially for champagne. This luxurious leather-covered cooler is suitable for 40 bottles, you can control the temperature by degree, and the bottles lay in an optimal position.

Vitadrinks launches Funkin Cocktails

14-12-2011

Vitadrinks is coming with Funkin Cocktails, you only need to add ice and alcohol. These cocktails are available in tastes like Mojito, Cosmopolitan and Margarita. The Funkin Cocktails are available in a one-portion-package or in a big package for 10 cocktails.

Social media release; What is hot in 2012?

13-12-2011

The National Restaurant Association (USA) asked almost 1800 professional chefs about their opinion of the trends for 2012. They said about 223 items if it was a hot trend, yesterdays news or a perennial favourite. The results of the survey tell us that healthy food for kids, the use of local products, sustainability and social media are really important in 2012. Check youtube or the whole article for more information.

Rainman carafe

12-12-2011

This carafe poors the wine out of eight little holes in the side of it. Surprise customers with the showerhead-like effect. Designed by Matilda Sundén Ringnér, for Skruf Glasbruk

Get the clothes

9-12-2011

‘Krijg de kleren!’ (litterally ‘get the clothes’ but in figure of speech ‘F*ck off’) is an monthly initiative from Annemijn Boon and Rosan Brunger in a club in Amsterdam. Visitors –mostly women- bring old clothes with these and trade them with others while having a drink. The clothes that don’t have a new owner at the end of the evening will go to the next edition or are donated to Humana. Every edition has a theme, this Sunday it’s ‘Let’s Go Sjiek’.

Collaboration between bars and Brand beer

9-12-2011

In various cities in the Netherlands the cafes that tap Brand beer have joined hands to form the “Brandslang” (Fire Hose). The collaboration gives lots of opportunities for pub crawls and other activities. Venlo and Den Bosch go a bit further and organize a total package with culinary, cultural and quiz elements with the ‘Brandslang’.

Choose your neighbour at the airplane

8-12-2011

From the beginning of 2012, passengers of KLM can choose their own neighbour by selecting an interesting contact through using Facebook of LinkedIn. After check-in, passengers can open up their profiles. In 2012 a pilot will be started.

Update (7 February 2012) The Meet & Seat service is now available 

Eco-Cup-On-Ice

8-12-2011

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.

Toilet paper of bamboo

8-12-2011

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.

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