There are a lot of different chips flavors, with or without ridges. This glass potato chips is different than the others, it has the crunch and flavor of a potato chip but it is transparent. You can create your own colour and flavor and make it at home. The original recipe was created Hamid Salimian, the chef at Diva at the Met. Check out the recipe of the transparent chips.
After the great success of the pop-up restaurants in Amsterdam last January, star chef Niven Kunz will transform ‘People’s Place’, the canteen of the European headquarter of Tommy Hilfiger into a temporary restaurant. From Sunday June 30th till Thursday July 4th, Niven serves 10 signature dishes. A special lunch for parents with children is organized on Sunday to let families experience and taste vegetable dishes. Together with a matching slow-juice arrangement.
The ‘Farm festival’ (end of the Future of Food Festival) takes place on Sunday May 26th at farm ‘t Schop. The festival is dedicated to food and the future of our food. The organic farm ‘t Schop presents their farm to people who are curious to their beef, the vegetable garden, the farm shop and more. The program includes a market, mini-lectures, cooking workshops for children, a competition, live music and more.
Eat every day at someone else’s place… Early this year Simon started his social experiment where he will eat every day at different places for one year. In return, he will paint a wall, cleans a house or he will bring something to eat or drink. Through his social experiment he discovers new tastes, meets new people and gets to know new places. Would you also like to cook for Simon? You can invite him at his Facebook page.
Domino’s Brazil has launched a great campaign with a local video stores: bake a pizza in a DVD player. When you place the DVD into the player, it looks like a average movie disk. When the temperature of the disk increases throughout the movie, the ink will be activated. After the movie, when the disk is ejected, the DVD is transformed into a mini pizza with pizza aroma, fresh baked into you player. The pizza has a message that encourages fans to pare the next movie with a Domino’s pizza.
We see more and more robots behind the bar preparing drinks. This robot Makr Shakr mixes and serves drinks and is controlled by an app. The robot can make drinks with about two dozen spirits and liqueurs, more than a hundred non-alcoholic mixers and can add ingredients such as mint, lemon slices, salt and pepper. Earlier we saw the robot Bartendro making cocktails within ten seconds.
Enjoying fries while eating healthy vegetables. The Dutch supermarket PLUS is the first who sells ‘Vegetable fries’. Vegetable fries looks like potato fries but are made of corn, carrots and white beans with herbs and spices. Vegetable fries contain less carbohydrates, calories and no added sugars or artificial substances. With one portion of fries children get more than 50% of their daily recommended amount of fiber.
Grapedistrict introduced a new festive nonalcoholic drink. The new PasDuTout is an alcohol-free bubble from the Provence and made of Airen, Riesling and Rivaner grapes. During the winemaking process, the most of the alcohol vaporizes. At the end the drink contains 0.2% alcohol. The PasDuTout is a fresh and fruity wine with a strong bubble and can be served as an aperitif or as summer drink. The PasDuTout is available in restaurants, bars and beach clubs.
The crispy sugary crust of a donut with the layers of a croissant… Dominque Ansel has created something new, namely a croissant + donut = cronut ™. The cronut ™ is a with cream-filled croissant-donut with glaze. Already a big hit in America!
With the Statechi Touch USB LED lamp you can easily transform an empty bottle into a lamp. Use empty bottles as a light, fun and original for restaurants and bars!
The China Environmental Protection Foundation launched the ‘Green Pedestrian Crossing’ campaign to encourage people to walk instead of using the car. The organization placed a large white canvass with an illustration of a leafless tree on a busy crosswalk. Sponges with environmentally friendly and washable green paint were placed on either side of the street. Every time when someone crossed the street, green footprints became the leaves of the bare tree. As more people crossed, more leaves were created.
The Italian ‘Pizzafestijn’ Catering serves a pizza-gourmet besides Italian snacks and a live cooking buffet with pizza appetizers. With the pizza-gourmet guests can cover small fresh pizza bases with pizza sauce and ingredients of choice. These mini pizzas can be baked in a small pizza oven. A buffet of salad and oven baked Italian bread with herb butter is served with the pizza-gourmet. ‘Pizzafestijn’ also provides the ‘live cooking’ concept on events, where they bake fresh pizza appetizers.
Earlier this month, Gault & Millau Benelux published the ‘Green Gault & Millau’ for the first time. The guide highlights restaurants in the Benelux that give vegetables a preference on their menu. The book contains usefull addresses, tips about vegetables and interviews with health experts. Gault & Millau shows that cooking with vegetables is healthy and can be very delicious by offering vegetables recipes from chefs like Jonnie Boer, Niven Kunz and Gert Mangeleer.
Rhubarb is a plant from the knotweed family. These red stems have been sought for more than 5000 years for its medicinal purposes or processed into compote and used for desserts. Mister Kitchen and distillery Herman Jansen have captured the unique taste and fluorescent color in a bottle: ‘Rabarcello’. The sour, sweet and bitter taste are in perfect composition and without any additives a subtle 18% alcohol. Rabarcello can be served pure with some ice next to a fitting course, but also for cocktails.
In response to our previous article about ‘Foodem‘ appears that we also have an online marketplace for suppliers and byers in the Netherlands, namely ‘Vers 24/7’. ‘Vers 24/7’ is part of Deli XL and started in September 2012. It’s an online platform for specialists and the hospitality sector, without the intervention of wholesale. Every fresh specialist has its own profile where he can determine his assortment and price range. ‘Vers 24/7’ transports the products of the specialist to the hospitality sector. At the moment the platform consist of more than 75 specialists including meat, fish, cheese but also Dutch wines. With this platform, regional products become more accessible for the hospitality sector.
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The popular chef’s table at restaurant Ivy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is now being auctioned. Up to 10 days in advance people can place their bids. The minimum bid is € 1.350,= and for the amount of € 3.000,=, the table is directly yours!
On each carton of Vai-Vai juice, different socially responsable organizations are mentioned.
The Italian design duo Dolce & Gabbana developed a new drink, in collaboration with Martini. The new drink will be reveiled during Milan’s fashion week and will be in the style of the 20th anniversary of the male collection of D&G.
Disney hotels will open a hotel for the pets of their guests. Animals can stay at the luxury hotel while their owners have fun in the parks. the hotel open’s its doors by the end of August.
The new Norwegian Epic features an icebar. It is the world’s first floating icebar. Guests will receive a caot, gloves and a hat before entering the bar, which is at –8 degrees Celsius.
The vodka of 3Vodka is made of soybeans and is therefore gluten-, carbohydrate- and sugarfree.
This new type of plate, designed by Jean Marcy Gady, is perfect for chefs who serve dishes with 3 different methods of preperations of one product.
Found makes organic juices. By the eco-efficient way of working, Found is the first climate neutral company in the world according to the Carbon Reduction Insitute (CRI).
Whipped cream and alcohol are not directly a perfect match. Still, with Whipahol whipped cream with alcohol is now a fact. Perfect on a cocktail, a cup of coffee or a dessert.
The TableSol protects your drink from the sun. The cap can be adjusted to different designs and logos.
No more endless discriptions of a dish. With Foodspotting for iPhone you can instantly upload a photo of the dish in front of you.
Due to mobile phones, payphones are no longer of any use. In Austria, the telephone company found a new destination for 13,500 payphones. The payphones have been rebuild into charging stations for electric vehicles.
From the 25th to the 31st of October the second edition of the Fair Trade restaurant week will be held. This week is an initiative of the sustainable culinary guide “Puur! Uit eten” and the Max Havelaar Foundation. The goal? Promotion for the consumption of Fairtrade-products in the hospitality industry.
Strawberries are a popular fruit. Yet there is a big difference in flavor between different species. To promote the taste of strawberries Jan Robben, organized the first strawberrymob in Amsterdam. The discussion on Twitter is in full swing. So all foodies… gather in Amsterdam on the 4th of July for the first strawberrymob!
The finishing touch for your company’s interior, the glass doors of the Italian company OTC. OTC offers a wide range of doors, but you can also make your own design.
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A new concept from China, where trains no longer have to stop. See the movie for an explanation.
A simple green message for in the hotel bathroom.
Due to the online revolution, millions of people actively looking to find and keep in touch with like-minded people in the virtual world. Through GPS, Internet and mobile Internet, it is actually becoming easier to make appointments.
This Lego-block, designed by Tim Vinke, is actually a mobile office. It consists of 2 chairs, a bookshelf and a desk. The wheel makes the office mobile when it is assembled again.
Triangular Concepts gives the waffle a new look. These lollipops are baked in 2 minutes. Tasty and convenient for traveling.
The new Marina Bay Sands Hotel features a swimming pool and a park on the rooftop at an altitude of 250 meters. This swimming pool and park does connect the 3 buildings. World’s most expensive hotel is located in the harbour of Singapore.
Because of the World Cup, Nike has a new action. Through social media like Facebook and Twitter, people can send a message, containing an endorsement for their favorite soccer player, which is shown on a large screen on the Life Centre in Johannesburg. This screen, which is half the size of a soccerfield, shows the message with a corresponding animation. After showing the message, the transmitter receives a message containing a picture of her/his headline on the screen. The same technology can be used in a nightclub or a festival.
Finally, somebody found a purpose for the choirs that normally hang on your sweater, without being used. With the hoodiebuddie, earphones for your MP3-player are integrated in these choirs. The connector is incorporated into one of the pockets. In addition, the waterproof earbuds and the sweater can be washed in the washing machine.
Creater James Nash booked a great success with his wine-to-go. The glass of wine with a lid, costs € 3,=, and has the same pricelevel as a glass of wine in a bar. The wine is available in red, white and rosé wine. A rather expensive alternative to a bottle of wine and some plastic glasses for a picnic in the park. Perhaps suitable for singles? What do you think?
A Safeway-supermarket has taken the streetscape into account, to create a garage behind the building. Also, the supermarket is located on the topfloor of the 2-story building, so that on streetlevel, the building accommodates local suppliers. Nice initiative! Which entrepreneur provides a platform for local suppliers?
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