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10-92012

Scratch your can of Palm beer

10-9-2012

 

Beer brand Palm is challenging the Netherlands to show some creativity on a beer can. Scratch a can of Palm beer and send your design through Facebook. Palm will pick out the best design, which will be in store from next year. The winner wins a trip to London for 2 persons as well. Dutch tattoo-artist Henk Schiffmacher opened the contest by tattooing a beer can. Company SSSS & Orchestra developed this marketing campaign. Sending your design is still possible until the end of September.

10-92012

Open High Street local delivery website

10-9-2012

Unilever is testing with a home delivery service for local groceries in Hereford. The ‘Open High Street’ website is mainly focused on food & drinks, but delivers products from a neighboring post office as well. The shops can join for 10 pence per delivery, customers pay 5 pound per order.

10-92012

Can of milk

10-9-2012

A nice gimmick on the breakfast or lunchtable, to serve your milk in style.

7-92012

BiteMe StreetDinner

7-9-2012

More than fifteen home cooks joined forces to prepare a neighborhood dinner and take it to the Erasmuspark in Amsterdam on the 9th of September. 200 neighbors can experience each others kitchens from 14.00 to 18.00 o’clock.

7-92012

iGuestbook

7-9-2012

iGuestbook is a screen and camera device that is used at weddings and other events to record short 60 second videos of your guests.

7-92012

Tasty ice cream posters

7-9-2012

These brilliant posters are designed by Renata El Dib and look like ice cream cones because of the double sided print.

6-92012

Meatballshop in Belgium, Balls & glory

6-9-2012

Tv-Chef Wim Ballieu wants to start a chain of meatballshop. He started a pop-up store in Gent at the Sint-Jacobsnieuwstraat in April. The balls – made from the meat from the butcher shop of his father – are filled with creative fillings such as chervil and pancetta, foie gras and even crab. You can eat in the shop and take-out the balls, they are served with ‘stoemp’ (mashed potatoes) or a salad. The balls are very popular; the pop-up setting is changed to a permanent settlement. Furthermore, a branch in Bruges will be opened and a pop-up version will open in Antwerp. We already wrote about The Meatball Shop (NY) and Monday, meatball day at restaurant ‘De Open Keuken’ in Hilversum.

6-92012

A fully vegetarian McDonald’s

6-9-2012

Next to the Golden Temple in Amritsar in India, a fully vegetarian McDonald’s restaurant will be opened. In the vicinity of this temple, people are not allowed to eat meat.

6-92012

Bottle carrier

6-9-2012

With the Bottle Bouquet carrying system, you only need one hand to carry a bottle of wine and 6 glasses. Easy solution for the beach or terrace.

5-92012

Discount for using the sustainable Tiffin container

5-9-2012

 about the project.The fastfood industry produces a lot of waste – all containers associated with “takeout” or “TO GO” items must be re-thought. The Tiffin Project Foundation did this. Buying a Tiffin Project Container at $ 25 means you’re reducing the Take-out waste, support local agriculture (4$ of each container is used to generate money to pay back the price difference between locally grown and mass production to the restaurant owner) and get a discount at your foodorder! Read more at their website The Tiffin Project. Who is going to start this in The Netherlands? 

5-92012

Noorderparkbar made of second-hand materials

5-9-2012

The Noorderparkbar in Amsterdam, opened in April 2012, is financed by crowd-funding. Designers Bureau SLA and Overtreders W decided to save expenses by using 100% second-hand materials. An ancient Japanese technique, shou sugi ban, was used to produce a cost-effective, low-maintenance exterior cladding of charred wood. More pictures on  The Pop-Up City.

3-92012

Humor sells

3-9-2012

This article is only available in Dutch.

3-92012

Yellow watermelon

3-9-2012

The yellow-fleshed watermelon is the almost identical twin of the red-fleshed watermelon and is described by some, as having a more sweeter, almost honey-like taste, than regular watermelons. We tasted it this summer at various breakfast buffets in the far East and loved it, but found the taste almost equal to the red-fleshed watermelon. But it’s great to make a watermelonsalad with both colors!

3-92012

The first Urban Food Week in London

3-9-2012

This September (10-16), London will feast on the fabulous local produce being grown, produced and cooked on its doorstep, with the capital city’s first Urban Food Week . The week of activities is being organised to highlight the importance of buying and eating local food, urban growing and planting forage for bees. During the week, restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs across the city will be showcasing dishes and drinks made with ultra-local fruit, veg and herbs from urban farms, and from London honey cultivated in community beehives.

3-92012

Small sustainable gesture

3-9-2012

The Royal Cliff Beach Resort in Pattaya, Thailand, has been awarded the ISO 14001 certification (internationally recognised Environmental Management System (EMS)). As guest, you will notice this by the laundry request (almost standard nowadays) and for example by a recyclable and unrecyclable wastebin in the room.

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