YES WE CANTEEN is a new catering concept for universities in Holland. Instead of one caterer, YES WE CANTEEN entails different stands, from soup to salad, from Dutch chocolate sprinkles to Surinamese sandwiches. YES WE CANTEEN stands for a tasty, cheap and varied offer. In the week of 14 to 18 November, YES WE CANTEEN organizes a trial week at the University of Amsterdam.
Grand Hotel Heiligendamm in Germany now provides a new menu for future gourmets; high quality baby menus. One can choose from a wide range of meat, vegetables, side dishes and sweet ingredients. All ingredients are organic and the menus can be ordered for free, as well in the restaurant, the bars as from the hotel rooms.
Vulkanspargel is an old salad- and vegetable plant from Germany that got into oblivion. The plant is still grown in the south of Germany under the name “Catalogna puntarelle di galatina”. The taste is comparable to chicory, and the asparagus can be used as the basis of a salad. Moreover the plant has a high vitamin and mineral content in addition to its positive effect on digestive and blood circulatory.
The Easy Butter enables us to easily use and grate fresh and cold butter directly out of the fridge. The Easy Butter is a true butter rasp with which one obtains an easy spreadable butter. In addition it can be used as decoration.
Easy2Hold is a bottlegirp that makes pouring easy, for young and old. It prevents spilling and is easy to use on most known bottles. Additionally it has a convenient closing and it exists in many colours.
After cupcakes have been a major culinary trend, a new culinary trend has raised in Great Britain; “cinnamon buns”. In Great Brittain cinnamon has already been very popular for a while. Besides artisian specialist shops, a number of chains are implementing this new trend, such as Marks&Spencer. These cinnamon buns are baked with cinnamon-based yeast dough. Thin layers of dough will be lubricated with butter in order to obtain a crunchy texture and a full flavor. Because of a mixture of white sugar and cinnamon, the bun gets a distinct flavor. We think that the Dutch Bolussen do taste greater, did you ever try one?
Quietly enjoy a drink while your belongings are safely stored? No more dragging heavy bags while shopping? In the evening enjoying going out without worrying whether your expensive jacket is safe? The city wardrobe is located in the center of Groningen. It is a safe, reliable storage for your jackets and bags. As From 1 euro you can already make use of the City wardrobe.
1/2 PROJECT is a campaign that puts donating to charity in a different perspective. With the 1/2 Project you can donate half of your ordinairy expenses to charity instead of large sums of money at once. The project links companies and NGO’s together and plays a role in the product design. For example, pay a whole Domino pizza and donate half of it to charity.
On the 1st of November fresh and healthy food restaurant chain Eazie launches a campaign where ‘giving’ is the main subject. Everyone who orders an ‘Eazie giving’ menu receives a QR-ticket and can win great prizes. For Eazie this is a way to thank their community in the weeks before Thanksgiving. The prizes are provided by the partners of Eazie. Two tickets to Bangkok are provided by Wereldtickets.nl, a pair of Tom Ford sunglasses by Zonnebrillen.com and a custom made bike by the Swedish Bikebyme are a few examples.
Smiling oysters can be opened by hand instead of using an oyster knife. Naked lobsters have taken off their coats.In both cases the pascalization makes the preparation (and eating) a lot easier. Read more about pascalization (Dutch.) Topchef Moshik Roth shows how you can open an oyster by hand and can prepare it. Short films can be watched on the “Kreeft & Oesters” TV, where films about new dishes are added regularly. Smiling oysters and Naked Lobsters are only available for restaurants and can be ordered on the website.
The Region FoodValley is a cooperation where eight communities work together in order to produce and promote healthy and sustainable food. Region FoodValley is known for its knowledge and applications in food. Together with the partners of FoodValley Ambition does FoodValley work to achieve a European top-5 status in the area of healthy and sustainable food.
Coca-cola started a collaboration with the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), to enlarge the awareness for saving the polar bear. Since the polar bear has been Coca-cola’s icon for its Christmas commercials, they want to give something back to their beloved polar bear. Therefore Coca-cola will give their Coca-cola cans a new look by giving them a white colour, instead of red. Coca-cola will also donate 2 million dollars to the WWF in order to help protect the polar bear and its environment.
‘Buy my face’ is a new marketing campaign that is created by two students in England. These students sell their face to companies to paint an advertisement on their face, in order to pay off their student loans. A creative idea for a cafe or retail brand to promote itself?
Doehne “Deano” Duckworth has created the new Jalapeno chips, that instead of potatoes is made from real jalapenos. The Jalapenos chips were originally made as appetizer for the Cactus Café from Doehne Duckworth in Vermont. The chips are prepared and cooked by hand and are sold in resealable bags. The chips come in three flavours: Cheddar, Ranch and Sea Salt.
Darling Delicious is a retail store where new innovative food products can be tested. Darling Delicious can test products in two ways. They place them in their trend store in Groningen (The Netherlands) or add products to the Darling Delicious Gooddie Box, which is sent to (international) customers regularly. Testing and providing feedback is possible in different stages of the production process, from advice on ingredients to packaging design. Product developers can order samples in small amounts (200-500 pieces).
We discussed which products show up the most on social media, in all kind of shapes, flavours and colours, this year. The first product that read more
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