San Francisco has begun to take steps to fight obesity among children. The board of the city used their veto, that is forbidden to give away free toys with food that contain high-calories, sugar and fat. This means that the Happy Meal as we know it today, is largely banned in San Francisco. Moreover, restaurants must serve fruits and vegetables to children with every meal.
On December 17th Landal Green Parks opens a new holiday parc on the slopes of the Winterberg. For the opening weekend, Landal was looking for four families who want to test the new accommodations. All expenses are paid by Landal and all you have to do this for free ski weekend is to install a pimp on your Hyves (Dutch social network). The campaign aims to increase Landal number of followers on Twitter and Hyves.
Griffins Steakhouse in Stockholm, Sweden is not your average steakhouse. The concept of this restaurant was designed by Stylt and is based on travelling, science and glamour. The imaginary host and his wife (the Griffins), give the restaurant something mysterious.
‘Home made’ by Yvette van Boven is crowned cookbook of the year 2010 in the category Dutch cookbooks. The jury unanimously chose Yvette van Boven. One of the other winners was ‘Master Chefs for Home Cooks’, this book won the audience award. Part of the profit of this cookbook goes to the World Food Program.
A new Japanese restaurant in the Indonesian capital Jakarta is almost entirely constructed outof bamboo sticks. The restaurant has an open character and visitors only protects against the sun and rain. The restaurant is made of bamboo because the owner is not sure of the success of the restaurant. If the restaurant turns out to be not as succesfull as needed the restaurant owner is able to let it dissappear easily.
In restaurant Haute Friture in Antwerp guests can enjoy eco-friendly fries and other dishes. The restaurant tries to minimize waste and is therefore uses a minimum of plastic and other packaging. Customers eat with wooden cutlery out of cardboard boxes. In addition, some meals are also served in compostable containers and palm thatch.
The Swiss Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts opens its first five star hotel in Ramallah on the Westbank. With the construction of this hotel, Mövenpick indicates that the former Palestinian conflict area is ready for tourism and business. The hotel is realized for the estimated amount of $ 40,000,000 with a total of 171 rooms, a swimming pool, fitness center, seven conference rooms and a luxurious restaurant and bar.
Urban Green is an initiative of the Dutch interior designer Mark van der Geest and focuses on urban residents. Urban Green offers a wide range of flowers, plants and accessories for balconies. Urban Green is also developing projects as green roofs and vertical gardens to appertment buildings. Currently there are only stores in Amsterdam but Urban Green hopes to open in 15 stores in Dutch cities.
On Saturday, October 30th, the most expensive bottles of wine were auctioned. They are three bottles of Chateau Lafite’s from 1869. The bottles auctioned seperately for the total sum of $230,000.= U.S. dollars. All three bottles were bought by an Asian bidder over the telephone.
With ‘wine flour’ you can make bread, pastas and sweets with a cabernet flavor. According to producer Marché Noir Foods, the gluten-free ‘grape powder’ is also sold in Europe. It is a gluten-free flour based on the peels of Canadian cabernet grapes. Rich in iron, fiber, vitamins and antioxidants. Recipes are available on their website.
Een Iphone concert in de New Yorkse metro. Het filmpje is al weer 3 miljoen keer gezien! Op de Food Inspiration Days in Eindhoven, dansende flashmobs gezien! Wanneer zien we de eerste flashmob bedacht door een restaurant? Wij hebben wel een aantal originele ideeën! Wil je weten welke? Volg ons op twitter, stuur een mail of DM.
The French canning company La Belle Iloise wants preserved fish to have a hip image by lanching several gift boxes. The gift boxes have names like Small Aperitif, Time for Soup and Lobster and Co.
These new egg rolls were elected at the Expo as the most remarkable product of 2010. Traditional mini spring rolls are redesigned and filled with exotic fruit. The taste can be recognized by the color, a red crust means strawberry flavor, yellow is pineapple and green is apple. Fritty the Fruity can be prepared in the oven or fryer.
Bigfish in Rotterdam, The Netherlands will set up his own pop-up restaurant. The location is still a secret. Bigfish organizes events, catering and sets up concepts like pop up restaurants. Reservations can be made online, and guests receive a password.
In a Chinese shopping center in Nanjing, visitors can buy a crab from a vending machine. The temperature inside the machine does not exceed 5 degrees. As a result the crabs continue in some kind of hibernation. When the crabs awaken when removed from the packacing.
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