Become the neighbourhood chef

14-10-2010

Tweetjemee an online marketplace for chefs and people who enjoy food, launched October 10th. Local chefs can start their own ‘webtaurant’ on www.tweetjemee.nl. The idea is that you cook a number of meals and then sell them online to people in your neighborhood. People pay through www.tweetjemee.nl, the amateur-chefs each receive 70% of their sales, 10% goes to The Hunger Project and the rest of the money goes the website to improve the platform.

Chivas Regal 18 Year Old by Christian Lacroix

13-10-2010

Fashion designer Christian Lacroix designed a special bottle for the 18 Year Old Limited edition by Chivas Regal.The bottle has the famous Chivas shape, but was inspired by French jacquard style for this special occasion. The Chivas Regal 18 Year Old is for sale from November in a limited number of stores for $ 495,=.

 

Moet & Chandon Bar Bou

13-10-2010

The Bar Boy, symbolizing the 60’s has had a facelift by Moët & Chandon. This Boy Bar consists of three parts, the lower part where the bottles are cooled, the middle part which has room for four glasses and the upper compartment whoch has room for accessories. On the outside the Bar Boy finished with a black lacquer and inside is finished with leather.

Red Bull Mobile

12-10-2010

Red Bull introduces telecom services in dozens of countries around the world. To attract customers potential customers receive exclusive reports and videos on their phone of several extreme sports. In Austria, Hungary and Switzerland, Red Bull Mobile already operates. The plan is to operate in 140 countries. Whether Red Bull Mobile will also be inrtoduced in The Netherlands remains unknown.

Kochhause makes cooking easy

12-10-2010

Kochhaus in Berlin makes buying ingredients and getting inspiration for cooking easy. The shop put down ready-made dishes at different places in the store, with the ingredeients necessary to make the dish right beside it. Finding the right ingredients belongs to the past.

Funkin Cocktail Mixer

12-10-2010

The French company Huitième Monde launched the innovative Funkin Cocktail Mixer. Making a 100% natural cocktail with help from this mixer is easy, you only need to add the corresponding liqueur to the cocktail. The Funkin Cocktail Mixer can be used for 16 different cocktails with or without alcohol.

Sake climate cabinet

11-10-2010

After the cabinets for wine and chocolate there’s also a climate cabinet for Japanese sake. Since this drink can be consumed both hot (38 C °) and cold (at 5 C °) the cooler has wide temperature range. The cabinet has a capacity of 40 bottles and the temperature is easily controlled with the touch buttons on top of the cabinet.

Papri, a must have for every hotel

11-10-2010

The Papri is a double-sided door hanger with ‘do not disturb’ on one sideand and a checklist for housekeeping on the other side. On the checklist guests indicate what work they want done. It provides a green and more efficient management and better communication with the guest. Since the checklist is marked with erasable ink, the card is reusable. This makes the Papri not only guest, but also environmentally friendly.

The Vegetarian Butcher

10-10-2010

On Monday October 11th the vegetarian butcher opens its doors in The Hague (The Netherlands). Customers can buy several innovative and tasty meat substitutes. The vegetarian butcher also offers several lupine-based products as a sustainable alternative to meat.

First Twitter cookbook

10-10-2010

Almost every day the Irish home cook Maureen Evans publishes a recipe on her twitter account @cookbook. Evans currently has just over 35,000 followers to try her recipes at home. Because the messages on twitter may only be 140 characters long Evans uses abbreviations. Thus s + p for salt and pepper. The dishes Evans publishes vary from noodles to biscotti.

Lookotels introduces eco-friendly low budget hotels

10-10-2010

The Spanish chain Lookotels will build several sustainable low-budget hotels, each with 100 rooms. The rooms are prefabricated modules and offer a bed, tv, desk and chair, a telephone, airconditioning, wifi and a bathroom. By integrating a self-service check-in system personnel costs are being saved.

5 for 5 pop-up cafe in London

9-10-2010

Innocent, known for their smoothies, offers people in London a dinner for £ 5,= called ‘five a day’ to achieve the daily dose of fruit and vegetables. Customers can choose between 2 different starters, 3 main courses and 2 desserts. The meals are composed by chef Gizzi Erskine. The meals are nutricious enough to reach the daily recommed amount of fruit and vegetables

Sting opens farmshop

9-10-2010

Popstar Sting had plans to open a farm shop on an estate (Il Palagio) near Florence. The shop will offer organic products such as honey, olive oil, wine and salami. At the moment, Il Palagio offers yoga classes.  

Farm to table delivery service

8-10-2010

The American real estate company The Albanese Organization offers her employees fresh products from the local farmer, hoping the employees will live more healthy. Two times aweek, a mobile shop comes by and offers different products such as fruits, vegetables and meat.    

Beer is only brewed at full moon

8-10-2010

The newest beer of the Belgian brewery Caulier, called ‘Paix Dieu Pleine Lune’, will be brewed only at full moon. The position of the moon is better for the fermentationproces. This white beer contains 10% alcohol. Besides the unique way of brewing, Caulier also offers a sugar free beer.

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