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Eat me

segd — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:30:14 +0000

“Here is The Futureheads V Miss Cakehead ‘The Chaos’ cookie installation for Cake Britain – the world’s first totally edible art exhibition supported by Tate & Lyle (and an event from The Mad Artists Tea Party).” — A.M.

Years of googling “cake” and “design” finally pay off

segd — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:16:48 +0000

“Six works are in the running to win a position at what has now become one of Britain’s most famous art displays on the London square’s fourth plinth.

Brian Griffiths has designed an enormous Battenberg, the pink and yellow cake created to commemorate Queen Victoria’s granddaughter Princess Victoria marrying Prince Louis of Battenberg in 1884. It will be made from vintage and contemporary hand-made bricks.” — A.M.

This gives “chicken sandwich” a whole new meaning

segd — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:37:09 +0000

SEGDster Jill Ayers found this rare example of food and crafting combined: embroidered bread. Click here for a naughtier version of the same uncommon combo. — A.M.

Milk chocolate, macadamia nuts, toffee, caramel, and jimmies please

segd — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:59:17 +0000

Google “how many kinds of candy are there?” The answers range from 83 to a hundred million. Add one more to the list by creating your own candy bar. — A.M.

Food, on a roll

segd — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:05:37 +0000

“Food trucks, the next step up the evolutionary ladder from the traditional sidewalk food cart (trucks are generally larger, more tricked-out, and self-propelled), aren’t exactly new. Trucks serving pizza or halal chicken and rice have fed midtown office workers and outer-borough revelers for years. What is new is the elevation of the form—the quality, variety, and sheer number of the things have never been greater.”

Thanks to Jill Ayers for the tip on this entry! Join her for a pizzacone. — A.M.

Keep calm and wobble on

segd — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:59:48 +0000

Sadly, you’ve missed yet another opportunity to enter the annual Jell-O Mold Competition. On the brighter side, that gives you a full year to come up with a winner like the one below. Yes, those “glasses” are made of Jell-O. — A.M.

Digital cookies

segd — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:50:45 +0000

“Designer Mike Clare has taken the AR phenomenon to a new level with these DIY cookies that can be digitally viewed. The cookies are made with standard dough in two colours making it possible to create a small grid for coding. The dough is rolled out and made into long square stripes that can be stacked into the desired configuration. Once all the dough is stacked it can be cut into slices and backed. The final cookies come out of the over ready to eat. However once viewed through a digital camera they have a completely new life as AR markers. In this case, Clare added a simple colourful asterisks on top, kind of like digital icing.” — L.G.D.

It’s time to play…Wheel! Of! Nutrition!

segd — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:49:58 +0000

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Behaviorial economists are gaga for the idea of ‘nudges’–tiny little hacks that can help people make better decisions. For example: Making 401k’s opt-out rather than opt-in can wildly increase savings rates. Simply moving a salad bar can increase veggie consumption by 250%.

So it makes sense that a dinner-plate design could help us eat a far healthier diet.” — A.M.

Light up the night

segd — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:25:26 +0000

“Sometimes with vodka it’s about what is in the bottle but what is on the outside can also be pretty interesting too. Medea vodka is a single-distilled wheat-based vodka from Holland but what makes it distinctive is a bottle with a programmable LED display that can hold up to six different messages each with 255 characters.” — A.M.

Yummy student project

segd — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:15:34 +0000

“For the last few years, (teacher) Doyle Geddes has wanted to create the world’s largest reproduction of a master painting. Using two tons of breakfast cereal, that dream became reality Saturday with a re-creation of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” that covered an area 72 feet by 90 feet.” – A.M.