2011 Archive

  • Taste bud trickery
    Q&A • 16 Nov 11
    Swapping pots and pans for lasers and liquid nitrogen, Maciek Dubla chats to Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche about the benefits of food replication. >
  • Chillies ward off elephants
    Design News • 16 Nov 11
    In rural parts of Africa, chillies are being used to keep elephants off cultivated land while also providing an income for the subsistence farmers. >
  • Pork neck with bulrushes, violets and malt. From Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine. Photo by Ditte Isager. Courtesy of Phaidon Press, www.phaidon.com
    René Redzepi + Marije Vogelzang
    Dialogues • 16 Nov 11
    Marije Vogelzang chats to René Redzepi of Noma Restaurant about MAD Foodcamp, creativity, intuition, fingers, social media and being part of the future. >
  • Foraging in 4'33
    Opinion • 16 Nov 11
    The notion of picking one’s own food, especially in urban areas, can seem absurd. Elizabeth Thacker Jones follows “The Wildman” Steve Brill around New York. >
  • Photo by Sven Benjamins.
    Peace meal
    Hot Topic • 16 Nov 11
    Can food bring about world peace? At least it can initiate understanding: Kamal Mouzawak, Merijn Tol, Shir Halpern and Nadia Zerouali recount their experiences. >
  • The Hungry City by Carolyn Steel
    Food city
    Opinion • 16 Nov 11
    Food urbanist Carolyn Steel argues that cities, like people, are what they eat. She explains how food shapes the cities in which which we live. >
  • Smart art of eating
    Opinion • 16 Nov 11
    Control freaks will be reluctant to hear Brian Wansink explaining how we think we’re a lot smarter than we are when it comes to food. >
  • The bull is not dead
    Q&A • 16 Nov 11
    Although the elBulli restaurant has closed, Ferran Adrià is only just getting started. He talks to us about the future, broadening his audience and creativity. >
  • Paola Antonelli + Marion Nestle
    Paola Antonelli + Marion Nestle
    Dialogues • 16 Nov 11
    Paola Antonelli and Marion Nestle discuss the problems with the current food system and how creatives are interpreting this. >
  • Food fight: Dan Ariely
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    Behavioural economist Dan Ariely shows that we can all design our eating habits if we understand our environment. >
  • Food fight: Amy Franceschini
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    “Food must not be a weapon”, Amy Franceschini calls on Via Campesina’s seven principles of food sovereignty. >
  • Food fight: Jesper Johansson
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    Jesper Johansson wonders if we can somehow be excited about certain foods running out, forcing us to try something new. >
  • Food fight: Marcel Dicke
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    Entomologist Marcel Dicke promotes the idea that instead of mammals, we should be eating insects. >
  • Food fight: Christien Meindertsma
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    Knowing what we eat is important for Dutch product designer Christien Meindertsma. >
  • Food fight: Shin-ichi Takemura
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    Shin-ichi Takemura says we should rather be talking about being “creative” than “sustainable" in terms of the environment. >
  • Food fight: Peter Reinhart
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    Acclaimed American baker and teacher, Peter Reinhart gives his opinion about whether foodies are gluttons. >
  • Food fight: Laetitia Wolff
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    Laetitia Wolff believes that technology, synthetic food and GM should not be written off. >
  • Food fight: Sita Bhaumik
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    It boggles artist Sita Bhaumik’s mind that contemporary famines are manmade. >
  • Food fight: Anna Maria Orru
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    Anna Maria Orru imagines a resilient food culture inspired by nature’s way of organising itself. >
  • Food fight: Anne Mieke Eggenkamp
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    Design Academy Eindhoven’s Anne Mieke Eggenkamp believes we don’t eat insects because of what it sounds like. >
  • Food fight: Frank Tjepkema
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    Product designer Frank Tjepkema believes that as a consumer, you are responsible for the way the food you eat is produced. >
  • Food fight: Janina Loeve
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    Janina Loeve believes that food is more significant to our social life and identity than health. >
  • Food fight: Kim O’Donnel
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    Author of The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook, Kim O’Donnel thinks we should all be making more time to cook. >
  • Food fight: Bruce Nussbaum
    Design News • 15 Nov 11
    Designomics advocate Bruce Nussbaum sees food as the heart of cutting-edge design. >

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