Wired Juice
November 30, 2004
Who will design tomorrow's Information Products and Services? It seems that I will.
My good friends at the Centre for Knowledege Societies in Bangalore, India are not afraid of connecting this image of a juice vendor to the concept of wiring up the street. The Nomadic Banquet morphogenetic meme is breeding since DoorsEast2!
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Recycle and Re-Use your Superfluous Spoon Collection
November 26, 2004
I just can't do it. I can't give away my superfluous spoon collection and my small liquid container collection. I know the rules for our Jewish-Occitanian (SinterKlaas) holiday require us to give presents that we have culled from our closets, recycled and re-used, but I just can't part with these beauties. No one else could possibly get as much joy from this collection as I do. Would anyone else carry a rainbow of plastic icecream spoons around with them for 6 months hoping to brighten an adhoc picnic?
Certainly considering the developing food-related projects that I am working on, owning these objects is justifiable.
Once I shared my spork with a friend and upon completing his icecream he threw his spork away! How could anyone confuse a spork with trash?
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Adam is the genuine article...
November 23, 2004
The very attentive Adam Kuban raced over on his, his, (whatever sort of motorcycle he's riding) to assure me that his weblog Slice is purely about offering the best possible pizza fieldguide and not about I-Pod applications, 'not that there's anything wrong with that...'
One lengthy browsie-browse later and I can't argue with him. Kuban has done his homework, meticulously logging it all onto his I-Pod (and generously sharing it with the world). I'd trust him to find me a slice. Take a peak at Slice or read an interview from the Gothamist about Adam. I have other questions that I prefer to ask in private first. ; )
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Pie-pod
November 22, 2004
Is it a blog about finding the best pizzas in NYC or a weblog designed to sell an I-pod application? The following text has been lifted from Slice, (a weblog built around an I-pod application) to help you buy the best pizza in New York. Hm.
piPod 1.2 is now available. (Download it at right.) Significant upgrades to ver. 1.0 include implementation of additional Browse-by-Neighborhood hierarchy within boroughs subsections. (Users who prefer browsing by pizzeria may still do so.)
Added functionality also includes cross-referenced linking among entries. Typo minimization was also deployed for this release; users of 1.0 will notice that you can now buy "pints" of sauce from Di Fara sted "points."
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The Year of the Hedgehog
November 18, 2004
Pictured above is a Chinese cookie with a happy little girl dancing next to an ignited stick of dynamite.
Boey says that my interpretations of the images on the Chinese cookies are all incorrect (see the June entries). The hedgehog turns out to be a monkey - from the Chinese zodiac, and the frog doesn't have fans in it mouth but coins - symbolising prosperity. Silly me.
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Latvian Master Baker
November 17, 2004
I'm living with Latvians again. This time Emils has brought wife/girlfriend Simone and its cosy as can be. They brought me some highly crafted rye bread from Riga. Normally the loaves are 50cm across, this loaf being a cute mini export version.
The bakery claims to be the 'only bakery in Latvia to have restored the ancestral Latvian national traditions...' I'm going to assume that's a Latvian to English translation glitch on the label.
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La Peche qui brule
November 16, 2004
That was the title of the smoldering peach course on that eventually sultry August evening. We placed the carmelised peaches on the pôts de creme au chocolate brulée. You can't eat one without eating the other.
And that's exactly what a French speaker would say, 'You can't heat one without heating the other.'
As with the previous slideshow, these photos are courtesy of Kristine Malden.
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The Banquet Years
Guess what we did last summer... we had a banquet!
Maybe because my last entry looked so pitiful, the colourful cakes and the leaden November sky. I thought it was high time to upload some images from this summer's culinary activities - and not just to some dank place in the culiblog archives.
As a community we ate off two, 8 metre long rolls of homemade pasta lasagna, into which sage and beet leaves had been pressed (see composite photo above) and when we were done, we rolled up the entire table.
Click for the slideshow here. The images in it are all photographs by Kristine Malden, a friend who thankfully was our guest that August evening.
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Aunti-Cakes, Anti-Cakes
November 15, 2004
Gawd they're pretty, these (fake) cakes from de Taart van mijn Tante (My Auntie's Cake/Recipe) displayed in the tea room of the patisserie on the Ferdinand Bolstraat in Amsterdam. My aunties, fabulous cooks and bakers though they are, wouldn't dream of baking such cakes, too much White Death (sugar). My aunties' cakes are more likely to be made with persimmons (kaki fruit). Homegrown persimmons.
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Sunday Tea, Fruit Boom
November 14, 2004
We can all use a bit more para so a visit to the Witte de With Paraeducation Department was the order of the day, this Sunday. The salon-format programme titled Facts of Chance (authored by artists Anne Schiffer, Marcel van den Berg, and Frank Koolen) was satisfying, like when the cookie tin stays open; an interesting collection of videos, slideshow, film and included a performance by Koolen. Pictured above is an inadvertent recipe featured in the slideshow titled Fruit Boom or in English, Fruit Tree. Now is that fruit + balance or fruit + skewer + time?
(images courtesy of Frank Koolen)
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The Wild Boar Thing
November 07, 2004
It was the leitmotif, right down to the marrow. For the 5th annual Museum Night (Museum N8 and pronounced Museum Nacht) Mediamatic hosted a salon including presentations by Esther Polak (locative media MILK), MIT's Kelly Dobson with her Blendie, (a blender that grinds to the gutteral), Henk Boverhoff's wild boar charcoal drawn dresses, Rob van Kranenburg's wild ideas, and the RE-launch (until you re-learn) of the Culiblog at it's BRAND NEW DOMAIN - right heah, right now, by the author of this very culinary weblog.
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Halalchisch
November 06, 2004
What's wrong with this image?
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Fade to Beige
What, you don't like my spork? It is designed by Pandora Design in Italy and is called Moscardino.
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Hash Shakes are sooooooooo passée
November 05, 2004
Well, what were You eating one and a half years ago?
Bhang Shake (serves 3)
Aditya and Arjun (not their real names) dosed me with the vivid high of this sublime hash milkshake one and a half year's ago.
What were we THINKING!!!
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Taking Cashew Cheese Seriously This Time
November 04, 2004
In my October 6th entry I report on buying R A W and how it made me nostalgic for the vegetarian classic, Laurel's Kitchen. I said I was going to take cashew cheese seriously these time and I am a woman of my word. Roxanne Klein's recipe calls for 'fermented bean water' but I just used kim chi (pickled cabbage) juice to sour the nut mash - worked great.
It's not called cheese because it tastes or feels anything like cheese - but it's really delicious, delicious enough to eat frequently. It will suffice for comfort food in these grim days.
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I'm too sad to tell you...
November 03, 2004
anything about food and cooking today. How can one think about food at a time like this? Aside from the compiled tragedies of murder and state institutionalised despicable practice in the Old Country, I just can't seem to stop eating vegan style since my fast... well, 'ceptin the milk in my coffee.
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