Cheese packaging stinks. And it's not just because it's wrapped around a nice aged blue. It seems that when other foodstuffs were getting a much-needed revamp, they forgot all about cheese. Everyone except Marinde van Leeuwen of DesignKAAS. Inspired by…
Continue Reading →To promote their beer in Sao Paulo, Stella Artois is leaning away from straightforward marketing and pushing a new concept called Stella Artois N'Box. Running now through Feb. 19, Stella is offering exclusive, luxury experiences inside a shipping container stationed…
Continue Reading →We love cake like fat kids love cake. Seriously. And since we also love video games, our slightly-improved waistline (thanks, New Year's resolutions!) is giving us the evil eye for checking out these geeky cakes and cupcakes compiled by Larissa…
Continue Reading →Fair trade, dark, cherry, milk, mocha"”no matter your chocolate preference, winning a year's worth would be little short of lovely. Bridge Brands Chocolate's current contest is soliciting 600-word essays about ways that the treat (or the necessity, depending upon whom…
Continue Reading →We love bringing people together. Employees and employers, husbands and wives, and graphic artists and small wineries... We recently got an e-mail from Dave Potter at Municipal Winemakers thanking us for cluing him in to Brooklyn artist Jon Stetzen, who…
Continue Reading →After Oprah endorsed açai -- the Amazonian berry that's making a sensation on the grocery aisles and likely in your tummies in your part of the world right now -- it was only inevitable that cachaça, the Brazilian rum made…
Continue Reading →Reader poll: How many of you had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch? Did you make your own peanut butter? You can with the Peanut Butter Machine. It accepts all different kind of nuts, and if you haven't…
Continue Reading →Normally we would say that weaponry and drinks don't mix but there are those unforeseen events in which you might feel the need to call in the heavy artillery. For refreshment aficionados looking to add an arctic blast to their…
Continue Reading →With a few locations around Tokyo, Uoshins is my new favorite Japanese sushi spot. It's affordable, incredibly fresh (fish is laid out on ice when you walk in) and casual. The location I went to in Nogizaka is an old…
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