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P. O. Bread Box
IMAGE: Damien Petit and his “Boîte A Pain,” photo by La Dépêche du Midi. Both natives and non-natives alike tend to agree that bread is central to French cuisine, history, and national identity. Indeed, Steven Kaplan, a Cornell University professor who has spent the past forty years studying French society through its bread, argues that, [...]
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How to Clone Mineral Water
Although the secret recipe for Coca-Cola is known to fewer people than the U.S. nuclear arsenal’s launch codes, there are other, more expensive fizzy drinks whose exact ingredient ratios are proudly revealed on every label. Helpfully, several websites have aggregated this information into searchable databases, so that you can easily find the total dissolved solids in [...]
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Smell-designing Sheffield
IMAGE: Victoria Henshaw’s Sheffield smell walk, mapped. Regular Edible Geography readers will know that smellscapes are a recurring subplot of this blog — a diversion that I justify on the basis that roughly ninety percent of what we perceive as taste is actually smell. For the most part, the built environment consists of accidental and [...]
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Cake Bruise
Artist/pastry-chef Victoria Yee Howe is in the final days of a residency in the kitchen of Arabica Lounge in Seattle, where she has been creating avant-garde dessert specials two times a week, as well as planning a grand closing party of multisensory stimulation.* IMAGE: Six bruises, six cakes; art and photo by Victoria Yee-Howe. In [...]
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How Wine Became Metropolitan: An Interview with David Gissen
IMAGE: The Metro Wine Map of France, designed by David Gissen. David Gissen is usually known as an architectural theorist whose publications (including a blog, and Subnature, a book I highly recommend) explore peripheral, denigrated, or otherwise overlooked aspects of urban nature — puddles, smog, and weeds — in order to re-imagine the relationship between [...]
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Week One at Studio-X NYC: Participatory Sensing, Invasive Species, and the Geologic City
Those of you who follow me on Twitter may have already caught this snippet of news, but I’m delighted to announce that Geoff Manaugh (of BLDGBLOG) and I have recently been appointed as co-directors of Studio-X NYC, which is the Lower Manhattan outpost of a global network launched by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, [...]
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Sandwiches and the Sectional Quality of Sacred Space
While I was writing about Scandybars yesterday, I kept thinking that I had read something interesting about the relationship between sandwiches and the architectural cross section not too long ago. As usual, my prematurely senescent memory refused to offer up any more information, but then, as I packed up boxes of books in preparation for [...]
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Cross-sectional Chocolate
IMAGE: A scanned Lion bar, invented by Allan Norman for Rowntree’s, and first introduced in 1977, in Dorset, image via Scandybars. Food photography is having a cross-sectional moment. From graphic designer Jon Chonko’s scanwiches — sandwiches, cut in half and scanned for “education and delight” — to Nathan Myrhvold’s hi-tech cutaways, we are increasingly able [...]
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The Art and Reward of Penguin Charming