by Nicola | Oct 31, 2012
Just in time for those of you planning to head out trick-or-treating tonight, architect and planner Paul L. Knight and his colleague Kevin Clark have conducted a series of analyses of the impact of urban design on your sugar haul. IMAGE: Conley Creek Subdivision,... by Nicola | Oct 27, 2012
IMAGE: The Marshall strawberry, via Leah Gauthier’s pop-up shop. It is “the finest eating strawberry in America.” It is “exceedingly handsome, splendidly flavored, pleasantly sprightly, aromatic and juicy.” In fact, it was once “the... by Nicola | Oct 22, 2012
Readers may remember the story of the endangered cake museum, a unique but homeless collection showcasing examples of piping, icing, sugar work, and other edible decorative techniques, from a post on Edible Geography earlier this year. IMAGE: Cakes from the Kuyper... by Nicola | Oct 21, 2012
A new post on BLDGBLOG shows Eric Valli’s incredible photographs of men hunting for edible bird’s nests in the caves of Thailand, using a terrifyingly flimsy-looking assemblage of bamboo trellises, rattan ladders, and industrial nylon rope. IMAGE: From the... by Nicola | Oct 19, 2012
IMAGE: Urine wheel from Epiphanie Medicorum, Ullrich Pinder (1506), via Oscillator. Over at Oscillator, synthetic biologist Christina Agapakis (who will be speaking at Foodprint LA, and whom I had the pleasure of interviewing yesterday — of which, more in due course!)...