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!)... by Nicola | Oct 17, 2012
What do you see when you map the world through food? IMAGE: Strips from five of the seventy-plus maps in Food: An Atlas. According to Food: An Atlas, a crowd-sourced, crowd-funded, “guerrilla cartography” project led by UC Berkeley professor Darin Jensen,... by Nicola | Oct 8, 2012
IMAGE: Mexico City street market captured by Google Earth, part of a set curated by urbanTick. Fabian Neuhaus of the blog urbanTick has assembled a collection of aerial images of Mexico City’s street markets, as captured by Google Earth. IMAGE: Mexico City... by Nicola | Oct 5, 2012
Inspired by Stephen Von Worley’s wonderful The Contiguous United States Visualized by Distance to the Nearest McDonalds, doctoral astronomy student Jim Davenport decided to map “not only how Starbucks were distributed across the USA […] but how we...