by Nicola | Oct 26, 2009
Back in August, Edible Geography tried to imagine what other shapes meat might take, if it were freed from the deeply ingrained socio-cultural traditions of meat preparation. The ensuing comments expressed a nostalgia for lost meat diagrams, and also directed me to... by Nicola | Oct 19, 2009
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Or, “Consume a variety of nutrient-dense foods and beverages within and among the basic food groups while choosing foods that limit the intake of saturated and transfats, cholesterol, added sugars, salt, and... by Nicola | Oct 14, 2009
All images are from Consumables, a project by artist Boo Chapple, with photography by Bo Wong. The other week, Pia Ednie-Brown, editor of the recently released book Plastic Green: Designing Bio-spatial Futures, sent in a copy of Consumables, a pamphlet by artist Boo... by Nicola | Oct 9, 2009
[NOTE: This interview is part of a series of announcements, interviews, updates, and posts related to the “Landscapes of Quarantine” design studio that Edible Geography and BLDGBLOG are co-leading this autumn in NYC. To find earlier Landscapes of... by Nicola | Oct 7, 2009
Truffles, I once read, used to be abundant and cheap enough to appear on almost every page in a cookbook intended for the lower and middle classes. In nineteenth-century France, truffles were regarded as an everyday food, rather than an elusive, expensive, and... by Nicola | Oct 6, 2009
This autumn in New York City, Edible Geography and BLDGBLOG have teamed up to lead an 8-week design studio focusing on the spatial implications of quarantine; you can read more about it here. For our studio participants, we have been assembling a course pack full of...