It was the evening when Venus and Jupiter were perfectly aligned and reached its closest point to the human eye. I was getting ready for dinner with the “godfather” of American avant-garde cinema – Jonas Mekas. Filmmaker, poet and curator, Mekas is a living monument. He fled his native Lithuania at age 22, trying to [...]
Category Archives: Food
Sugar On Your Tongue
November 10, 2011 – 12:03 pm
First it was cupcakes. Then it was ice cream, followed by macarons. But the latest trend in desserts, namely the lowly popsicle, reaches its apex with these delicious-looking concoctions by Stoyn, a Russian “independent ambient advertising agency” based just outside of Moscow. The group describes these brilliant popsicles as a “design experiment” made in Russia [...]
Sweet As Sugar
August 15, 2011 – 3:54 pm
The University of California, Berkeley’s School of Journalism is currently working on a project to redesign the nutrition facts food label affixed to prepackaged foods across the country. The competition is informal, but the visual concepts presented may make their way into the US Food and Drug Administration’s current revamping of the label and its [...]
Happy Easter!
April 4, 2010 – 2:01 pm
I had no idea, probably because I am partial to the Cadbury Creme Egg but Easter Peeps are kind of a thing. The website seriouseats has tons of different ideas for what to do with the little buggers such as deep fried-peeps, homemade peeps and my favorite, peepshi. (Peeps + Sushi= Peepshi.) Also equally amazing, The [...]
Chocolate & I
February 8, 2010 – 11:31 pm
February is way cooler than January. Yeah, it is freezing, but it is the shortest month and it comes just after everyone has done their New Year exercise-binging and swearing off carbs and alcohol and all that, which means it is time to eat chocolate. Today is the first day of Chocolate and I, a [...]
The Wright at the Guggenheim
December 10, 2009 – 8:00 am
Tuesday night the Guggenheim opened it’s new restaurant, The Wright, for a press preview. Andre Kikoski’s design takes its form from the mother structure, draping the 1,600-sq-foot room in clean layered curves. Enlivening this is a sculpture of mod-colored aluminum bars by Liam Gillick, which gives a vivid, linear counterpoint to the swerving walls. Gillick’s [...]
Apartamento in Tokyo
November 3, 2009 – 6:19 am
The editorial team of Apartamento – an “everyday life interiors magazine” from Spain – is currently in Japan, and just finished hosting a series of lunch sessions called “tasca, everyday life recipes” in Tokyo. The sessions were held in the art bookstore Utrecht, where the magazine just launched their fourth issue. For five days, the [...]
Culinary Love: Le Fooding d’Amour Paris-New York
September 25, 2009 – 11:05 am
I’ve long believed that Paris and New York are jealous lovers-mutually obsessed, covetous, but still fiercely stubborn and, ultimately, true only to themselves. Nowhere is this dynamic more apparent than in the kitchen, where American innovation has borrowed from (and then challenged) the French standard that has dominated for so long. This Friday and Saturday [...]
Last Supper Festival at 3rd Ward
September 24, 2009 – 3:05 pm
This Saturday, September 26th, 3rd Ward in Bushwick will be hosting the fifth annual Last Supper Festival. There will be 13 bands, 13 short films, 13 dishes and 7 bands and djs. Go to the festival’s website for the full lineup and more info.
