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Gourmet has an excellent guide to grilling greatness up.
My fav the open grill. You will have to sit through a bit of advertising but its worth it.
plate design and half solutions [utensils]
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Design has become something any one can do. I have done it and some of it is even good. But design recently seems to be focused on a solution to a problem that can be solved by, for example that brief respite you get by putting your drink down while you compose your self for an introduction. Or in the case of most of my friends dropping every thing but your drink and having a big hug and stuff.
Take this. Via Mike Davidson.
Its a great idea and a well thought out solution. Until you think “gee I have more than 5 friends” So if your BBQs run into figures that reach more like the 30s then you will be dropping some serious coin on these things. Does that make it bad design? Yes. If you disagree where do you put a beer, a water, a Pimms and ginger etc…? Its bad design. Here is another example.
The “to become one, table and seats” has two parts, the sack, which is formless, and the construction of the frame. By reinforcing each other the two parts become one. The sacks defy to form and play, just like the sand on the beach.
My comment was blocked for probably asking the obvious “the selection of materials does not seem right for something trying to associate with the beach” maybe those at dezeen have a better idea of what design is? But I don’t think so.
Here is another example
Via dezeen as well. The designer claims
Gillian Westley has created a range of cooking utensils that don’t leave a mess on worktops.
Assuming we are all cooking the same none de-script paste the above cook seems to be brewing up. Its not bad design but it is not good design either. I think I am going to coin it a “half solution to not a very real problem”.
Fancy a Root?
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I am immensely interested in how the opinions of a few shape the history of a substance. But something worth having will always find a way.
Ever wonder where root beer came from? Well, it used to be root tea, an alcoholic drink the settlers picked up from the Native Americans — but prohibition ended all of that, so it was drained of its alcohol and rechristened “root beer.” Now you can get a taste of the original, organic, and very alcoholic tea with Root ($39). Made from birch bark, black tea, spearmint, sugar cane, and other natural ingredients, every sip is like a step back in time.
Via Uncrate.
Vegetarians
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Its an ethical thing I don’t think humans should be treated like this
Via Nose to tail at home.
Noah Kalina Photography/Interiors
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An amazing portfolio of Restaurant interiors. There is a few horrors but mostly they are all spaces I would like to experience food and beverage in.
