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Your Local Shops, Delivered: Hubbub
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. Once upon a time, these guys ruled. Then came super markets and giant super markets and now, somehow – in a welcomed twist of fate – we’re circling …
Eat My Chair!
It’s hard to obey your mother’s wishes to not play with your food when cheeky new kitchen tools seem to pop-up everyday. So what have they thought of next? Only the most adorable mini furniture …
Cookbooks We Crave
At the start of the week, we featured an amazing cookbook that turns into lasagna like magic. It had me thinking about all the incredible, visually striking cookbooks we’ve showcased on The Urban Grocer. So …
An Edible Cookbook
Forget my love letters to coffee table cookbooks brimming with stunning photos. They have *nothing* on this: An edible cookbook. Yes, edible. Where plain old paper usually lies, here there are fresh sheets of pasta. …
Coffee Creation
Some people paint with acrylic paint, others use oil, and then there are people that simply take what’s left of their day to day beverage and create beautiful art with it. At least, that’s what …
Sugar Shack (Or, Where Maple Syrup is King)
March. If you’re lucky enough to live in the maple belt, March can mean only one thing: the sugaring-off season has begun. And if maple syrup = pancakes, then it’s time you met Martin Picard. …
Urban Dining: City Plates
Traverse the winding roads of Rome with your penne. Jump across the East River with your pie. Take a tour of Tokyo with your rice. No we’re not delusional, we’re just totally hooked on …
Rub My Buddha Jelly: Il Buddino
With the recent jelly craze raging abroad, it seemed inevitable that someone would endeavour to bring it home to us closet jellymongers and wannabe gastro artists the world over. Luckily Milan’s crafty Nobody & Co …
Is That A Banana In Your Ear?
A true foodie sees a wonderful meal in unexpected places be it a street cart or a cityscape made of jello. Now, you can add ears to that list (and we’re not talking corn…). From …
Licorice Flix
Like Red Vines at the movies? Then you’ll Red Vine portraits of the movies. Enter Licorice Flix. From artist Jason Mecier comes this tasty collection of edible movie mosaics composed entirely of – that’s right …
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