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Cookbooks We Crave

April 5, 2012 – 3:05 pm | Comments Off
modernist cuisine

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 …

Coffee Creation

March 19, 2012 – 6:38 pm | No Comment
coffee-stain-art

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 …

Fresh “Guacamole”

March 15, 2012 – 6:27 am | No Comment
stop motion, fresh guacamole

Watch director PES transform familiar objects into Fresh Guacamole. Mmmmm, nothing says “eat me” like diced dice….

Absolut Blank

January 24, 2012 – 9:11 am | No Comment
Absolut blank

ABSOLUT BLANK – a global creative movement, in which ABSOLUT appears as a catalyst for contemporary leading-edge creativity.

Kitchen Ink in Motion

November 29, 2011 – 6:41 pm | No Comment
artichoke tattoo, on arm from la weekly

Sectioned cows and pigs, forks and knives, eggs and bacon, kitchen equipment, pastries, pomegranates, leeks – whatever you can think of in and around food – is branded on some chef or butcher or front …

Licorice Flix

November 9, 2011 – 3:16 pm | One Comment

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 …

Where the Food is as Fresh as the Art

October 11, 2011 – 9:00 am | 2 Comments

Set in a hipster-laden neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Il Ballo del Mattone is a local hot spot where traditional Italian food is served up in an inspired, creative trattoria-like space. Run by the lovely and …

The Urban Grocer’s Top 5 Favorite Pop-Ups

August 26, 2011 – 8:26 am | One Comment
greenhouse by joost

Pop-ups, closed door restaurants, and underground eateries have been described as the “foodies equivalent of the Eighties rave.” And though there are countless amazing spots around the world in chef’s homes to the most unpredictable …

Playful Plating

July 29, 2011 – 7:49 am | No Comment

Paramodel is the creatively curious Japanese duo, Yasuhiko Hayashi and Yusuke Nakano, who share the same parallel vision: constructing intricate models of ‘paradise’ using toy parts such as plastic train tracks and mini-cars. In the …

Magnum Art. It’s Explosive

July 22, 2011 – 12:23 pm | 2 Comments
Screen shot 2011-07-22 at 2.16.45 PM

Stepping up their game from popsicles to physics, Magnum ice cream recently created a new forming process based around continuous extrusions that allows them to shape liquid in three dimensions. Confused? So are we. But …