‘Home Made Winter’ Recipes
Winter Cocktail In a cocktail shaker, shake the vodka with the ice cream, the orange zest and the cranberry juice. Pour into a cocktail glass. Leave it to stand for a minute, allowing the froth to...
View ArticleReady for Renewal
In the past, healthy eating was a compar tmentalized par t of our lives.Today, it’s integrated.This monumental shift has come from many different instigators. In recent years, health has become more...
View ArticleBread Doesn’t Wait for You
A thursday in January, cold, windy and rainy – 7.30 PM, I entered the Bien Cuit Bakery in Brooklyn, New York. It is on 120 Smith Street. An authentic street in an upcoming area. This is an article...
View ArticleWhy Painting is the 21st Century Art
In a time when we get bombarded with perfect (and often photoshopped) imagery every day, we seem to have lost contact with what’s really there: the human touch. We see it in all kinds of disciplines;...
View ArticleFood Feeds Political Engagement
It’s hustling and bustling on the third floor of an Amsterdam high rise near the World Trade Centre. No less than three organizations moved into the building of the former Premsela (Design) Institute...
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How to live longer
To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world’s “Blue Zones”, communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. In his talk, he shares the 9...
View ArticleHow much food can you buy for $5 around the world
This is a cool little video by BuzzFeed that show’s how much food $5 can get you in various countries. While the results are not exactly shocking, (i.e. you can get a lot more food for $5 in Ethiopia...
View ArticleFood defines our behaviour
Emilie Baltz, is a French-American designer, photographer and artist. She was a speaker at the PSFK CONFERENCE 2013. Her L.O.V.E Foodbook explores the definition of food and its relation with emotion....
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The new magazine (digital) is ready!
Issue #34 is about Interdependency - in-ter-de-pend-ence [in-ter-di-pen-duhns] – what does that mean? It is about humanity, nature, technology – art and science; about fashion, design, mobility and...
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POP-UP URBAN MICROFARMS
There’s been enough horsing around with our food, and more than ever before, people in cities want honest food that is affordable, locally produced and sustainably grown. Yet we also need to be able...
View ArticleConsidering the Irrational
Let’s try looking at the world through different eyes. Perhaps we might choose a black panther, or a magpie, a crow, a goldfish even. It is about looking at the world without profit motif, but with...
View ArticleA Farmer Story
Food security is a much debated topic. A key player in the whole ‘seed to feed’ chain is surprisingly underexposed: the farmer. Surprising because farmers produce our food, today and tomorrow, for us,...
View ArticleWould Like to Meet Bilder & De Clercq
It’s a sunny weekend-about-town and I know just the place to go to for the freshest, tastiest ingredients and treats which, on the rare occasions when I’m not travelling and am ‘in residence’, I like...
View ArticleHow Can we Create (Collective) Independence?
Community and the power of the collective is still a force to be reckoned with across all aspects and sectors of society – from Flash mob events andYouTube sensations to crowdsourcing initiatives and...
View ArticleBiotopian Trialogue
With 2013 as the dawn of a new era, slowly but surely we see the contours of a new world appearing. Where we previously talked of a complex, multi-layered reality with a fourth and even a fifth...
View ArticleFood Delivery Drones
Unless there are several ethical and juridical constraints, the possibilities of drones in the commercial world are endless. How long will it take before drones are usable for commercial purposes?...
View ArticleShopping List 2030
MY SHOPPING LIST IN 2030: • FOR MY 3D FOOD PRINTER 1 Protein Cartridge Algae CARTRIDGE ALGAE 2 Protein Cartridge Bug 1 Chocolate Cartridge …….. This article is published in the book Second Sight #35...
View Article‘Insects’ Future Food
It is expected that by 2050, 50-70% of the world population will be living in urban areas. The World Wildlife Fund says that in 1986 the number of humans alive reached Earth’s natural carrying...
View ArticleRural Entrepreneurs
In 2013 De Rabobank published the book The Future of Farming – The rise of the rural entrepreneur about the global food security topic. We had a discussion with Edwin van Raalte, co-author of the book...
View ArticleCybernated Farms
Douglas Mallette, a former system engineer at a Space Shuttle program at NASA, decided to start a complete new farm of the future. The company is called Cybernated Farm Systems. While meeting him, we...
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