Italian photographer Fulvio Bonavia has some amazing photographs compiled for his book “A Matter of Taste” combining fashion and food. Words won’t do it justice. Take a look at the photos, using food to create fashion accessories and products...
January 31, 2011
火鍋 (huǒ guō) Hot pot
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| the Hot pot way of cooking |
Hot pot consists of a simmering metal pot of stock at the center of the dining table. While the hot pot is kept simmering, raw ingredients are placed into the pot and cooked at the table. Typical hot pot dishes include thinly sliced meat, vegetables, mushrooms and seafood.
Vegetarian and vegan stamp
"Crudo o cotto?" "Gran biscotto!"
This commercial signed by Rovagnati, an italian brand wich produces ham, built up in 2000 his main slogan with this question: "Cooked or raw?" and every customer of the supermarket used to reply just "Granbiscotto!". This commercial marked that period, and still now we can find parodies of the Rovagnati's commercial on You Tube...
"Raw and cooked foods must not be stored together"
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| safety sign and magnets Incorrect storage of food can cause spoilage and food poisoning. Food should be kept below 5°C or above 60°C to avoid the 'temperature danger zone', where bacteria multiply fastest. High risk with food includes meat, poultry, eggs, smallgoods, dairy products, cooked rice, pasta and prepared salads. It is best not to refreeze food which has been frozen and thawed once. Store raw food separately from cooked food. |
On the net it's available to buy also magnets and safety signs for fridges and freezers.
Cintura di Orione: a new cooking style
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| Alessi's Cintura di Orione |
For cooking lovers, the italian brand Alessi created in 1996 a new pot set, designed by Richard Sapper with the advice of the chef Alberto Gozzi. This set is intended for a particular target, very cultured and demanding, expert in cooking. The Cintura di Orione is actually considered as the most advanced pot set ever. It includes different pot in specifical materials to obtain optimal performances: cast iron for long preparation, copper and steel for a better heat run, aluminum for high performances. This project take advantage from the cooking know-how of chefs, designers, castronomers and health autorities!
January 26, 2011
Hindu religion
In the Hindu religion after the deaht of some family members, in the next day is use to prepare only dish with raw food e they drink only water
Pepsi Raw: "do it naturally" campaign
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| the Pepsi Raw advertising campaign |
Pepsi has decided to try preserve the health of conscious people of the world with it’s newest Pepsi product, Pepsi Raw. The fizzy caramel cola that we all know, is losing the artificial ingredients which, instead, have been replaced by apple extract, coffee leaf, cane sugar, and sparkling water. This change will also drop the drink anywhere from 10-30 calories.
The advertising campaign has been realized by the photographer Nadav Kander, an internationally very-known photographer.
Yanko design, intelligent egg
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| Intelligent egg with a soft cooking |
It's a method thought if you have a problems with the cooking of the egg. On the hull of the egg there is a thermochromatic hank that reacts to the increase of temperature. With this tecnology eggs communicate in real time his level of cooking with different tonalities.
This project is made by Yanko Design.
This project is made by Yanko Design.
Raw milk cheese - Fromages au lait cru
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| Reblochon fermier, a typical cheese "au lait cru" |
Generally, we can say that milk pass through a pasteurization process when the temperature overcomes 38° C. Heating it to that temperature, pathogenic microbes are destroyed.
The mention "au lait cru" (literally in English "raw cheese") is reserved for French cheese made with milk which temperature did't increase beyond 38° C.
Raw design
Raw design is a movement that return at the origin of the material. It's a concept associated with new ecological sustanaibility.
Obect with raw material and imperfect texture , also the forms are primitive.
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| Pane Paanpati(bread chairs) - Enoc Armengol |
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| Autarchy( bread object) - Formafantasma |
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| Cooked table(plane in assembled cooked bricks) - Fratelli Campana |
Celsius and his scale
Celsius is a scale and unit of measurement for temperature. It is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who developed a similar temperature scale two years before his death. The degree Celsius (°C) can refer to a specific temperature on the Celsius scale as well as a unit to indicate a temperature interval, a difference between two temperatures or an uncertainty. The unit was known until 1948 as centigrade.
ABC of cooked-raw
B as Biscuit*
C as Carpaccio
D as Dace**
E as Egg
F as Fire
G as Grill
H as Ham
I as Iron
J as Jam
K as Kettle
L as Lévi-Strauss
M as Meat
N as Noodles***
O as Oyster
P as Pressure cooker
Q as Quiche
R as Roastbeef
S as Sushi
T as Tartare
U as Uncooked
V as Vegetables
W as Water (distilled)
X as Xuan paper****
Y as Yolk
Z as Zabaione
*Biscuit, literally "bis-cuit", means "cooked twice".
**Since the dace is ariver-fish, it has to be cooked because it could be toxic.
*** Noodles are a particular kind of pasta. Usually people consume it not exactly cooked but simply boiled in meat or Vegetable stock.
**** Is a particular kind of paper, wich can be both raw and cooked.
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