Food and Drink

Lord Byron once said, "Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after". Conrad Engelhardt, a London-based artist, has certainly taken that advice to heart with his stunning wine-inspired mosaics made entirely out of corks. Wine and women indeed....

Coffee makes the world go 'round, and it would be a massive understatement to say that American society can't live without their caffeine fix. But, most coffee chains do not accomodate the need for coffee drinkers to be highly caffeinated 24/7 either. While it may not yet be a thbusiness structure on this continent, Tel Aviv has introduced a coffee chain that is working hard to keep caffeine addicts fueled and ready for their next fix.

The limited edition, anodized aluminum, Icemania “iSpoon” from Japan's Akao Aluminum can handle the hardest, coldest ice cream around! Priced around $25 each, the super-duper scooper includes a custom carrying pouch ideal for those late night visits to Zyggie's Ice Cream Parlor.

If there are two things that pretty much everyone loves on some level they are cookies and dinosaurs. This is especially true of kids. WIth Dig-Ins you can bring these two things together and make dinosaur cookies. You can also make your choice between decorating them to be living dinosaurs or just a bunch of old fossils.

Calling all pasta-holics! As you know it can be tough making sure that you make just the right amonut of pasta to go with your favorite sauce. Every kitchen can also use a bit of whimsy and this cute tool for measuring out your spaghetti, angel hair, or linguini will really get that done.

Date rape is a serious issue, and it affects people of all ages and both genders. For the past couple of decades, women have been warned about the risks of leaving their drinks unattended at parties and bars. The result of not closely guarding a drink could be an unpleasant drug trip, and undesired sexual relations. While women can of course try and keep an eye on their beverages, those that really want to find a way to slip a date rape drug into a drink have developed sneaky ways of accomplishing their mission. It is for this reason that DrinkSavy has chosen to focus on creating products that help men and women alike detect date rape drugs in their drinks.

Cold butter is practically impossible to spread, but not with the help of the butter cheese grater that helps soften things up in no time.

A new conference, the Tanzania Agro-Business Expo 2013, hopes to get farmers to not till thier soli. The educational conference is touting the idea of a much less invasive method of sowing seeds. The only question is will the farmers take to the idea? We will find out this summer. 

For the uninitiated, Bento is a type of lunch-time meal which consists of rice, meat, and vegetables, the whole array arranged together in a box. It's a fairly traditional dish, often prepared for school and work lunches; it's also available at most restaurants which serve Japanese food. Those mass-produced meals rather pale in comparison to the stuff I'd like to share with you folks today - calling the ordinary stuff downright inadequate wouldn't be much of a stretch.

If you are a chocoholic and you love those decadent moments of relaxation with a mug of hot cocoa it may be time to take the experience up a notch -- or ten. Drinking Fudge is a whole different experience in liquid chocolate. Not only is it thicker and richer than your usual cup of Swiss Miss, it has an entire line of different flavors to entice the palates of even the most die-hard chocolate lovers.