Month: September 2012

The Cookie Cup –  A Coffee Cup You Can Eat

The Cookie Cup – A Coffee Cup You Can Eat

Ever want to drink from a cup and eat it too?  Recently, a Venezuelan designer named Enrique Luis Sardi created a unique cup for Lavazza, the Italian coffee company.  The cup is made of a cookie for the outside, and has a special patented sugar icing on the inside that creates an insulator for the cookie and add sweetness to the coffee.

Who wouldn’t want to drink from a cookie, and then eat it too?  On his website, Sardi reports that he has won many awards for the cup in the area of ecology and design.

Image Source:
Cookie Cup – www.sardi-innovation.com

 

Links:

Cookie Cup – www.sardi-innovation.com

Raw food, sunflowers, and Food Font!  Food Font at the Root Cafe

Raw food, sunflowers, and Food Font! Food Font at the Root Cafe

On Saturday September 29th,  Food Font will be at the Root Café event, a “Sunflower Affair.”  This event is a 5 course raw/whole food dinner, and at the event people will be invited to make a letter out of raw food. After the letter is photographed – each person can then eat the letter.

This is a ticket event, please contact the Root Café if you wish to attend.

About the event:
(from the Root Café website)

“Sunflowers, the bright bursting sign that summer is at its end and fall is upon us. All season the sunflower soaks in the rays of sunshine and the laughter in the garden. It grows strong and tall to support its many blooms. Just as the heat peaks, the sunflower explodes into blossom, giving us the sign that the harvest is upon us.  The sunflower marks the time of balance where reflection of the abundant season and planning for the leaner seasons meet.

We invite you to join the Root cafe in partnership with our farmer, cleveland crops, in celebrating our harvest of raw and whole foods by creating in our community a space for recognizing this important time of year.

It is our mission to provide our community with locally grown, raw inspired whole foods.  Be the first to taste some of our newest explorations in nourishment at our private harvest dinner and dance celebration on September 29th.  It starts with a  5 course dinner from 8pm -10pm, followed by a dance celebration from 10pm-1am.

As we will engage all of your senses starting with aroma and taste, we’ll move on to nourish your sense of sight and touch with the soulful activity of creating ‘Fonts from Food’ with Kristen Baumlier.  Finally, we will treat your ears to live music by Xe La koustic during dinner, bringing live jazz, and soul  music. After the plates are cleared shake your blossoms at our awesome dance party! DJ TBA”

 

Links:

www.theroot-cafe.com/

www.theroot-cafe.com/sunfloweraffair

 

Alphabets made of String Beans, Cucumbers, and Yellow Cauliflower – Food Font at the RIPE! festival

Alphabets made of String Beans, Cucumbers, and Yellow Cauliflower – Food Font at the RIPE! festival


This past weekend, Food Font was at the RIPE! Fest at the Cleveland Botanical Garden in Cleveland, OH.  In the sun, rain, and hail – people stopped by to make letters out of local produce.  On Saturday, two alphabets were made; one out of cucumbers and one out of broccoli and cauliflower.  The cauliflower that we used is yellow and is called “cheesy broccoli” – but no cheese is involved.  On Sunday, it was string beans all the way; a uppercase and lowercase alphabet was made out of yellow and green string beans.  Some of the alphabets we made used the Spanish alphabet checklist – so we made some letters with accents also – so the alphabet can be used for English or Spanish

The vegetables were from Schwartz Fruit and Vegetable Farm which is located in  Chesterland, OH.  Thanks again to Edible Cleveland for helping with the event and sharing a table with us!

The pictures from the event are posted on the Food Font Flickr site., and also can be viewed in the slideshows below.

 

 Food Font event at the Ripe! festival at the Cleveland Botanical Garden in Cleveland Ohio on September 22-23, 2012.

People at the Event – Saturday

Broccoli/Cauliflower Alphabet

Cucumber Alphabet

People at the Event – Sunday

String Bean – Lowercase Alphabet

String Bean – Uppercase Alphabets

 

Link:
RIPE! festival, Cleveland Botanical Garden September 22-23, 2012


Food Font at the RIPE Festival at Cleveland Botanical Garden – This Weekend

Food Font at the RIPE Festival at Cleveland Botanical Garden – This Weekend

This weekend Food Font will be at the RIPE! festival at Cleveland Botanical Gardens from 11am-dusk.  The festival has lots of fresh food, gardening talks, culinary workshops, and activities.  Come stop by and make a letter – we will be making alphabets out of cucumbers, beans, squash, and broccoli/cauliflower.

Also – if you like pancakes, there is a pancake “flipoff” on Sunday where top chefs from the area make pancakes from 10am to 12noon that sounds great and filling  Lots of food and  ripe vegetables will be there!

This event is a ticket event – so check the website for prices and information.

Links:

RIPE! Festival – at Cleveland Botanical Garden Event Page

 

Apples, Corn, and Coffee/Tea Alphabets are in the Works

Apples, Corn, and Coffee/Tea Alphabets are in the Works

This past weekend Food Font was at the Ingenuity festival in Cleveland, OH.  This two day festival features technology, art, and creativity and had a theme of “feed” this year.  One word to say how it went is “Wow.”  Lots of people stopped by the Food Font area to make a letter, and each day we worked to make two food alphabets.

On Saturday of the event we made a uppercase coff/ tea alphabet and also a corn alphabet.  The coffee and tea was from Phoenix coffee, and the corn was from City Fresh.People really seemed to enjoy using the coffee and tea – and there were some interesting and even “fancy” letters that were made.  People enjoyed smelling the coffee and working with the variety of teas and coffees that we had.

On Sunday we made a lowercase coffee/tea alphabet and an apple alphabet.  The apples were from Bauman orchards.  Lots of people stopped by to make a letter and it was fun to watch people work on making larger letters using apples.

Thanks to Phoenix coffee and City Fresh for donating the food for the event and to Edible Cleveland for partnering with us and sharing a booth with us!!

The pictures are now up on the Food Font  Flickr site and can also be seen in the slideshows below.
Note: these image are currently unedited.

 

People at the event – Saturday


Coffee/Tea Uppercase Alphabet


Corn Alphabet


People at the Event – Sunday


Coffee/Tea Lowercase Alphabet


Apple Alphabet

 

Links:

http://ingenuitycleveland.com/