Welsh product designer Chris Chapman has created this fun and relatively hassle free solution to the home vege patch.

Habana Outpost
Habana Outpost is an indoor-outdoor eco-eatery that serves as Fort Greene’s truly unique community hang out spot. Its signature features are worth experiencing: smoothies are fresh-blended by bicycle power ($1 off the price of your smoothie if you pedal yourself), and the patio serves as a live music venue and mini movie theater on most nights. The kitchen (housed in a bright red truck permanently parked in the yard) runs on solar power, utensils are biodegradable and food waste is composted. Summer is the season to visit the Outpost, when the picnic tables are almost always crowded with patrons [...]

Australasian alcohol company Lion Nathan recently launched their 6 Beers of Separation campaign for their beer, Tooheys Extra Dry.  The competition offered young people a chance to meet the person they found most inspiring, attempting to demonstrate the concept of ‘6 degrees of separation’.  Entrants were asked to submit a video entry to be considered, and now with four Australian finalists chosen, the microsite is streaming their progress.  With eighteen days and $12,000 at their disposal, the finalists must meet with five people, each person intended to move them one step closer to the person they aimed to meet.
Toohey’s Extra [...]

Tired of taking the back bench in five star kitchens, an anonymous apprentice chef  from Sydney created Transient Diner to give other apprentice chefs the opportunity to try their luck at running a ‘virtual’ restaurant for a night.
Those lucky enough to partake in the experience must locate a possible venue, design the menu, create a restaurant theme and source staff, testing their skills without the responsibility of financing a real restaurant.
Conducted monthly, prospective diners must register their interest via email and wait for an acceptance response.  Address, dress code and time information are sent to patrons via text message [...]

Underground restaurants are the dining equivalent of a speak-easy or a rave. Whether they are entirely legal or not is a bit of a grey area. But this is part of their allure. There’s something very intoxicating about the combination of being “in the know” and illicitness that creates an experience that people can’t help but talk about. It’s word of mouth marketing at its most powerful.
Underground restaurants are new to the UK in the guise of MsMarmitelover’s Underground Restaurant in Kilburn and Horton Jupiter’s Secret Ingredient in Hackney, but are much more familiar in other parts of the world. [...]

The beverage aisle just keeps on getting more complicated. In the last two years companies have put their new product development on hyper drive and the beverage segment has fractured more and more. In the last few months, though, consumers are finding it even more difficult to find their favorite refreshments— this time due to rebranding. Companies are implementing new ways to keep their brands enticing during this recession, and many are turning to new packaging.
Here we look at some of our favorite drinks, what they’ve become, and the reaction to the changes.
Pepsi Co. has lead the way with its [...]

As longtime Jamie Oliver (aka The Naked Chef) fans, we’re excited to hear about his latest venture: Recipease, a local food and kitchen supply store in London, set to be the first of a chain to open throughout the UK.  The shop, which opens today on St. Johns Road, Clapham Junction, is just one of Jamie’s many efforts to extend his approach to healthy, conscientious cooking and eating to as many people as possible. He’s written several cook books, opened a restaurant training under-privileged, aspiring young chefs, and has led a push for a UK-wide improvement of school lunches. Recipease [...]