What's cooking good looking? Love da Pop Corn

Want to add a wow factor to your soirée cinema? I discovered this little business while I was watching a movie at the lovely Wilton's Music hall in East London. Little baggies filled with White chocolate popcorn were putted on each seat! MIAM.

I learned after, that 3 Saatchi & Saatchi advertising young executives started their own popcorn business 1 year ago, cooking and burning popcorn in their kitchen.

The flavors are cute (Reggae Reggae sauce, sweet ginger..) and the initiative they took after noticed a gap in the market for healthy popcorn is going pretty WELL now.

Even thought it was not always the case, you can see their story at www.lovedawebsite.com

"This story is called Being Roasted By Dragons. Once upon a time, Love Da Popcorn went on Dragon’s Den, on the telly. The dragon’s roasted them, especially Duncan Bannatyne who said, “This is not a business!” But Peter Jones said yes it bloody is, and Love Da Popcorn did a dance to no music.* "

Images source: lovedawebsite.com

infos: Evening standard monday 8 august 2011, p.35

Strange purchase #2: Cake Glitter

Of couse, England is the paradise of cupcakes and afternoon tea!!

I found in a food festival a sale of cake glitter! You can either put in on cake as a topping or use it to make fuzzy drink (Champagne) more glamourous!

Maybe we can use it in other occasions?! What about sparkling gravy? hihihi

See HERE to buy it

Also see an other strange purchase: The matchstick-garden

The book Club

New discovery, The book club in Shoreditch. I went to a special event around 3d printing. (don't know why) ..Must say that i'm not really into that stuff (and it cost 10 quids) but the place is cool, good ambiance, good music, food, pingpong table, noisy (but not to much), young (but not to much), artsy, design and interesting special events of any kind. Can be quite packed in the week ends, I prefer in the week days.

100 Leonard Street EC2A4RH

Bacon sandwich

"Bacon sandwich is the reason most vegetarians give up here" -Neil (LONDON)

Bompas and Parr: The Jelly architects

Probably one of my best discovery of london, Bompas and Parr are an example of the best creative work I ever seen.

Science, art, ludic experience, gastronomy; those 2 "jelly architects" work with all the human senses to create fairy tales for kids and adults since 2002.

Forget about your fantasm of a jell-o pool when you were 12, starting few years ago with a jelly banquet, they add to their corpus great ideas and fantasies.

Among them, a chocolate waterfall, a scratch n sniff cinema, a "Gin-To cloud" (breathable cocktail!), a little artificial lake of punch that people could enjoyed and sipped on human-size nenuphar platform, a flavour tripping party where people experienced the effects of Synsepalum Dulciphicum that change bitter taste into a sweet candy flavor, glow in the dark food festivities,and a little chewing gum factory where people were able to create gums that changed flavors when chewed with a possibility of 200 originals flavors...

This summer, for the lauch of the sweetener (The truvia), they create a little paradise on the rooftop of the city where people chilled in little boats, floating on emerald water.

WHY CANT WE HAVE THAT IN MONTREAL?!

Image from itsnicethat.com

see more:

Marshmallow egyptian recipe :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/apr/17/royal-wedding-bompas-parr-marshmallow

The website: http://www.jellymongers.co.uk

The Parmesan Pencil

(design agency Kolle Rebbe)

Parmesan? Sharp your pen on your pastas (truffles, chili and pesto flavours)!