Future Farmers at Design Indaba 2010
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by heidi in Design, Food, change, innovation
A number of last year’s Design Indaba speakers returned to the stage this year, having applied their minds to a particular topic: future farming.
5.5 presented a book that displayed all the typical fauna and flora in cities, Dunne and Raby presented a concept on futuristic foraging, Frank Tjepkema shared his ideas of self-contained farming systems.
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Martha Stewart at Design Indaba 2010
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by heidi in Business, Design, Food
Let them eat cake.
She might as well have said it. (Or it might have been, Let them eat pork, with glitter?)
Poor Martha. She was savaged, by an audience that walked out en masse.
How could she have gotten it so wrong? How did she manage to alienate her audience so thoroughly?
Was it that she…
i) …talked [...]
Christien Meindertsma at Design Indaba 2010
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by heidi in 4669, Design, Food
Christien is interested in tracing the origins of the things around us. She spoke of her projects related to three raw materials: wool, flax, and pig (yes, pig.)
As part of her wool project, she journeyed to Idaho, to spend time with a flock of organic sheep. She created a series of cardigans and jerseys that [...]
Buenos Aires: Bonito
Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by heidi in Food, Travel
It’s always an adventure when you book holiday accommodation online, isn’t it? You never quite know what you’re going to get…
Sometimes, it is pure delight. (About the rest, I don’t bother to write). Bonito is a mother-daughter project, an apartment that’s been converted into a design hotel with 5 unique rooms. I booked us in [...]
Ferran Adria at Design Indaba 2009
Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by in Design, Food
Introduced as a Salvador Dali of the kitchen (though as an aside I read in an interview that the person he would most like to meet is Picasso!)…this man has been crowned the best chef in the world by press and peers alike. He simply called himself a cook.
Haute cuisine he described as a universal [...]
Jazz at Simon's at Groot Constantia
Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 by Peter Orsmond in Blogs
Rain, rain and more rain. Oh and did I add a little of fuck’s sake rain. This is truly a cold front of note and has been really cold and miserable the last few days in Cape Town. I think I saw a squirrel with a nipple rise the other day, it [...]
My official and unofficial review of the 27Dinner
Posted on 28. May, 2009 by admin in Blogs, featured
Whilst everyone is at the Seacom launch I thought I might take this opportunity to pen my thoughts on the 27 dinner which was held last night at Glaceau Vitamin Water’s 44 Stanley Avenue pop up store.
44 Stanley is a popular Moral Fibre hotspot, we love the breakfasts at Salvation cafe and I’ve personally been [...]
Parallel Palindromic Numbers and Parallel Computing
Posted on 26. May, 2009 by OuZo in Science
I am a honours IT student, studying at the University of Johannesburg. One of the courses I am taking is Parallel Programming. That is were we write programs that run in a grid of computers, linked together in a network. This is a rough outline of my Parallel Programming project.
Palindromic Numbers: A palindromic number is [...]
How to make the best steak sandwich in the world! Promise…
Posted on 12. May, 2009 by admin in Food, featured
If I could I’d eat out every night, no let’s get that straight if I could I’d eat in every day if I had a chef to do my bidding. “Make me mah steak Chef, and make sure it’s done how I like.” “Yes sir..” he’d say whilst shaking his head and dragging his feet [...]
Da Graziella Dunvegan Restaurant Review
Posted on 05. May, 2009 by Doron Dusheiko in Food
When they say an eatery is authentic, what exactly do they mean, how authentic is authentic and does it matter? Are they talking about those trendy places in Parkhurst or Greenside that have somewhat of a regional theme? Perhaps they are referring to classic dishes from the culture at hand? To me, authentic means that [...]
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