Coco: 10 World-Leading Masters Choose 100 Contemporary Chefs

A yearbook of contemporary cuisine

So if it's not a cookbook, then what is it? It's a list of names. No more than that, really. It's not like other food books, which tend to take an exhaustive, retrospective stance towards a particular chef, region, or technique; it's just a presentation of data. Here are some chefs, here's why they're interesting, here's what they cook.

oco is an exciting, unprecedented guide to the most exceptional talent in the international restaurant world. Coco presents 100 of the best emerging contemporary chefs from all corners of the globe as selected by 10 culinary icons: Ferran Adrià, Mario Batali, Shannon Bennett, Alain Ducasse, Fergus Henderson, Yoshihiro Murata, Gordon Ramsay, René Redzepi, Alice Waters and Jacky Yu.

From Singapore to New York, Stockholm to Seattle, Hong Kong to Paris, these chefs are pushing their craft to new heights and have just begun to receive attention for their cooking. Arranged alphabetically, the book presents each chosen chef with an insightful essay from the ?chef-curator? explaining their pick, a bio, sample menu, and gorgeous full-color images of the restaurant, the kitchen, the chef at work, as well as accompanying recipes such as David Chang?s (Momofuku, New York), Mackerel with Kimchi Puree, Oyster and Radish, Allison Vines-Rushing?s (MiLa, New Orleans) Sweet Potato Pappardelle with Roasted Shitake Mushrooms and Shaved Sheep Cheese and Amaryll Schwertner?s (Boulette?s Larder, San Francisco) Hungarian Cabbage Leaves Stuffed with Kurobuta Pork Shoulder, Sauerkraut with Quince, and Smoky Pork Belly. Part cookbook, part guide to the world's best new restaurants, and part who's who of the international food scene, Coco is an invaluable and timely culinary sourcebook for chefs and food enthusiasts alike.

amazon, 32$

Mmmmhh...Chocolate

5.5 DESIGNERS

The most honest chocolate tablet
Eating chocolate is a true pleasure sometimes quite hard to control.






The First undecided turron
Designed like a real cake to share, « The first undecided tùrron » is a dessert that gathers a large range of flavours in different portions to satisfy each of your guests. Some examples: white chocolate with crumbs, dark crispy chocolate, dark cookies chocolate, milk chocolate and Irish coffee.



Chocolat factory

www.chocolatfactory.com

text2image

here we go again.

Text2Image is one of those "data art" works that balances on the line of total uselessness and visual fascination. While there is no immediate purpose, one still spends minutes playing around with it.

It is an online tool which allows the user to transform text of any sort into a "visualization" of that very content. The results are deterministic, in that they are consistent to the given input, but extremely dynamic through its variance. Notably, "the application of these images is a complete unknown."

Well, I know a use: as a game to try to figure out how what the heck is the algorithm that turns the characters into a visual representation. As long as the word "infosthetics" comes out quite beautifully, I am satisfied.

this graphic means Kontemporat, weird.

masterdesaster.

obviously, you can also check and convert your text directly online .

via

Kitchen Insects by Sayaka Yamamoto

Sayaka Yamamoto's recent Kitchen Insects collection is a graphic illustration of imaginary insects that would not be out of place in a children's book or animated series. The collection is part of Yamamoto's Little Wonders' series, described here by the designer: "When I was little I lived in the countryside, very close to the world of insects. I always enjoyed watching their many different shapes, colors and behavior - sometimes they made me scared and sometimes fascinated me. After I moved away from my parents' house to the big city, I was seeing less insects and I almost started forgetting the great times I spent with them. In Little Wonders I evoke the same feeling as I had in my childhood and express those feelings in four different ways ..."

Artist: Sayaka Yamamoto
+ sayakayamamoto.com

Quelle: http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/010409.php

flooded mc donalds - we make money not art

The South London Gallery in London is currently showing a brilliant video by Danish collective Superflex. Damn! did i have to walk to find that gallery! (thanks Gunnar for pointing me in the right direction.) Little did i know at the time that the artists had uploaded the film online:

Flooded McDonald's from Superflex on Vimeo.

As deeply rooted into economic and political awareness as ever, Superflex' latest opus, Flooded McDonald's is a 20 minute video that shows the model of a typical but empty McDonald's gradually being submerged with (collected than recycled) water.

The work is both intensely dramatic and irresistibly funny. Flooded McDonald's goes beyond the usual fast food suspect. It hints at the consumer-driven power and influence, but also impotence, of large multinationals in the face of climate change. Unlike some documentaries on the same subject, the movie doesn't point an angry finger, it doesn't give lessons nor does it make you feel as guilty as sin. Instead, the film elegantly and comically allows you to draw your own conclusions.

Flooded McDonald's is on view at The South London Gallery through March 1, 2009.