Late night testing angles and approaches before shooting footage tomorrow morning
Hi,
I´ve created this blog for a project I am working on around parallel cuisines and creativity in the kitchen. I am exploring the idea of having a visual channel into the kitchens of friends, family and network, and how that might influece our norms around preparing and cooking our meals.
The concept of foodroulette was an initial classification of what it might mean, but it is becoming more of a system built around trust, with the people you know; at best encouraging us to think new in terms of our ability to diversify our food culture, be more experimental and engage across locations.
In mid-January each individual from the interaction design program will present the concepts we develop in November/Earyl December. I aim to get inspired by findings, and spontaneous discoveries that occur across a visual channel between kitchens.
Relevant to many of our projects.
Future laboratory prediction:
In thirty years time, the kitchen will be so technologically advanced that it will almost be alive, responding actively to our needs like only a mother could. To reflect this IKEA has created an image of the future kitchen – INTUITIV. As you walk into the INTUITIV kitchen of the future, LED light projections adjust to your mood – it will know if you have a hangover via sensors that will read your brainwaves. Aromatherapy infused walls will be synced to your calendar, calming you before a big meeting or energising you before a gym session. The fridge will have selected some breakfast options, identifying the essential vitamins for your day via sensors. When you get home, a hologrammed chef will be on hand for recipe inspiration. This kitchen will be intelligent, predicting its inhabitants’ needs with smart technology. Synchronized appliances will make everything happen at the touch of a button, communicating through iPad style devices which will act as the brain of the kitchen, making our lives easier.
Pulling together some early shadowing these days, while I am still trying to collect as many videos from around the world as possible; if anyone would be interested in having me watch you as you prepare dinner, that would be really great.
I´ve been trying to find something that supports a possibility to detect which food we select for making( without ´not getting dirty and dealing with an interface) and came across this sketch, which might be ridiculous but might be interesting for several of us.
I stumbled across this website through finding recipe generator apps. First of all it’s free, so naturally it comes with some annoying commercials.
The site and app is interesting though for the following reasons, you input up to three ingredients and you discover user-fed food adventures with the same ingredients (also other ingredients too of course). They say they have up to 170,000 recipes so, I suppose filtering is key. You can search by season, occasion, popularity, date, or arbitrarily. I just typed in french and was appealed by what choices existed. It seems though that there are a lot of recipes with no image, which leaves no reference or preview to what is there, which is unfortunate for the submitter and potential interested person. I liked that images were scalable, and that there are a few video tutorials, they seem trusty.
There is also ‘foodie updates’ but they have no appeal at all. I’m missing a bit of human feel in the whole BigOven world. Still might be worth a try.
Vanity Barcodes
A vanity barcode is a product UPC barcode that´s been turned into a decorative design, yet still scans like a regular barcode. They´re a powerful marketing tool that can transform a boring, space-hogging barcode into a terrific brand asset.
Great finding from Lauren.
SEASONAL! BBC’s food page gives you the ability to browse through recipes based on what is seasonal (in UK) each month. NICE!
Smitten Kitchen
One of the few food blogs that stands out. Here how to prepare a simple but rather authentic little meal : apple latkes.
The blog has a really nice library around recipes and organized clustering around that.
Maria posted this today: ‘Chefs looking for Wild Ingredients Nobody Else Has’, I found it appealing too. I think for us to get away from routine, we would seek out for particular ingredients of whom feel less ordinary? What would that be the equivalent to in Ica gourmet?
Chefs Look for Wild Ingredients Nobody Else Has
As a concept around introductions to mannerisms across cultures, it is still at a juvenile state, but I’m sure we might be intrigued by some cultural norm deviations. Taken lightheartedly is a diplomatic way of saying it’s work in progress. Nevertheless, partly amusing. I think it’s the right way to do this infographically (much further).