Daily Poetics

The births of all things are weak and tender, and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

Link: omami.ru - Папабабл.

Title Quote:  Montaigne

Wine is bottled poetry.

Link: Buccella Wines :: Registration.

Title Quote: Robert Louis Stevenson

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou callest new flowers to birth.

Link: Choi's Blend - Food_drink - Wallpaper.com - International Design Interiors Fashion Travel.

"The fragrant bulbs, pearls and leaves of ChoiTime teas make for fabulous perfumed refreshment, but for Hong Kong-born Melissa Choi they are, more importantly, the secret to her clear-toned skin, steady weight and generally healthy constitution. The teas are made from white needle green tea, and are naturally scented and hand-woven with exotic flowers. " -wallpaper

Title Quote: Schiller

Ah that such sweet things should be fleet, Such fleet things sweet!

Link: Edible - 24 KARAT GOLD LOLLIPOP.

Pearl Lollipops

"Pearl lollipops are made from, raw cane sugar, wild Madagascan vanilla
essence, and ground natural pearls. The lollipop is best shared between
lovers or given to an admired one!

Since ancient times in china and japan, pearls have been used in child bearing rituals and foods were often decorated with tiny pearls, which were to be eaten in order to secure a pregnancy prior to sex."

24K Gold Lollipop

"This Lollipop is the ultimate extravagance, for those who have everything.

This Lollipop is made by hand with genuine 24 Karat Californian Gold Flakes. Gold is said to contain various anti-bacterial properties when consumed."

Title Quote: Swinburne

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Link: Sarah Magid * Golden Tweenkees * Custom Organic Cake.

Title Quote: Henry Miller

You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.

Link: Katja Gruijters Fooddesign.via ID Magazine

"When it comes to food and drink, Katja Gruijters has a strong intuition. She was one of the first food designers in the Netherlands. She really set the stage for an industry that is now booming. Her fascination for the world and its inhabitants helps her to break patterns. She shakes things up and shows you what you haven’t seen.
 
    Katja turns her findings into powerful product concepts with huge potential.
 
A vision is one thing. Putting it into practice is another. How can we develop products that appeal to people’s desires? Katja Gruijters thinks there is just one answer: sensological © product development...

A combination of sense and technological. This is how Katja describes her unique way of working. And the ‘sense’ experiment is absolutely vital. What does a product or ingredient do to our senses? Does it appeal to basic human desires?

Technology – industrial production processes – that’s the other side of the story. It’s the tension between these two that gives interesting results..." -Katja Gruijters Fooddesign

Quote:  Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

What precious drops are those Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew? -john dryden

Link: Nadine Jarvis | projects.

"Priceless Ring made from sugar. A treasured object made from a non-precious material."

sweet residue

Link: :: candy drawings :: rachel beth egenhoefer ::. candy residue on paper

"The mythic power of the grid is that it makes us able to think we are dealing with materialism, science, or logistics, while at the same time providing us a release into belief, illusion, or fiction. The grid uses its’ materialism as a way to represent relationship, as the body uses its’ container to discuss mind. For inside the body, the body is seen as other to self; like information systems, the other, the mind, is immaterial.

Objects make our insecurities about these intangibles comfortable. They assure our thresholds of belief and decision to trust in these cyclical information systems whether digital, analog, emotional, physiological, or spiritual. Conscious or unconscious, the algorithmic movement of our bodies interacting with machines negotiates a space between. This molded space of negotiation functions in the cyclical as does our sprit, mind, machine, and grid.

Candy becomes an ideal medium to discuss that which is intangible, to represent that which does not physically exist in a form which evokes all the senses. Able to not just see and touch, but also hear, and smell; leading to the ultimate desire of taste and therefore consumption. Candy in every state of its process is temporal. Fluxuating in the threshold of temperature candy reaches it’s ideal state to harden. Only to change again, melting down with the atmospheric influences. And changing again with it’s desirable consumption. It’s being exists as a tangible representation of emotional Ferris wheels.

Textiles share obvious historical connections to technology, its object oriented process serving as the blue print for the immaterial processing of computing. They also share a constructional make-up that interests me more. Knitting together codes of base-two patterns- knits and purls, zeros and ones. Cloth provides the comfort and security of an object. It is tangible code we can see and understand, while giving us the same comfort as our own clothing accessorizing out bodies.

Tying together the processes and objects of my work is the circular looped motion that constructs our actions, desires, and movements. The cycles of analog to digital information pulsating up and down a wave of electricity. The obvious cycles of the body’s hunger and fulfillment intertwined with cycles of digestion. The motion of two hands knitting a string of yarn into cloth. The motion of our bodies interacting with machines, tensing and relaxing as we negotiate in the space between. Digital information plots points for electricity to flow through. Textile patterns plot the construction of cloth. While plotting points, like the grid, order is pure relationship, a relationship of a spinning Ferris wheel.

Placing lollipops in a grid, the temporal will prevail- they will melt, and the thus the grid. Our attempts to plateau these cycles never succeed beyond leaving a residue of that point in time." -rbe

The Ornamented Life

Link: The Ornamented Life - FLORAL CAKE MOLDS.

FLORAL CAKE MOLD

"A freshly baked cake evokes in us so much more than its humble presence would suggest. It is actually a combination of all of our senses which gives the form of the piece of cake offered to us: the sweet vanilla aroma, the soft crumbly warmth, the faint memory which doesn’t quite materialize, but nevertheless infuses us with a feeling of goodness.

Whereas it can be said that all food can act like this to some degree, there is no other food which has more symbolic and universal power than a basic cake (aside from bread, but that is a different story). It has the right balance between ordinary and special: we don’t eat cake everyday, but it’s always there to celebrate an occasion. The actual baking of the cake mirrors this relationship: it is neither difficult nor expensive; all it requires is the cook’s care and attention. These values are impossible to buy and they define the difference between a home-made and shop-bought cake.
The home-baked cake is accompanied by other attributes which often contribute (and acquire) a dear quality: an embroidered tablecloth, the hand-painted china, the glinting silverware – a whole army is brought out to fight for the same purpose.

The Floral Cake Molds are created in recognition and celebration of this ritual. The material, earthenware, is chosen for its universal humbleness and familiarity – it is the most basic of materials, terracotta literally meaning “cooked earth.” So many basics are made from it (bricks, flower pots), and in many an archeological museum a rudimentary cake mold will be seen as one of the very first utensils created and used by many a culture.

The shapes of the molds are chosen for their archetypal qualities. They are also the most basic of units: a stem, a bud, a leaf, and a flower. And yet, so much beauty has been created with these few basic elements – the entire gamut of the natural world, the countless floral patterns in the Applied Arts, and so much in the Fine-Arts.

When cake is baked in these molds, the resulting cake-units can be arranged in an endless variety of ways, giving the cake itself decorative power. It becomes independent of nice table-cloth or –ware in order to bring out the full experience since the cake itself becomes the decoration, and therefore the undistracted focus of attention.
The Floral Cake Molds are cooked modeled earth to provide the ultimate “goodness of the earth” produce!"

 

Link: Lovescool - For the Love of Dessert » Blog Archive » Tasty Lace.

"Dutch artist and food designer Katja Gruijters doesn’t feel her work is complete until it’s eaten. Her “Tasty Lace” exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design will be an audience-participation event. “Newly designed tiles in white, bittersweet, and milk chocolate, sugar, genoise, shortbread, winegums, and brownies will be presented as a patchwork installation piece. Visitors will be invited to break, cut and tear apart the work of art, then consume it.” Tea, donated by The Shaded Leaf, will be served to help digest the work. Reservations are required for this unusual feast."

Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning . . . -Robert Ludlum

Link: Margaret Braun. cake '1,000 explosions'

"Margaret Braun - Author of Cakewalk (Rizzoli), is a Sugar Artist who has redefined the art of cake decorating. Internationally renowned for her distinctive, boundary breaking style which fuses food and the fine arts, Margaret has influenced and inspired dessert and design enthusiast for years. At the same time, her emphasis on classical technique places her in the realm of genuine artisans from centuries past. Born in New York to a family of musicians and food lovers, Margaret spent the better part of her early life drawing on napkins, jeans, shoes, desks, and walls, until she found her self in a pastry kitchen where she began drawing on cakes. Then she discovered food coloring and from that moment on Margaret went on to create some of the most beautiful and delicious edible creations ever seen. Margaret loves what she does and her fantastic creations have been featured extensively in print, TV, radio, and in motion pictures."

MENU - Candy Top

Link: MENU - Candy Top.

 

"Candy Top is a refreshing and funky alternative to the traditional candy bowl. It is made of clear glass with a black rubber lid. Whether horizontal or vertical, Candy Top will adorn any desk or coffee table, a teenager's room or the kitchen. Fill it with colourful M&M's, pink marshmallows or delicious, healthy nuts."

 

What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile. -Richard Rodgers

Link: rockmade: candy photographs by craig kanarick.   

Digital c-prints by Craig Kanarick on archival paper mounted behind gallery plexiglass.

 

We live on the leash of our senses. -Diane Ackerman

Link: BarXV.

A SPECIAL SOFT DRINK WITH ALL NATURAL FLAVORS WHERE THE SCENT PLEASES YOUR SENSES YOU EXPERIENCE THE AROMA INSIDE AND OUT A SPECIAL DRINK FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS AND FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO MIX WITH VODKA OR FAVORITE WHITE WINE AS A SPRITZER

Welcome To I Dream Of Cake.

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes. -Aldous Huxley

Link: Springwise: Food & Beverage ideas.

More handheld goodness: it may be autumn in Brazil right now, but last summer's sensation, spicy flower ice creams, can still make it big this summer in Europe and North America. Pioneering this delicacy is ice cream shop Mil Frutas (Portuguese for a thousand fruits), which sells exotic mixes of fruits and spices that have resulted in flavors such as apricot & thyme, watermelon & ginger, Sicilian lemon & rosemary, pineapple & cayenne pepper, green grape & basil.

Absolute hit this season was the creamy 'capuchinha flower ice cream' - slightly spicy, sweetened with honey and sprinkled with poppy seed. Sounds good! Want to get in on this game? Visit Mil Frutas' Jardim Bot�nico shop or their Ipanema caf�, or better yet, partner with them to bring their ice cream or even their shops to the rest of the world.

Believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! -Nietzsche

In a sensory space there had to be objects too - objects that rouse the senses. Objects specially designed for this space tell stories to make you smile, feel, smell and discover... A hanging UFO unit sets the stage for this curious mixture. A space filled with candles, all-terrain cuddlers,titillating T-shirts, ponchos and bath scarves shiver senders for the head, coloured perfumes and feather skin strokers. Every type of stimulation for your senses, things that are and aren't what they seem, limited-edition "sensational" objects to renew again and again. LUBULLEKENZO

 

Link: • • •�LABULLEKENZO�• • • �Sensation tools : Luscious lollipops.

‘Tasty trip for tempted tongues’: Take the main road and go round the Great Sphere roundabout three times. Slide along the small mound, head for  the Circular Cliff , and have a break. Then turn immediately right, zigzag carefully between the dips… You’re there! Suggestion: On the way back, make the reverse journey backwards…

via Charles and Marie

 

 

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. -E.B. White

Link: Translated version of http://www.prisenflagrantdelice.com/.

Delicacies salted and sweetened to give pleasure or to offer... beautiful greedy gifts to renew itself in art to offer...
to surprise, to astonish and ravir your friends...
gifts new, surprising, remote, in order to be able to be taken in obvious delight... of good and beautiful...
to share the taste of single together, to leave to discovered new savours, to practise greedy curiosity in a beautiful appetite to live...

Meeting of two épicuriennes and their common passion for the good, the beautiful one and the new was born the shop TAKEN in OBVIOUS open DELICE in June 2003.
The discovery of unknown, subtle and astonishing savours is our permanent search...
It is our selection of products, of rare delicacies, original and tasty that we want to divide with you...

The small courtesies sweeten life... -C.N. Bovee

"With those which sweeten, With those who did not sweeten, It will be from now on … … difficult to choose..." -Belle de Sucre

Translated version of http://www.belledesucre.com/.

Colored sugar bars and sugar creations...

Link: C.QUOI - Cr�ation d'objets - Savourer - Justin.

 

Justin

Justin is a little duck that your children will insist upon when you have a coffee.The same size and weight as a classic sugar cube, he comes with 12 other friends. Of course, a thought has been spared for the little rascal!

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. -Ronald Reagan

Link: 5.5 Designers.

 

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. -Horace Mann

Link: DailyOlive.com: Got $1,000? Why Not Try a Golden Opulence Sundae?.

The Golden Opulence Sundae, the "World's most expensive sundae", was created to celebrate Serendipity's 50th Anniversay last year.

Made with "5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla and covered in 23K edible gold leaf, the sundae is drizzled with the world's most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porceleana, and covered with chunks of rare Chuao chocolate, which is from cocoa beans harvested by the Caribbean Sea on Venezuela's coast. The masterpiece is suffused with exotic candied fruits from Paris, gold dragets, truffles and Marzipan Cherries. It is topped with a tiny glass bowl of Grand Passion Caviar, an exclusive dessert caviar, made of salt-free American Golden caviar, known for its sparkling golden color. It's sweetened and infused with fresh passion fruit, orange and Armagnac. The sundae is served in a baccarat Harcourt crystal goblet with an 18K gold spoon to partake in the indulgenceserved with a petite mother of pearl spoon and topped with a gilded sugar flower by Ron Ben-Israel."

www.serendipity3.com

Dear Lord, the gods have been good to me. As an offering, I present these milk and cookies. If you wish me to eat them instead, please give me no sign whatsoever. . . . Thy will be done. (munch, munch, munch) -Unknown

Tank Goodness Cookies.

Warm cookies delivered fresh from the Tank family in Minneapolis.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw...

Link: Document sans titre.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.  -Alexander Pope

Sculpture lumineuse à suspendre en "plastique de Bohème", 2003. Plastique de récupération, lustre vintage. 7 ex. Autour d'un lustre vintage est greffée une structure de "colliers" de plastique qui reconstitue un volume. On peut, à partir de ce principe, imaginer toute forme et taille de sculptures.

She with one breath attunes the spheres, And also my poor human heart. -Henry David Thoreau

Sencha - Our Products.

She with one breath attunes the spheres,   And also my poor human heart.

Sencha Naturals Green Tea Blend Mints

Sencha Naturals produces it’s own green tea extract exclusively from organic, fair trade tea estates. By sourcing high quality green tea, as well as utilizing traditional extraction methodologies, our extracts contain potent levels of the key actives which are referred to as polyphenols (catechins) and flavonols.
Three green tea mints equal approximately the same level of polyphenols as an average cup of green tea

VoJo Energy Mints

Welcome to Sugart

Link: Welcome to Sugart.

Enviromental Art And Design SUGART uses delicious chocolate and your favorite candies for unique handmade landscapes, window fronts, boxes, and sculptures. Enjoy one yourself, or share it with friends and loved ones. A truly imaginative gift for a birthday, an anniversary, a heartfelt emotion, or just to say, whatever you might want to say... it will be remembered and savored too. Everyone wants to have the very best for their special occassions. Why shouldn't it also be delicious? Finally, artistic beauty and incredible taste are together in one! Creating your delectable fantasies.

Using sugar frosting, a forestscape is transformed into a magical, enchanted, temporary edible experience.

Forget about the precious sight of my lover’s face that steals away my heart. Just seeing the borders of the fields on the borders of her village gives me instant joy. -Hla Stavhana

www.weloveeve.com.

GARDEN OF EDEN

Office Cupcakes and Birthday Cakes Want to celebrate a colleague's birthday, new joiner, maternity/paternity leave, new baby, job promotion? Commiserate for a leaver? We deliver our delicious fresh cupcakes (vanilla or chocolate) and birthday cakes direct to your desk.

Custom Cupcakes and Birthday Cakes
Do you have a special request? We will try our best to accommodate your custom orders and bespoke designs for any of the above.

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. -Shakespeare

Edible Gems. Candy-Glam Rings by Escriba.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication. -Michel de Montaigne

: RITROVO : Gourmet Italian Foods :Croxetti Hand-Stamped Pasta.

Description: NEW! Medallion-shaped pasta, each piece individually hand-stamped as during the feudal period when powerful clans displayed their coats-of-arms for status even at the dinner table. Now Croxetti are playfully imprinted with sunsets, palm trees, and other designs and grip sauces wonderfully!

Well I've had a happy life. -Hazlitt

Link: CUBOLIBRE Creativando Creativando - CUBOLIBRE - Creativando @ Owo.it shopping online.

Designer Creativando   Seat/table, Creativando, CUBOLIBRE. Do of it what you like. It is a seat, a foot-stool or a coffee table. Cubolibre is resistant, confortable, midular and beautifull To fit in any style of home. Cubolibre: a cube to love. Manufactured in varnish fabric

Chocolove, chocolate bar with a poem inside.