Enter and be damned! HELL's CAFE, PARIS

MARAIS
Hell's Swells

A hot spot called Hell's Café lured 19th-century Parisians to the city's Montmartre neighborhood—like the Marais—on the Right Bank of the Seine. With plaster lost souls writhing on its walls and a bug-eyed devil's head for a front door, le Café de l'Enfer may have been one of the world's first theme restaurants. According to one 1899 visitor, the café's doorman—in a Satan suit—welcomed diners with the greeting, "Enter and be damned!" Hell's waiters also dressed as devils. An order for three black coffees spiked with cognac was shrieked back to the kitchen as: "Three seething bumpers of molten sins, with a dash of brimstone intensifier!"


Source: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/flashback/0308/index.html

Temporary photoElectric Digestopians [TpED] a project by Bartaku

Recipe Layers for the Edible Solarcells

Explaining the technology behind the Gratzel cells, which also rely on nanotechnology to produce power from sunlight, Gratzel said, "We are using nanocrystal films in which the particles are so small, they don't scatter light. You can imagine using those cells as electricity producing windows."

Edible Solarcell

Photos from Bartaku´s worklab in Food Chains

Temporary photoElectric Digestopians [TpED] a project by Bart Vandeput, aka Bartaku


"A series of co-creation worklabs with research based experimentations on the transformation of light energy into electric energy with food. Fusing cooking and solar tech and designs, the participants will work with edible materials to create 'e-bites' with different aesthetics, tastes, consistencies and smells. To be tested, tasted and appreciated on heliotropic tickling tongues."


Do it Yourself pdf:
http://www.libarynth.org/_media/luminous/dsc_manual_loughborough_univ.pdf


Source and more:
http://www.bartaku.net/
http://halikonlahtigreenart.blogspot.com/2011/08/bartaku-phoefarium.html
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/06/temporary-photoelectric-digest.php
http://vimeo.com/21061899
http://fo.am
http://fo.am/halikonlahti

images:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157625331758062/

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/_foam

See also in des couleurs dans la bouche :
http://descouleursdanslabouche.blogspot.com/2011/02/de-la-viande-pour-des-robots.html
http://descouleursdanslabouche.blogspot.com/2011/07/la-nourriture-cest-aussi-de-lenergie.html

Cleverbot, our interview about food fails

http://cleverbot.com/ is a project of Artificial Intelligence. The knowledge of the Cleverbot is growing with all the discussions and encounters. Please help it acquire some knowledge about FOOD because so far it doesn't know anything...

Brad Pitt Eating in Movies

The way you hold on to your fork...
Laura Reineke and Amanda Dobbins listed the content of B.P.'s belly on the screen.





- bagel (Mr. and Mrs. Smith)
- baguette (Inglourious Basterds)
- baked beans (Johnny Suede)
- bar nuts (Ocean's Eleven)
- battle food, Greek (Troy)
- carrot, cooked (Meet Joe Black)
- carrot, raw (JS)
- caviar (Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- cereal (Smith)
- cheeseburger, bacon (Eleven)
- cheeseburger, regular (Moneyball, Kalifornia)
- chewing gum (Burn After Reading, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen)
- chicken breast (Smith)
- chili* (Kalifornia)
- cookies, Christmas (Moneyball)
- cookies, regular (MJB)
- corn chips (Twelve)
- corned beef and cabbage (The Devil's Own)
- cotton candy (Eleven)
- dumplings (Thirteen)
- eggs and bacon (MJB)
- French fries (Moneyball)
- ham (Legends of the Fall)
- human blood (Interview With a Vampire)
- ice cream/sorbet concoction (Moneyball, Eleven)
- Jamba Juice smoothie BAR)
- jelly doughnut (JS)
- lollipop (Eleven)
- meatloaf (JS)
- meat and potatoes* (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
- nachos (Eleven)
- olive (Smith)
- pancakes (Smith)
- peach (Smith)
- peanut butter (MJB)
- popcorn (Benjamin Button, Moneyball)
- Popsicle (BAR)
- pot roast (Smith)
- prison gruel (Seven Years in Tibet)
- ramen or maybe udon noodles (BAR)
- room service (Twelve)
- sandwich, ham, cheese, and sardine* (A River Runs Through It)
- sandwich, turkey (MJB)
- sandwich, unidentified (Devil's Own)
- shrimp cocktail (Eleven)
- soup ( Tibet)
- stir-fry (Thirteen)
- sunflower seeds (Moneyball)
- toast (MJB)
- takeout, Chinese ( Button, Kalifornia)
- takeout, unidentified* (The Mexican)
- Tibetan knot pastry (Tibet)
- trail mix (Tibet)
- Twinkie (Moneyball)

* denotes foods that Brad Pitt orders and spends significant amounts of screen time with, but does not ultimately eat.

Source: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/09/brad_pitt_food_diary.html?imw=Y&f=most-viewed-24h5

Thks: Thefantasticmister Valentin

Take out to your restaurant

FOOD FACILITY

by Martí Guixé and Mediamatic

Oct-Dec. 2005

Food Facility was a working prototype restaurant where the central kitchen is replaced by kitchens of existing take-out restaurants in the area. You were invited to make a choice from the menu of these take-outs and consume your order at Food Facility.

A food adviser placing the order for the customers.

A SHORT HISTORY OF PRIVATE FOOD IN A PUBLIC SPACE: The relationship between the locative restaurant and the non-locative kitchen was firmly based in history. Inside as well as outside of the art world.

Just a few examples from the Netherlands: In 1990 the legendary Supperclub and its chef Thor Vos organized an evening where the food was ordered from take-outs, including Mac Donalds.
During the conceptualization the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam considered not opening a kitchen and having their guests choose from various take-out menu's in its vicinity. The idea was finally abandoned for its 24 hour à la carte restaurant.
Dutch artist Eric Wie was the first to ccreate a take-out food restaurant in a public space during the 1996 Kunstvlaai he created Arie Vederci, a restaurant where you could have pizza delivered.
In Groningen between 1998 and 2003 an artist collective named MPD Export organized similar evenings under the name No Kitchen United in different locations, one evening serving up to 150 guests! a selection of take-out foods.

Also well known is the way millions of lunches are delivered every day in the Indian city of Mumbai through a system of Dabawallas that very closely resembles the ideas unlying these various projects.

In China certain street corner vendors work excactly in this style, selling food that is ordered from little take-out kitchens in the neighbourhood. The only thing they provide is chopsticks, a small plastic kitchentable and chair.