art of bento

Time to Play With Your Food: The Art of Bento

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Hidden Kitchen

[Hidden kitchen 2014]is a portable restaurant which is designed as a backpack. This idea from the time when the artist hung around across the country, he packs all the stuff in an one bag. This project devised to go to backwoods where is the Mokyon-pocha could't go.

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Japanese Market

Glass walls provide woodland views from inside this structure by Japanese architect Takuya Hosokai, which contains a market and restaurant serving only locally produced food

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Food Hacking

Food Hacking: Virtual Cookie
HOSTED BY SIMON KLOSE
October 6, 2015 / 10:00 am

Host Simon Klose kicks off our new series on tech cuisine with a Japanese researcher who shows us how to use virtual reality to make a cookie taste like five different things. We also take a bite of some of Tokyo’s best video game cuisine at Capcom Café. Enjoy!

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Vertical Farming update

"If you follow architecture or design at all, you may have come across aggressively futuristic renderings of skyscrapers topped with rice paddies, or tree-shaped buildings, sprouting plant life from every orifice."

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indoor farms

Shigeharu Shimamura put his plan for the farm into fruition back in 2011. As mentioned before, the farm produces 100 times more food than traditional farming, but an example would probably do best for visual purposes. Right now, the farm has produced 10,000 heads of high-quality leafy lettuce. What is truly mind-blowing isn’t the quantity or the quality of the heads of lettuce. It is the fact 10,000 heads of lettuce is the farm’s output in a single day! If that rate were to be calculated annually, the farm produces about 3,650,000 heads of high-quality leafy lettuce per year!

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Bento Boxes and Architecture

"...starting point for a whole exhibition on the dialogue between the ingenious Japanese food containers and architecture. "Obento and Built Space: Japanese Boxed Lunch and Architecture," currently on show at Boston Architectural College (BAC), explores how bento boxes inspire architects and designers to think about "the potential of emptiness, craft, portability, and sustainability."

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