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07.21.08

Multimedia Monday: Stop-motion Food food, multimedia mondays, photography, video | (3)
I love food, you probably do too. I also love stop-motion animation, I wish I had the skills for it. Here are a couple videos that combine these two wonderful things. (If you're viewing this in an RSS reader you may need to click over to view the videos.) Now those look like crepes to me and not what I would call pancakes, but great video anyway. Okay, so this one is not real food, but it's still really entertaining and I love the different things they came up with and how they used them. This video is made by PES, you ...

Tagged: animation, cooking, food, pes, stop-motion
01.10.08

McCoffee food, news, travel | (4)
You may have already heard about McDonald's move to be Starbucks prime competition, but I'm going to talk about it anyway. McDonald's plans to open coffee bars, "McCafe"s in their US restaurants this year, but will it be successful? As one commenter on Serious Eats mentions, they've had McCafes in Australia for a number of years. When I was in Australia in 2006 I happened to visit a McDonald's that had one. While it seemed strange to start with, I can definitely see how this could work, in Australia that is. There, unlike in the US, they have a high concern ...

Tagged: Australia, coffee, food, health