Food & Beverage

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.

How-To: Pastry Salad Utensils

Though I’m not sure they would last the whole meal before they wilted to the point of futility, you can’t deny that these pastry salad utensils would up the cool factor of your next dinner party. The instructions to make them are in French, but a quick trip to Google Translate solves that problem for […]

Coconut Deconstructed

I’m really enjoying The Sweet Beet, a food blog with a focus on nutrition and “real” food. This latest post has some fascinating facts about coconut: “the water has more potassium than a banana, the flesh more fiber than an apple and the oil comprised of a nutritious fat found only (at such high levels) […]

How-To: Blood Slide Candy

Learn to make your own Dexter-inspired blood slide candies over at forkable. [via Street Anatomy] I spent the last week thinking about the Martha Stewart lollipops, and how they could be made more scary. I tried to brainstorm more gruesome fillings but it wasn’t creepy enough. Then I started thinking of what’s really scary. Serial […]