Urban Foraging — Find Out What Your City Tastes Like
Spring is late in Amsterdam this year, but we can finally see some greenery around the city. Let’s go outside for some urban foraging! Plants growing on the sidewalks that are either an urban wildlife or belong to someone (be it public or individual) may come out to be a great source for your daily nutrients. Fruits, vegetables, herbs, nuts or even snails are only some of the products that one can harvest and enjoy for free.
Read more →Every Home Is A Restaurant With EatWith
By Joop de Boer
Everyone can turn their home into a little private restaurant with EatWith, a new web-based service that enables people to rent our their kitchen table to strangers. EatWith gives travelers the opportunity to eat with a local in their homes and experience local culinary traditions. As the founders explain, “being a guest in someone’s home is a great way to get an authentic local perspective in a different city or country”. And that’s what every modern traveler wants, right?
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Seattle Plans To Build America’s First Edible Forest
By Bob Wiebes
A forest in the midst of a turbulent, roaring city; it sounds like something from an amazing dream, but in Seattle it soon will be quite real. With the self-sustaining Food Forest, Seattle is bringing urban agriculture to a higher level, by creating a place where anyone and everyone can go to harvest fruits and vegetables for free.
Read more →Juice On The Go
For regular readers of our blog, it’s easy to tell that vending machines and food trucks get us going! Well, an LA-based, organic, detox juice company named Kreation features both our obsessions.
Read more →Mobile Café In Denver Turns Coffee Into An Urban Strategy
We get really excited when we come across projects that not only feature pop-up urbanism, but also promote alternative models of urban daily life. Public Coffee is a Denver-based collaboration among many interdisciplinary creative parties, such as designers, social artists, educators, coffee visionaries, social workers, businessmen, a farmer’s market director, and an architect. They have decided to take the concept of the coffee shop one step further in indie entrepreneurialism and deeper in society.
Read more →Meta Food Truck Stimulates Favela Economy
As you’ve read on The Pop-Up City, food trucks have been “all the rage” in cities around the world for the past few years. Here’s a project in Brazil that takes a different spin on the concept: food trucks that, rather than selling food, are training people how to prepare food and manage their own culinary businesses (and maybe even their own food trucks!).
Read more →Food-For-Food Intervention Encourages Shoppers To Rediscover Their Local Market
During the summer of 2011, Hackney-based multidisciplinary collective The Decorators (in collaboration with Atelier ChanChan) transformed a vacant plot within the market into a temporary restaurant named ‘Ridley’s’. Suzanne O’Connell, one quarter of The Decorators, was kind enough to answer a few questions on this unique program.
Read more →New Bangkok Restaurant Brings Street Food Experience Inside
Last year this remarkable Coca Grill restaurant opened doors in Bangkok. Designed by Integrated Field, the restaurant’s interior reflects Thailand’s famous street food culture.
Read more →Restaurant Day And Thuisafgehaald Encourage Foodie-Urbanism
Creative foodies of the world (re)unite! On February 17th, from Amsterdam to Toronto, Poznań to Paris, people will be congregating in art galleries and parks, sidewalks and beaches to meet, eat, and celebrate the next edition of International Restaurant Day.
Read more →Tracking Street Food With An App
I believe that it takes some personal interest on a subject to develop a smartphone application for that. I guess that’s what happened to Eric Lo, a young media designer from San Francisco, who likes to eat street tacos and was frustrated by not being able to track one easily, due to their pop-up nature. Lo developed FoodCarts, a prototype iOS application that allows its user to find a food cart in and around San Francisco in real-time.
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