Become an at-home molecular gastronomist, like Adrià
Want to recreate the mythic El Bulli restaurant, or a rudimentary facsimile, at home? Spanish chef Ferran Adrià has developed a molecular gastronomy kit that will allow home cooks to perform kitchen alchemy, spherifying and gellifying foods à la El Bulli. Together with younger brother Albert, Ferran has released a series of four ‘EasyKits’ this month: spherification, patisserie, cuisine and cocktail. Each kit includes measuring spoons, a recipe book with step-by-step images of Adrià’s techniques and the ingredients needed to create culinary dishes that suspend liquids in other liquids or ‘flavor’ air. An Adrià EasyKit sells for $92/€70 — available at Solegraells and Guzmangastronomia; both ship worldwide. repost AFP-relaxnews
BMW to smart park itself
A new partnership will allow BMW drivers to find, reserve and pay for parking spaces before they set off on their journey. The company has teamed up with NOW! Innovations a company that provides mobile payment and billing solutions across a number of countries and that has developed a flexible and easy-to-use billing and payment platform for parking services. As part of its BMW i Mobility Services arm, the German carmaker has already developed and implemented a service called ParkNow which enables users to find, reserve and even pay for a parking space in advance via either the desktop browser or an iPhone/Android app. The service also ties in with […]