Patrick Havens on November 18th, 2007

This annual report (for a Croatian food company) ships wrapped in foil, and needs to be baked in an oven in order to make the thermal-reactive ink illustrations show up.
Note it’s only the Recipe Book (2nd additional book) that is needed to be baked to be seen.  As a designer I love the idea.  It’s [...]

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Patrick Havens on November 22nd, 2006

If you’re cutting things close this year and you still haven’t done your Thanksgiving grocery shopping, Instructables has a handy Excel spreadsheet designed to help you calculate what to buy for your Thanksgiving dinner and how much of it you’ll need.
You just enter how many guests you need to feed (turkey-eating and vegetarian) and what [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 22nd, 2006

Not would you eat it, most anyone if given a hamburger (provided they aren’t vegan) will eat it. But would you spend the big cash for the “ultimate burger.” I’ve no idea how a burger could cost that much. They listed some of the ingrediants… but damn $124.50 for a freaking burger? [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 21st, 2006

After the earlier post about using Google to find recipes I’ve been enjoying giving it random information and coming up with interesting ideas. So far looking through them I figured I’d post a couple I’ve liked so far.
I went search according to what I new we had in the freezer or pantry. Steaks, [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 19th, 2006

Choose a main ingredient and a cuisine, let Google do the rest. Unfortunately, no “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.
This is a cool new service. You give it a a main ingredients what cuisine and it will search through a number of archives and give you recipes using those options. For Example:
Poultry -> Mexican [...]

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