Ett inlägg delat av Truman Cafe (@trumancafealbertpark) Maj 11, 2017 kl. 2:02 PDT

Avolatte is a latte made in an avocado, something that Truman Cafe in Melbourne came up with as a joke when they uploaded it on Instagram. But when the video went viral, it went from being a joke to something real. Hilarious!

From news.com.au:

This is either a clever marketing campaign wrapped up as a tongue-in-cheek satire about the housing affordability debate, or maybe we've just reached peak hipster. Or maybe both.

But judging from the cry-laugh emoji posted alongside a video of the caffeinated creation posted on Instagram last week which has since gone viral, it’s probably all just a dumb joke.

In fact a barista at the cafe, Jaydin Nathan, confirmed the obvious to news.com.au that, yes, "it was actually just a joke".

"We weren't actually selling them but then someone came in today and wanted one," he said.

"I think it's ridiculous. It's literally coffee in a piece of rubbish."

Casey Neistat recently talked about his friend's start-up called Juicero, a company that sells an at-home cold-press juicer. In Neistat's vlog (YouTube link), he demonstrates some of the product's lack of needs - you can do this all by yourself without using a machine.

I prefer to use a hand juice squeezer myself or a mixer, mostly beacause it saves the environment.

The following reviewer certainly didn't help either with increasing the sales:

In the city of Malmo, Sweden, there is a charming mini-restaurant for mice.

Huffington Post reports:

If you take a look down you may notice something amazing inside a basement window in the neighborhood of Möllevången. Tiny businesses — a bakery and a "cheese and cracker" shop — just the right size for mice.

"It's just too darn charming to imagine a world where mice lives parallel to ours but just slightly out of sight," said one representative of the artist group Anonymouse MMX, who wishes to remain anonymous. (The group has no connection with Anonymouse.org, a site devoted to online privacy.)

They cited the works of Don Bluth, Disney and Astrid Lindgren as "big influences" for the idea. The photos appear to show only two adjacent shops, but the group says they have plans for more.

Image credit: Photography by Johan Nilsson/TT via GP (SE).

Sleepwear designer brand Peter Alexander's latest collection "Happy Little Vegemites Collection" is an homage to Australia's famous spread Vegemite, a food paste that is made from yeast products.

Eye mask:

Pyjama pants:

Dog neckerchief:

Calorie Brands is the name of a project and Tumblr page that makes consumers aware about the high intake of calories in some popular foods and snacks. By incorporating the calories amount as a visual design element on the package design, the project delivers a powerful message regarding our health.

Belle Cushing from Bon Appétit sat down with TV host, author and chef Anthony Bourdain as he gave advice about how to think about food when traveling, something that Bourdain has lots of knowledge about with over 200 travel days per year.

Do you eat the plane food?
Never. No one has ever felt better after eating plane food. I think people only eat it because they're bored. I don’t eat on planes. I like to arrive hungry.

What if you’re on a super-long flight?
You just don’t eat?For a super-long flight, I'd order cheese and shit load of port. I'd eat some cheese and drink myself stupid.

[…]

Where should I travel now?
Beirut. The food's delicious, the people are awesome. It's a party town. And everything wrong with the world is there. Hopefully, you will come back smarter about the world. You’ll understand a little more about how uninformed people are when they talk about that part of the world. You’ll come back as I did: changed and cautiously hopeful and confused in the best possible way. Travel at its best defies expectations. Yes, it's divided. There are Shia neighborhoods, Christian areas—but they all go to the same restaurants. You can go from bikinis by the pool to Hezbollah in an 8-minute cab ride. They all coexist in a weird way. That's part of the thing that makes Beirut so interesting.

Image credit: Via CNN Philippines.

A great visual storytelling from filmmaker Andrew Gooi – Ross Simon, proprietor and bartender at Bitter & Twisted Cocktail Parlour located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, talks about how they produce and create the perfect ice, that after the finishing touches have been made becomes an elegant sphere to be enjoyed with the drink of choice.

Montreal-based candy shop CandyLabs demonstrates how to make candy with panda design. Kids must love these!

Male model David Gandy has a healthy attitude towards food and exercise. Whenever I read or watch an interview with him, he seems balanced whether it's about food, exercise or life in general.

The Gentlemans Journal met up with Gandy to ask him some questions about how he stays in shape.

On Diets:

"The right amount of water, the right foods – not crappy, fatty processed foods. It's everything in moderation, you can eat too much fish or too much meat. I actually had mercury poisoning from tuna because it topped off the levels in my body and made me quite ill."

"People say to me, 'my God, you must not eat something', and then, 'good God, you're eating cake'. I probably eat more than most people think I might, but I'm actually a foodie and I eat a lot. I just stay away from processed foods – white pastas, white carbohydrates, high sugar content, saturated fat – but I can still eat so much because of that. People [unnecessarily] go to the extremities of something."

Featured image: Gandy for Marks & Spencer's Spring/Summer 2015 campaign photographed by Blair Getz Mezibov. Via agency Quadriga.

Now you can both be inspired and eat the paintings by painter Jackson Pollock at the same time! In a collaboration with chocolate maker Unelefante, maitre chocolatier Chef Jorge Llanderal has created Pollock inspired chocolate bars.

Inspired by the unmistakable works of Jackson Pollock, these chocolate bars look nearly as good as they taste. Crafted by the dedicated artisans at Unelefante, the Pollock bar is first created by maitre chocolatier Chef Jorge Llanderal and his family. The bars are then hand-painted with cocoa butter in vivid colors, ensuring that each bar is totally unique and one of kind. Finally, the bars are tucked safely inside a hand-painted package. Perfect as a gift or a special treat for yourself. Eat half and frame the rest.

Via Flodeau.

In the short "The Toastmaker" directed by Patrick Kehoe, we meet someone who has perfected his skills of making toast since childhood. What begins as a serious story, quickly transforms into laughter. Love this!

This short reminded me about Ben Brucker's parody trailer for season two of the Netflix series "Chef's Table".

Via Holy Kaw.

Action on Sugar is a charity that consists of a group of specialists that research sugar's effects on health. They have just released some rather shocking data, which reveals that many hot flavoured drinks from well-known companies such as Starbucks, Costa Coffee and KFC contain large amounts of added sugar. For example, one of Starbucks' Hot Mulled Fruits contained 25 teaspoons of sugar per serving compared to a can of (unhealthy) Coke with only 9 teaspoons per can.

With an estimated 1.7 billion cups of coffee sold each year in the UK from over 18,000 outlets and one in five of the population (including teenagers) visiting a coffee shop daily, campaign group Action on Sugar is today warning of the dangerously high sugar content of certain hot beverages found in many high street coffee shop chains.

This new research by Action on Sugar shows that 98% of the 131 hot flavoured drinks analysed would receive a 'red' (high) label for excessive levels of sugars per serving as sold.

What's more, 35% of the hot flavoured drinks contain the same amount or more sugars than Coca Cola, which contains a massive 9 teaspoons of sugar per can – equivalent to 7 chocolate biscuits.

The worst offender is the Starbuck's Hot Mulled Fruit - Grape with Chai, Orange and Cinnamon Venti (extra-large) – a mix of chai and fruit concentrate, topped with a cinnamon stick and a slice of orange – which contains 25 teaspoons of sugar (that's the equivalent of sugar in 5 muffins), followed by Costa Coffee's Chai Latte (large) with a massive 20 teaspoons of sugar. Interestingly, a Starbuck's Hot Mulled Fruit - Grape with Chai, Orange and Cinnamon Tall (medium) has almost half the amount of sugar than the larger sized cup (13 vs 25 tsp).

Featured image: Cropped vintage ad for Domino's Pure Cane Sugar from 1955. Via Keg Foam.

Are you a New Yorker who needs some inspiration on where to find a new pizza joint, or you just happen to love pizza?!

Take a few minutes and enjoy food author and filmmaker George Motz's short documentary "Brooklyn Pizza" (2008) and watch the food masters of Totonno's, Grimaldi's and Di Fara's make the perfect pizza from dough to pie.

Director Brandon Loper's documentary "A Film About Coffee" (2014) captures the coffee bean's (seed) journey from seed to cup.

A Film About Coffee follows the production of coffee from farms in Honduras and harvests in Rwanda to its global consumption. Listening to farmers, buyers, roasters and baristas about the crop's economic and environmental implications both locally and abroad, the narrative travels to coffee shops in Tokyo, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and New York, with stops in between. Dropping in on artisanal cafes to investigate how each prepares its own unique cup, the film opens a window into the little-understood world of specialty coffee.

Watch trailer:

Death Wish Coffee won the competition for small business owners who wanted to advertise during this year's Super Bowl. Forbes' Susan Adams, met up with founder and owner Mike Brown to talk with him about how he came to join this business in the first place, the comapany's growth, lessons learned along the way and how's business after the Super Bowl.

Adams: Before the Super Bowl commercial, how did you market the brand?

Brown: We've tried to do as much free marketing as possible. We've sent the product to news reporters, celebrities, bloggers. Ninety-nine percent of the time I don't hear anything back. But when people wrote reviews about it, we'd see a bump in sales. We also do Facebook ads and Google advertising. Facebook ads work better than Google ads. We get charged about a dollar every time someone clicks on our ad.

Watch the Super Bowl commercial:

Built in 1880, the coffee house Café Sperl has never been modernized and is one of Vienna's authentic establishments, making it a precious little gem.

Via Jungle in Paris.

In the short "Coffee: Six Degrees of Caffeination" by Swallow Magazine founder James Casey, we find out more about New Yorkers growing passion and interest for coffee.

To celebrate having been with Scotch whisky distiller William Grant & Sons for fifty years in 2012, Malt Master David Stewart selected two European oak hogshead casks that both were filled on the same day back in May 1962, and crafted the single malt Scotch whisky "The Balvenie Fifty". What a beautiful craftmanship from barley to bottle!

The company Gomberg Seltzer Works is the last of its kind in NYC. The company delivers soda water known as seltzer, which in this case consists of filtered NYC tap water and carbon dioxide. In this short, we follow seltzer man Walter Backerman on a typical day of work.

For more, watch Jessica Edwards' short documentary "Seltzer Works" (2010) that features Kenny Gomberg, whose grandfather Mo Gomberg founded the company.

In this cute and adorable short film by stop-motion artist PES, a submarine sandwich is made by using objects such as boxing and baseball gloves and other sports memorabilia.

Image credit: PES' Kickstarter page.

H/t Colossal.