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Stolen Recipes
The Stolen Supper Club is a London catering company that uses recipes from famous restaurants, such as Nobu, E&O, the Ivy and Marcus Waering. Every Monday, fifteen guests converge on Notting Hill, BYOB in hand, to sample the Stolen menu in return for a donation (approx. £30 depending on menu). Read a review in The [...]
Virtual Farming
Le Vedure Del Mio Orto (The Vegetables From My Garden) is an Italian website where, like the massively popular Facebook game Farmville, you can grow your own crops. The difference is that you can actually eat the crops you grow, as the website will actually plant them on its farm near Turin, harvest and then [...]
Night of the Ad Eaters
The Night of the Ad Eaters is an international travelling show that screens five and a half hours of adverts from around the world, including Russia, Asia, Africa, and South America, Mongolia, Iraq and the Guarani region of India in “an enthusiastic fairground cum rock concert atmosphere”. The tour happens annually and visits 40 countries. [...]
Zero Baggage
Zero Baggage is a new service that aims to take the lug out of luggage. They offer a range of options, all designed to make it possible for you to travel with just hand baggage by allowing you to rent new, or almost new clothes and other goods that you need for a trip abroad. [...]
Five Hundred Ship Wrecks
Mauritania’s Nouadhibou Bay is home to some of the world’s last Monk Seals. It’s also the resting place of around 500 derelict ships; most of which have been abandoned and reported as sunk to insurance companies. The ships are gradually rusting away, polluting the surrounding ocean with diesel and oil, and creating a hazard for [...]
Lion Burgers and Camel Cutlets Anyone?
A restaurant in Arizona got more publicity than it bargained for when it promoted lion burgers in its newsletter as a tie-in to the football world cup in South Africa: bomb threats. But reporters found a more intriguing story when they tried to find the source of the lion meat – via a butcher called [...]
Starbucks Enters Its Middle Age
In 2011 Starbucks turns 40, and argues an article in Reason, it’s battling with a mid-life crisis as it tries to reestablish its authenticity and trailblazing credentials. Read all about it.
Shop at a Street Market Anywhere in the World
24 Hour Market allows you to browse the stalls in street markets around the world – Hong Kong, Shanghai, Stockholm and London – and immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of the local market experience. For example, in Hong Kong, you can visit Mr Wong’s Comb stall and buy an aluminum comb for $6 [...]
Middle Eastern Women Entrepreneurs
There are increasing numbers of women entrepreneurs in the Middle East but they face a number of obstacles to success: it’s not acceptable to network with male business colleagues after normal working hours; sexism of male colleagues and archaic an unpredictable laws waiting to be broken. Read more about challenges they face and how they [...]
How to Be a DJ
Where did the time go..? DJ Danny Rampling, one of the titans of the dance and rave scene has been commanding the decks for twenty years. He’s got a book coming out - Everything You Need to Know About DJ’ing & Success - in which he shares his insights and tips for DJing and business [...]
