First they showed us how they advertise its food, then they revealed how the Big Mac sauce gets made, now, the third video from McDonald’s Canada reveals the industrial magic behind the company’s famous french fries from farm to fryer. They obviously left out the part where the fries are sprinkled with crack on them. [...]
Anthony Bourdain’s new PBS show, The Mind of a Chef, drops Nov. 9. It looks like the entire first season will focus on Momofuku mastermind David Chang and the process behind his cooking. It’s almost like a long-form documentary. If this is just the first season then I hope there are others with a similar [...]
The latest ‘Skyfall’ featurette looks at shooting underwater action sequences. Though I’ve seen just about everyone of these behind-the-scenes looks at the upcoming James Bond flick, I feel like the studio has done an incredible job with balancing the process of making the film without spoiling much of the movie. Get your tuxedos ready for [...]
Dan Sadgrove shot this short video on Fred Rigby and his simple handmade tables. It almost feels like I’d be capable of making a table of similar quality, except for all the welding and fine craftsman woodworking involved. In cruising through his projects, I love Rigby’s sense of how the natural and industrial worlds can [...]
In honor of Krispy Kreme’s 75th Anniversary, which happens to be today, this short video from WFAE shows the original glazed doughnuts being made all the way from dough to box. If your taste buds don’t glaze over in excitement from this, then I don’t know. I just don’t know. [via theaggregate]
Hyundai must have signed a sponsorship deal with The Walking Dead, because the car company has produced a zombie-fighting car, based on drawings by Walking Dead creator and writer Robert Kirkman. Hopefully, Hyundai gets its act together and produces a few of these and kicks in the money to make Detroit’s zombie amusement park happen. It makes me [...]
Depending on the cheese, the process of turning milk into cheese could take anywhere from a few weeks to several months. Longer if you include the aging process. The act of making cheese is actually fairly simple. Lady Oyster and I have made a few mozzarella balls. Basically, warm up the milk, add bacteria to [...]
It’s more than just an author sitting down and typing out a story. The editors, designers, and creative directors at Random House offer a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to publish a book. [via explore]
Adam Roberts, who is known for his cooking blog, The Amateur Gourmet, has a new book coming out in the fall. For ‘Secrets of the Best Chefs‘, Roberts traveled the country getting tips of the trade from a panoply of amazing chefs, including Alice Waters, Jonathan Waxman, Anito Lo, and more. The book, available Sept. 10, seems [...]
Christopher Parker explores the process and creative team behind Brooklyn’s Industry City Distillery, who makes one spirit — sugar beet vodka. The distillery is the first project born out of The City Foundry, a design and research group whose mission is to improve manufacturing through science and art.
