Old Milano Food Tour

Milan as it was not even 100 years ago In light of Milan's  EXPO 2015  focusing on 'feeding the planet: energy for life',...

Food Trucks part I

A food truck as art in Triennale Design Museum , Milano This and the next week I’ll take you on a trip that started long ago, had a s...

Design for food and greener cities

No design at all but delicious! Friet van Piet at Fuorisalone 2014 For the last six days, the fashion city Milan has been full of desig...

Restaurant Day II

Those who follow Food in the Streets on facebook know that I participated (again) to Restaurant Day. After all the fun of the preparat...

Healthy city-life

Food in the Streets once started with a research questioning the influence of food in the public domain. In the (five) years afte...

Extraordinary

My photocamera stayed at home, so I used a picure of this company  who gave us to try delicious strawberry (!) ketchup Last week(end) w...

Urban (t)issues

40.000 bottles a day. Not a thing you do in the centre of the city thinking of all the logistics and space needed Remember that som...

It’s still summer

A good breakfast with fresh orange juice, figs, french toast (!) and coffee! When I tell people that my blog is called Food in the Str...

Step one in the green dream

Interesting products to make food grow close to your kitchen Some time ago I told you about me having a dream . More importantly that i...

An urban farm tour – Day I

The Tuinfabriek at Utrecht Central Station It was the best time of the year to do it. Harvest is ready to be picked while outside ...

An empty city

Three out of the four shops are closed. One of them usually sells food When last week I left my apartment, I felt a kind of a positive ...

Going wild in the city

Delicious, free and really not far from your house Finding food in the city is easy these days. With some money in the pocket you can e...

I Scream, Ice Dream, Ice Cream!

Designing your own ice cream. Not only fun for kids Every summer, when it’s getting too hot to stay at your desk, this topic needs...

The art of.... making bread

Here in Milano it seems that you can’t organize a food event without organizing a ‘How to make your own bread’ workshop. Where is that ...

Restaurant Day - The making off…

Everything ready to receive the guests Last weekend it was the first time that Italy participated in the world-wide Restauran...

From the field to your doorstep

‘They’ want to bring farmers closer to their clients. The supply needs to get closer to the demands. Interesting. I’ve already talked ...

Sweets

You have to resist a lot when you live in Italy. There is wine, delicious pasta’s, wood oven pizza and many, many pastry shops offering t...

Fear of water

Almost ready to take off and serve water to the Milanese Yep. It is a new year. A year full of new opportunities. A new start in which ...

The diversity of urban farmers

Guerilla gardening in Bologna Finally I’ve made it. A short break and a full agenda didn’t allow me to give you the so wanted examples o...

A short history

After I discussed some examples of growing food in the cities, I think it is now time to look back. Not because I am such a traditiona...