This Thanksgiving, don’t just show up with a cheap bottle of wine and your fat pants. Be prepared with a shirt that can handle a day of overeating and spillage.
With Dirt Pattern Material, by Stockholm-based designers Mair/Wennel, the shirt comes pre-stained to save you the embarrassment of spilled wine, gravy, or whatever that is that your crazy aunt made.
The pattern is even on the back, just in case you’re a reeeally messy eater. Find out more here.
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We’d like to think that artists, regardless of their level of fame or cultural status, would still play with their food. Artist, Hannah Rothstein, showed us what this might look like last year, and now she’s back for seconds.
Thanksgiving Special: Seconds focuses on a few more modern artists plating Thanksgiving dinner — including Keith Haring, Gustav Klimt, Joan Miro and Salvador Dali.
Check out more of the project below. There are also prints of each available, with a portion of the proceeds donated to the SF Food Bank to help feed families in need this Thanksgiving.
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Thanksgiving is coming, which means that it’s time to silently judge friends and relatives at the dinner table. Behavioral food scientist, Juliet Boghossian, and Cosmo have provided a fun little way to gauge your table-mate’s personality by how they plate their food.
Do they give equal space to each food item? Then that person is a disciplined pre-planner who doesn’t take on more than they can handle. Piling all of the food into a bowl, is the work of a tireless creative seeking to be unique.
How do you plate? Just, so we can judge.
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When we think of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner — the requisite turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and creepy uncles comes to mind.
Guardian Food takes us back to the very first Thanksgiving meal in 1621, showing us that it was far from the meal that’s now synonymous with giving thanks.
Turkey probably wasn’t even on the menu, as wild turkeys may have been a bit too fast for the pilgrims to hunt. Ducks and geese, more the early-settler’s speed, were the go-to bird — while the absence of sugar at the time, would’ve made cranberry sauce impossible.
We have to imagine that pilgrims and native Americans had questionable relatives though. See… just like Thanksgiving.
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Hello Denizen is back with their Tiny Hamster series. This time, the adorable rodents are here to give tiny thanks.
A Tiny Hamster Thanksgiving sees a few hamsters and their guest bunny gather around for some small turkey parts and micro-pies. After of which they sit down to watch some gerbil football, until they pass out on tryptophan and merlot.*
*this may or may not have actually happened.
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