The December Dripper

Brewing experts in San Francisco and Seoul collaborate on a new way to make coffee

Nicholas Cho and Youngmin Lee’s December Dripper, launching on Kickstarter today, aims to revolutionize coffee brewing through a new adjustable brew flow. Together, Lee and Cho have over 35 years of combined professional coffee experience. The December Dripper, made of 1810 stainless steel with a layer of PTFE (aka Teflon) for smooth turning, is the duo’s first product as a design team. With its global …

Redesigning Sausages

With the concept of sausage as her vessel, ECAL alum and designer Carolien Niebling presented reduced meat creations during the recent Milan Design Week, in an effort to draw attention to the dangers of vast meat consumption. Niebling refers to sausage as the oldest designed food, and explains that all materials involved have been selected for form and function. Using traditional sausage-making techniques, the designer …

Tamworth Distilling’s Blue Lion Chicorée Liqueur

An amaro-like spirit, from the independent distillery, highlighting the elusive flavor

by Emily Bihl Chicory may be well known throughout the country as the secret ingredient in “New Orleans-style coffee,” but even in the Crescent City it’s hard to find the flavor unattached to its coffee companion. In fact, even the denizens of New Orleans might be hard-pressed to describe what chicory itself tastes like. This is why New Hampshire independent distillery Tamworth Distilling’s latest venture …