Interview: Food Artist Duo Bompas + Parr

Talking explosions, inspiration and more at Stella Artois' Le Savoir dinner

There are few among us who have turned food and drink into an adventure as well as Bompas + Parr. The British “food artist” duo, in essence, condensed the idea of dinner theater into a spectacle wherein the edibles are the performer. Their inspiration is vast, from Roald Dahl’s “The Twits” to Stella Artois (whose four season-invoking Le Savoir dinner we met them at) and …

Hacker’s Brew Iced Coffee

A handcrafted mocha- and coconut-milk-infused drink made to boost your brain power

As the coffee industry keeps evolving and growing, another brand is emerging—and making a splash by doing things differently. The CEO of Hacker’s Brew, Elias Ladopoulos (a technologist, investor and well-known co-founder of the Masters of Deception hacker group), loves his coffee. However, Ladopoulos was finding the ups and downs, highs and lows, buzzes and crashes all a little unstable. So Hacker’s Brew was developed …

The Volstead Act Company’s Pre-Prohibition-Inspired Cocktail Syrups

Small-batch, handmade mixers from Los Angeles

Forever on the search for mixers that match the cocktail movement we are all immersed in, we were taken by the efforts of The Volstead Act Company. The Los Angeles-based brand creates four syrups—organic ginger syrup, bitter lime tonic syrup, bitter orange tonic syrup and their best-known naturally red Peruvian tonic syrup—by way of a multi-infusion process that allows layer upon layer of flavor to …