Toast Magazine

A creative celebration of food and ideas, the new UK magazine is a delightful look at the cultural side of gastronomy

You might be thinking the world is already saturated with beautiful, niche print publications glorifying the culinary industry—we know we’ve covered several over the past few years (which still remain worthwhile reads). But UK newcomer Toast has a different take on what makes an exciting story about food and drink. Readers won’t find restaurant reviews, recipes or overly stylized food porn photos here; instead, founders …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

NASA launches Orion, Peter Marino gets real about retail, touchable holograms and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Eco-Friendly Air Conditioning A new material developed by Stanford University’s Dr Aaswath Raman is potentially going to revolutionize the way we keep cool. Made from ultra-thin layers of silicon dioxide, hafnium dioxide and silver (for reflectivity), the new material is able to radiate as much as 97% of sunlight back into the frigid vastness of outer-space while still remaining cool itself. When tested, a …

Peter Marino’s Retail Reality Check

With all the advancements in e-commerce over the last few years and the slew of new brands opening as online-only, people have been finding it more and more difficult to find a reason to visit a brick-and-mortar store—especially department stores where levels of seemingly endless racks of product are daunting. The architect and interior designer responsible for many luxury boutiques and department stores, Peter Marino …