Mediamatic keeps surprising us with their projects. Since there is a huge overload of onions in The Netherlands, Mediamatic rescued a quarter of a million of them. This weekend you can grab onions for free at the Mediamatic Fabriek.

Today I bought a copy of The Family Meal, a cookbook with meals that were served to the staff of the famous restaurant El Bulli that closed last summer. I haven’t made any of the recipes yet, but I really like the way the book is organized. It also contains great pictures. The recipes are explained using pictures rather than words. Some courses are very straightforward, but isn’t that what we need most of the time?

Last night we went to see the movie El Bulli: Cooking in Progress about the famous restaurant El Bulli whose chef Ferran Adrià is considered one of the most innovative chefs in the world. It is a very fascinating movie about a great bunch of people who create extraordinary food. The documentary follows the team starting from the six months research until the final menu when the restaurant is in full operation. I love the way their menu combines simplicity (a cocktail made of oil and water) with complexity.

Some long-overdue improvement in the working conditions of Florida tomato-harvest workers.

See also: Immokalee, America’s Tomato Capital.

The café chain now has three ‘Panera Cares’ locations where people pay as much or little as they can afford. After one year, the idea seems to be working. ‘People … do the right thing,’ says the company’s founder.

Masterchef: Sara, Tom or Tim - who will win?

A few weeks back, I started an experiment designed to prove or disprove whether or not the magic, non-decomposing McDonald’s hamburgers that have been making their way around the internet are indeed worthy of disgust or even interest.