Yummy Links (August 8-14 )

Aromatic advertising, bacon intervention, eating the bride, and other Yummy links!

Steak-scented billboard

In the US state of North Carolina, drivers are tempted with the mouth-watering smell of juicy steak as they pass by the Blooms Grocery Store billboard! During the busy hours of 7am-10am, and 4pm-7pm, commuters breathe in air hinted with black pepper and charcoal, thanks to the marketing company ScentAir. Too bad the ad campaign ended on June 18, 2010. Read more at HuffPost Food.
Source:  Associated Press and CBSNews via Huffington Post

Wedding (Taco) Bells

When Paul Brooks proposed to his girlfriend Caragh at a local Taco Bell in Normal, Illinois on New Year’s Eve, they knew the fast food chain was special—so special that they got married there! "It's appropriate," groom Paul Brooks said to Pantagraph . "It's an offbeat relationship." The restaurant was decorated with balloons and streamers. Employees held hot sauce packets labeled “Will you marry me?” The blushing bride wore a $15-dollar wedding gown, and the whole wedding had a price tag of about $200. Not bad for a highly-publicized wedding!

Source: Pantagraph via Huffington Post

Kitchens as walk-in closets?

In New York, where space is precious and pricey, kitchens have been converted into walk-in closets. According to New York Post, kitchenistas—residents who store their clothes in refrigerator in ovens—are increasing. Mike Nouveau, 26, a downtown deejay with a shoe fetish, unplugged his fridge to house his shoes. “I have three rows of shoes in there, and they fit perfectly.” Read more about them here.  
Source: New York Post

High-fat food, addictive like heroin

Studies show that high-fat high-calorie foods food may be addictive.  Eating delicious, fattening junk food like bacon, cheesecake has the same effects as doing drugs like cocaine and heroin. Both “addictions” provide the same pleasure, and achieving that same pleasure requires increasing amounts of food or drugs. In another study, rats have exhibited similar brain changes when given unlimited access to cocaine or heroin. And rats have similarly ignored punishment to continue consuming cocaine, the researchers note.
Source:  CNN

TV chefs’ cravings

Celebrity chefs may fuss about lumpy gravy, but they sure like their junk food. In this article, find out what Mario Batali, Anthony Bourdain, Gordon Ramsay, and Jamie Oliver are all craving for.
Source: Huffington Post

Have your bridal dress and eat it too!

Icelandic designer Lukka Sigurdarottir has just designed—or baked?—the first-ever edible bridal gown, the Cake Dress. According to Lemondrop, the actual dress is painted on the bride, has a sweetheart neckline, and full ball gown skirt that’s made entirely of checkered cake with buttercream frosting on top. Read about the details here.
Source: Lemondrop via Slashfood


Steak-scented billboard from CBSNews  | Cake dress photo from gatherandnest.com | 

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