December 30, 2008 – 6:57 pm
by Tory Davis WHAT’S HAPPENING An unusual new cookbook, likely the first of its kind, has been published online: The Testicle Cookbook, Cooking With Balls. This offal masterpiece comes to us via an Eastern European, ball loving chef named Ljubomir R. Erovic, in both English and Serbian versions replete with video instruction on how to [...]
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Posted in Consumer Trend, Food/Beverage
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Tagged Best of 2008, Competitive eating, Consumer trends, Cooking With Balls, Eating testicles, Iconoculture, Iconowatch, Online books, Organ meat cooking, Prairie oysters, The Testicle Cookbook
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December 30, 2008 – 3:11 pm
by Josh Kimball Crank up the “Auld Lang Syne.” It’s the end of a long year, and while each annual trashing of the calendar holds its own special meaning, this page change is especially big. At Iconoculture we watch the trends — large and small — that shape consumer culture. And this year’s shifts were [...]
December 30, 2008 – 10:34 am
by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING Online outfit aggregator Polyvore has been helping fashionistas compose their closets with its mood board tools; now the site is taking the same concept to help DIY decorators design their digs. The Interior Design section lets consumers collect home goods pics from around the web. They can save the images [...]
December 30, 2008 – 5:27 am
by Hillary Smith WHAT’S HAPPENING Think coed floors and bathrooms spell awkward moments in college? Try coed dorm rooms. A growing number of schools are adopting less stringent policies around cohabitation on-campus. Liberal colleges like Hampshire, Wesleyan and Oberlin have offered coed rooms for a few years now. But students at universities from New York to Stanford [...]