Honibe - Honey You Can Hold ~ like the sugarcube equivalent for honey!

Amazon Upgrade ~ interesting move by Amazon, letting you "upgrade" your physical books to digital books you can read online, search, annotate, etc. Especially interesting for searching all your recipes!

TasteSpotting Roundup ~ top 25 from the last week!

Papabubble ~ Incredible playful candy made by hand daily from sugar, glucose, + water ~ coolhunting's video even takes you behind the scenes and shows you the whole process!

Beertender ~ a collaboration between Krups and Heineken to keep your mini keg ready for 30 days of perfect draught beer at your fingertips.

Design*Sponge goes in the kitchen with la tartine gourmand's béatrice peltre!!! Dark chocolate and nut muffins and Bicolor soup recipes in this gorgeous post!

How to make an Edible Martini (video) ~ a gin/vermouth infused flash pickled cucumber... a scientific/culinary alternative to jello shots for your next party?

Sheridan's Coffee Layered Liqueur ~ finally tracked down a bottle, and it is still the coolest bottle design yet. The two separate black and white filled glass bottle share a cap, which pours perfectly layered drinks.

Wow. This week Just One Plate shows us how to make French Toast with Bourbon-Pecan Topping & Vanilla Whipped Cream... from Square One in LA!

Remember Strega Nona's Magical Pasta Pot, and when Big Anthony has pasta everywhere? Here's the installation: Heute bleibt die Küche kalt, wir gehen in den Wienerwald by Marlene Haring, 2004...

Alessi's 2008 Spring/Summer collection is here ~ and this is a beautiful bottle opener from the Alessi founder's great grandson! Pop-Up

Justinsomnia gets creative with Mushroom Lasagna ~ fresh pasta sheets and quite the assortment of farmer's market shrooms!

Great post on the Deadliest Delicacies ~ Come Dine with Death... from the infamous fugu to Live Octopus, Cassava, Giant Bullfrog, Ackee Fruit, Silver Stripe Blaasop, Echizen Jellyfish... and videos too!

Just One Plate finds out how to make Fantasia Di Crudo from Santa Monica's Il Grano!

Just One Plate chats with Madame Chocolat ~ and discovers her recipe for Amour Caramel Hearts

It's time for Weekend Roundups! Best from across the sites this week showcased on NOTCOT.

Mmmmm Burlwood Chocolate Vault ~ 7 drawers of chocolate complete with temperature and humidity gauges

New to the bottled water market ~ Y Water ~ for kids, bottle designed by Yves Behar, and when emptied you can build structures out of them!

Built NY's Wine Ratchet (following in the Magnum's footsteps)... is a lighter weight ratcheting corkscrew constructed from lightweight rubber and includes a rubberized foil knife with a stainless steel tip

Vosges' Chocolate has a $375 gift set: Chocolate and the Nose: The Sensory Collection. Chocolates from 15 countries, 42 aromas, guidebook, flavor wheel, notebook, and a blindfold!

Culver City's two year old, Ford's Filling Station, catered the FORDBRADY cocktail party to welcome Dwell magazine to Los Angeles.

Crumble de foie gras de canard ~ ready to eat in 20 min, with an optional 5 min in the over to get the crumble crunchy! Apparently its an easy off label as well for nice presentation

Fred launched a giant Batter Finger Spatula

Fred's Equal Measure ~ beaker/measuring cup ~ with not just cups and ozs, but also but things like 5000 droplets of water and 20,000 grains of rice marked

This week i'm mixing it up again (trying to find what feels right!) ~ so check out the Roundup Maddness at NOTCOT.com ~ with 5 of my picks from each site, and the top 24 from the last week!

Since post #8489, i've been hooked on Just Bento's Furikake series... she even has one one that is a "sweet bacon" furikake that is apparently delicious sprinkled on rice!

Oval Office Eats for $500 ~ The Waldorf has hosted every US President since Hoover, and now they have a tasting menu! (and recipes too!)

This week Design*Sponge goes in the kitchen with Curiosity Shoppe! And we get to learn how to make their favorite granola!

Miracle Fruit aka MAGIC BERRIES! Review... i got my hands on some of these magical red berries that turn anything sour/bitter that you eat... SWEET! It's quite a bizarre experience, see the close up pictures.

For those who truly love how unique each and every veggie is... broccoli and cauliflower cast in silver and peas in gold on necklaces by Otto von Quast

Playing with my roundup toy (and introducing our Randomizer - beta)... here are the top 16 of 24 posts that were popular this last week!

WSJ article with video ~ about the The World's Hottest Chili - It's 200 times hotter than the jalapeño.... and you can see a guy try and eat one.

Valentine's Candy Hearts in three variations: Dejected, Dysfunctional, and Dumped. And in the dumped selection there is even one that says "U HAVE A BLOG".

The Chocolate Eater 3600 kcal Necklace ~ there are also matching pins and earrings... an edible jewelry collection Jeannette Jansen

Today design*sponge goes in the kitchen with artist Matte Stephens ~ to make his ooey gooey chocolate cakes!

Tic Tac Toast! from NOTCOT.org #8420

Mmmm Steamy Kitchen's fried egg with oyster sauce... and chili! A delicious twist to my usual late night bite.

Carlos Aires' Bar Alter Ego installation ~ a perspective changing mixed media installation wood, cava wine, glasses, fun fair lights, bar accessories & dwarf waiters, variable size.

Chewable Ice ~ aka pearl ice, nugget ice, etc ~ WSJ says this is a hot trend? Amusing video coverage as well as article.

LX.tv has an interview with the Zagats ~ yes, those Zagats... the couple behind the restaurant review book series

Jin Patisserie ~ one of my favorite local hide outs (delicious high tea in such a zen space) ~ has a La Vie En Rose tea set to go with 5 adorable lacquered tins of tea!

Weekend TasteSpotting *best of bacon*round up ~ with over 80 posts on bacon here... about 1% of tastespotting is incredible bacon recipes... like vodka, kettle corn, chocolate, spa wraps, scones, cupcakes...

Design*Sponge goes in the kitchen with Lotta Jansdotter who shares her recipe for Parsnip Soup

Otto Espresso ~ gorgeous new twist on a classic stovetop espresso maker design... supposedly makes two perfect lattes!