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The sweet shop of the future will offer smaller portions in more elaborate forms, thanks to 3D printers adapted for food use.
Willy Wonka-esque candy floss lamps and edible diamonds were just some of the futuristic creations developed by self-proclaimed "food futurologist" Morgaine Gaye and award-winning British chocolatier Paul A Young at Future Fest, an event held in London this month.
They looked at the factors they thought likely to alter the landscape of confectionary manufacturing, and predicted that sweets as we know them were going to change dramatically over the next 20 years and beyond.
Perhaps the Chocolate Room isn't so far away after all. Let's hope chiral sugars arrive before it does...
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(Score: 2) by CRCulver on Thursday March 26 2015, @08:56PM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TrumpetPower! on Thursday March 26 2015, @10:08PM
Erm...you seriously don't expect me to reproduce a complete gardening guide in the comments, down to climate zones and zoning ordinances, do you?
If you've got a garden that you can actually grow things in, there're all sorts of sweets you can grow there. Even in the Desert Southwest, we have native cacti with quite tasty fruit -- and some of them you'll find in landscaping where they don't receive any supplemental water or other care. If you can't grow figs, you might be able to grow blueberries. And so on.
The point isn't whether or not you can construct a scenario where somebody "lives" in a clean room environment that they're not permitted to sneeze.
The point is that, if you have an edible garden, chances are good you're already growing candy because that's the sort of thing gardeners do.
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All but God can prove this sentence true.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2015, @11:59PM
It's a shame that that kind of ignorance persists in so many places.
With European honeybees, don't bother them and they won't bother you.
They're actually quite docile. [ixquick.com]
Now, I did hear of an event south of Los Angeles concerning Africanized bees ("killer" bees).
3 dogs were stung to death.
Some accounts reported "thousands" of bees involved.
I found it difficult to believe there was a "hive" of bees that large and the property owner wasn't aware of it and I had to look up more details. [newsantaana.com]
-- gewg_