Pop Goes the Kernel: If you’ve 12 seconds to spare, use them to watch the moment when a single kernel of corn explodes into the popped puff we love to pour butter over. It’s a dramatic coming-of-age tale, told by the folks at Modernist Cuisine, who slowed down the transformative moment to 6,200 frames per second. [ eater.com]

Green Machines: Now that vending machines are dispensing fresh produce, why not create ones that actually grow them? Japanese company Dentsu has crafted exactly that, and no sunlight is even required. Take that, science! One of these portable garden machines can grow up to 20,000 heads of lettuce per year, and it only costs $90,000. [ re-nest.com]

Would You Like to See the Wine iPad? Clunky paper wine lists are so 2009. Now, some restaurants are going digital with their wine selections, uploading the whole shebang to an iPad from which patrons can click to see specific details for each bottle. How will this trend translate to wine sales? One sommelier says it won’t. “Looking at the iPad is great,” Hong Kong’s L’Atelier’s sommelier Benoît Allauzen tells the Wall Street Journal. “But it is still the sommelier who gives you his services to introduce the wine.” [ blogs.wsj.com] [ Food Network Mobile]

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