スズの甘いパンすることができます
My roommate and fellow Sandberg Institute designer Judith van der Velden was busy this afternoon making Danish sweet breads. She’d just returned from Copenhagen and couldn’t wait to try making the dish at home. This reminded me of some interesting sweet buns I had once in Japan, which then reminded me of one of the strange things that gives such interest to food and design culture: the collision of radically different ideas. Take bread and cans for example.
In the summer of 2004, when I arrived in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi district around 4 in the morning, there weren’t many places to eat a pre-petit déjeuner. That is, until I discovered Japanese vending machines. I found canned coffee and café au lait for sale, as well as this weird canned sweet bun, like the ones pictured here. It was a little dry, but flavorful nevertheless. It may not have been a culinary masterpiece, but it was definitely the ultimate object of surprise and convenience.
—MC
