Embedded Drinks
Spanish food designer Martí Guixé has created Embedded Drinks – a series of edible snacks infused with spirited alcohol.
Inspired by the Catalonian tradition of soaking bread in wine and sugar for children, Embedded Drinks saturates five biscuits with a different alcoholic beverage – tequila, red wine, vodka, whiskey or gin. The biscuits are tailor-made to enhance the unique properties of each spirit. For example, the whiskey biscuit has various sized holes, which oxygenates the whiskey as it’s poured – enhancing the flavour. The hexagonal snack for vodka is flavoured with pepper to draw out certain tastes in the transparent spirit.
Guixé says: “An embedded drink is not a cake soaked in alcohol, but an intelligent container [used] to taste in a much more technical [manner] without the need of a glass or a cup.”
Embedded Drinks is part of Tapas: Spanish Design for Food – an exhibition of Spanish cuisine on display at the Spanish embassy in Tokyo.