Here’s a solution to a problem commonly seen at holiday parties,
or any party for that matter where people share food. When you
bring your homemade spinach dip or guacamole to a party, you
must remember to take back your container (usually a
“Flubberware” of plastic poison), or even worse, use a
disposable container that ends up in landfill. With edible
containers, you don’t have to worry about polluting or
retrieving your container after the party is over. Diane Bisson,
a Montreal design professor, has developed edible materials that
can be moulded into containers. She insists that they are unlike
the corn- or potato-based comestible plates that have been
tested in Europe and taste like cardboard. “I’ve spent a year
testing about 400 different samples to come up with 40 recipes,”
said Bisson, 49, who teaches at the Université de Montréal’s
School of Industrial Design. “The whole purpose of this is
sustainable design,” she said. “It’s all about reducing
disposable objects, the cardboard and plastic plates tha