Charlie Davidson’s Hasta la Pasta is part of the redesign (tagline: for designers who don’t want to make landfill) Lighten Up collection of lamps that have vastly reduced environmental impact. Making products out of food – like these spoons and these espresso cups – guarantees that they compost well and affords alternative uses – especially when you’re really, really hungry. But this example – being a non-food-related item – helps bring home another point: all materials could considered in terms of food equivalent; both socially (who gets designer furniture vs. who doesn’t get to eat) and environmentally (how much energy goes towards making food vs. how much goes toward making stuff). Next to living in a gingerbread house, making our furnishings from food brings us a little closer to home.