Kelly Pratt loves Sandwiches, especially when they come with a pickle. She has set out to make a typical sandwich for each of the 50 states as a fun way to work on her photography and design skills. It is a delicious journey across the US. For each sandwich she does research on the Internet, [...]
Sometime in the 1860s the enterprising French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès made an important discovery. He took a pound of beef tallow soaked beforehand in a solution of 15 percent common salt and 1 percent sulfate of soda, slowly rendered it at 103 degrees Fahrenheit, poured in gastric juices of a pig, and sprinkled it with [...]
Over on Dinahfried.com are a cracking series of photographs that recreate the meals of famous fictional characters. Featuring food from the likes of The Catcher in the Rye, Oliver Twist, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Moby Dick, it’s a fascinating look at the lesser examined aspects of literature. Click [...]
Why does McDonald’s food look so much better in the ads than at the restaurant? Watch as the director of marketing for McDonald’s Canada buys a Quarter Pounder at McDonald’s and compares that to a burger prepared by a food stylist and retouched in post by an image editor. We can’t quite tell whether this [...]
Photographer and beverage enthusiast William LeGoullon decided to explore his love of the liquids on a microscopic level, and these fascinating photos of your favourite beverages are the result. Pictured above is the beautiful, leaf-like structure of beer, and William’s series includes the other four most consumed beverages- tea, coffee, wine and cola. It’s like [...]
We all know that our tears contain high amounts of salt – and other nutrients too, but that’s not important right now. So it seems completely logical then that the Hoxton Street Monster Store has bottled our tears and is now selling them as a commodity. Salt Made From Tears combines centuries-old craft with the [...]
Get ready for the most aesthetically delicious, minimalist towers of food you’ve ever seen. Inspired by British artist and Turner Prize winner Martin Creed’s makeover of London’s famous Sketch restaurant, Dutch design duo Raw Color deconstructed and posed some of the menu’s signature items like so: A lobster tail balanced on a coconut balanced on [...]
This amazing infographic shows 24 hours of eating habits around the world. Built by Massive Health, it’s an aggregation of 7.68 million self-reported food ratings over a five-month period. It’s a simple, effective heat map that shows, while cultures may all have their own version of junk food, we all manage to dig it up [...]
From the late 1970′s artist Sandy Skoglund has used colour photography to create images that continue to be effective and topical. Corn, cake, carrots cut into cubes and other natural products are presented in strange ways, placed against colourful backgrounds which deceive the common perception. Sandy says, “I used the subject of food as a [...]
During a two month residency in the fall of 2011, Anja Hitzenberger documented a temporary food court set up inside Beijing’s Olympic Park. The photos culminated into a solo exhibition titled: Take Out: Chinese Fast Food Photographs by Anja Hitzenberger, which is currently showing at New York’s UNDERLINE Gallery through May 13. Click the pic [...]
