I'm not sure what cheers me up more this incredibly dreary, incredibly wet East Coast morning: that Louisiana's 2007 State Easter Egg has a tiny Emeril inside of it, or that there is a guy named Jacob out there somewhere who loves the Food Network so much that he's been running a blog called Food Network Addict since last June. (And yes, he has the photos from Iron Chef Cat Cora's FHM shoot.)... More
"Andy and Angel have been painting with coffee for several years, and have completed hundreds of original artworks. Curious people who view the work are amazed that the artwork is painted entirely in coffee - no additives, just 100% pure coffee." They have a gallery of coffee-themed paintings, but they really do paint everything with coffee: portraits, wildlife, flowers, scenes from trips to Scandinavia. [via Tastespotting]... More
From A Hamburger Today | Last week Serious Eats's Alaina Browne blogged about Value Pack, the typeface made from hamburger meat. Today, I bring you the man behind the meatfont, Robert Bolesta What inspired you to create Value Pack? It was made for a typography class I was taking at Pratt Institute. The project was to make an alphabet out of any found object. I wanted to do raw meat, and hamburger was the easiest to mold and shape into letter-forms. What, if anything, does Value Pack say to the observer? It was intended to be just a type study, but I suppose there are other levels of meaning, if you choose to read into it. I made it before... More
Tasting Rachael Ray by Naomi Lebowitz is a video composed of Ray's money shots after tasting something on her Food Network show $40 A Day. Lebowitz used clips from more than 30 episodes of the show to make the video, which is a fun watch whether you love or hate Rachael Ray. [via Gawker]... More
Since 2000, my friend the Brooklyn artist Ranjit Bhatnagar has been buying food at his neighborhood Saturday greenmarket and scanning his purchases in high-resolution when he gets home, and so you can see a set of his lovely greenmarket produce scans on Flickr. They're mostly of fruit and vegetables, but occasionally meat, eggs and fish will make an appearance, like in the scan at left. Some of my favorites: a nest of eggs and cilantro, scallion in a sea of popcorn, and a study of reds and greens. (Click on "all sizes" to see them larger and close up—they get even more intense when they're sized larger than life so buy a print if you see something you like!)... More
A full third of the Serious Eats staff* owns prints of this lovely painting by German artist Michael Sowa. You can get one for yourself for $19.99 at Art.com, or you can get the hardcover book Sowa's Ark and see the Diving Pig plus 54 more of his animal paintings for $24.95 from Amazon. * Two people, but we carry big sticks.... More
At right is a piece titled Bubba by SF Bay Area artist Stuart L. Wagner, a pig made out of pork rinds and wood. Finally, a sculpture Homer Simpson can appreciate!... More
The post-impressionist still life of a ham at right "pays homage to Cezanne and Manet while equaling both in its rigor and sensuousness," and was one of the painter Paul Gauguin's first real masterpieces, painted in 1889 before his famous move to Tahiti. The Ham is now part of the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., but Fine Art Prints On Demand will happily sell you a print if you'd like one for your wall.)... More
Food Creation: Designing Tasteful Frictions. Tokyo-based design magazine PingMag interviews food artist Ayako Suwa, who got started creating dishes to accompany exhibitions at her husband's art gallery.... More
