Photographer Nacho Alegre, along with graphic designers Ana Dominguez and Omar Sosa, came up with a bright idea for photographing bread- stack the loaves into leaning towers and capture the crusty balancing act for Apartamento magazine.
Somewhere a bakery window designer will be inspired by these layouts, and the balance of bread will be restored...
Link --via My Modern Met
Still putting orange juice in your mimosas? Psshh...talk about boring. These days, it's all about orange sorbet and if you can add homemade orange sorbet like the one at the link has, all the better. I can't imagine ever having a plain mimosa after trying one of these guys.
What happens to a hamburger when its fundamental design is left in the hands of malicious graphic designers? Behold Fat & Furious, a project by French designers Thomas and Quentin. They've reimagined the burger in ways that will shock the mind and stomach, including this one due to arrive in just a few days. It has bacon, beef, scamorza cheese, red cabbage and salt.
Link and Official Website -via Bit Rebels
One of my favorite videos from the past year features a German family working together in the kitchen. In case you need it, here's a handy translation from a YouTube commenter:
- Daddy, how do you get along with the iPad we gave you at your birthday?
- Very well
- And you can handle all those apps?
- What apps? Step aside, please. What's the matter?
It is just one from the list of the 23 Best Food Videos The Internet Gave Us In 2012. You'll enjoy the others as well! Link
These Santa suits are made of confectionery coating molded around plastic cups, then accented with modeling chocolate, then filled with candy. Basically, they're pure sugar. Feed them to your kids immediately before leaving them in someone else's care.
Link -via Tasteologie
To make kristylynn84's unicorn horn cookies, first make sugar cookie dough in several different colors. Roll them into sticks, then twist them around cream horn forms. Make small circular cookies to serve as caps. Bake, then stuff with candy.
Shoot, make them big enough, and you could probably fill them with unicorn poop cookies.
Link -via That's Nerdalicious!
From dead red shirts to Flynn's arcade to Serenity, you'd be amazed how fantastic these sci fi gingerbread creations Miss C wrote about on Mental Floss are.
As if these little TMNT pancakes weren't awesome enough, the fact that each one has a plate and fruit that matches its mask makes them cross the line from cool to epically cool.
Hungry? Need to send a tweet? Now you no longer have to choose between eating and wasting time online. The Senbei Rice Cracker iPhone 5 case is technically food and will provide some impact resistance to your smartphone. It's now sold out, but the more enterprising among you could probably make one at home.
P.S. Need an iPhone case? Check out our selections at the NeatoShop!
Finally, couples no longer have to share their potato chips, they can both enjoy their own unique bag of crunchy, contrasting flavor at the same time with these couples chips 2 pack by Japanese snack maker Koikeya. Their potato chip love affair was both sweet and sour...
The name of this product says it all, because as soon as you take one bite of what would normally be a cool and creamy peanut spread your mouth fills with the flames of hell.
Instant Regret has extract from both Habanero and King Naga chilis, and measures 12 million on the Scoville scale. You're gonna need a lot more than jelly to put out the fire Instant Regret leaves in your mouth!
Link --via Laughing Squid
Now, if you are hosting a Christmas party and have all the food and treats covered, but you're still looking for something that will make your guests go "Whoa!!" when they see it, this will fill the bill. Make ice cubes with rosemary sprigs and berries to look all Christmassy. Instructions and more holiday drink tips are at Funkytime. Link -via Buzzfeed
The Renaissance brought about a revival in classical cookery, including a 1541 edition of a classic Roman cookbook. A 1905 issue of The Strand describes it:
One of these bears the date 1541, and amongst the dishes herein enumerated we may find hot-pots of cowheel, pickled broom buds, and Tetrapharmacon, of which the latter delicacy we are told that it was made of pheasant, peacock, a wild sow's hock and udder, with a bread pudding over it.
The manuscript also contained a recipe for yummy dormouse sausages and this handy if vague chart for butchering an elephant.
Yes, it's a delicious leech, but there's more! Cakes for Breakfast made this leech out of chocolate. It also made a chocolate crested slug, crested newt, snail, earthworm and eel. Dig in!
Link -via Nerdcore | Baker's Facebook Gallery
"Cuteness is futile. You will be assimilated. We will add your aesthetic distinctiveness to our own." Laura's cake, complete with a raised occular implant, will bring you into its collective consciousness.
