Tag: cooking
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Time to Bake With The Coolest Rolling Pins Ever!
When we last showed you Polish designer Zuzia Kozerska‘s awesome series of laser-engraved rolling pins (see HERE), there was so much interest in them that the resultant traffic crashed her site! (sorry Zuzia!) So with the Holiday Season/Christmas/Festivous/New Year period fast approaching, why not consider one of Zuzia’s amazing rolling pins to bring a little bit of extra sparkle to your baking…
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Creative Sketches That Incorporate Everyday Objects
In an ongoing series called “Sunday Sketch”, Christoph Niemann incorporates everyday objects in fun and creative ways, playing with perspective and reimagining the objects as something else entirely. Niemann is an illustrator, artist, and author. His work has appeared on the covers The New Yorker, Time, Wired and The New York Times Magazine. Since July 2008, Niemann has been writing and illustrating…
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Scrum-didly-umptious Meals That Are Actually CAKES
For the last 10 years, Debbie Does Cakes has been creating custom sculpted cakes for customers in the San Francisco Bay area. By Debbie’s account, “a sculpted cake is a cake carved by hand to resemble anything other than cake”. Debbie does not design traditional cakes of any kind, focusing strictly on one of a kind centerpieces;…
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People From Around the World Next to the Amount of Food They Eat Every Day
Photographer Peter Menzel and writer Faith D’Aluisio traveled the around the world for three years. Their mission was to visit and document the eating habits of 80 people from incredibly diverse backgrounds. What they discovered delivers a hard hitting dose of perspective. What they did was photograph individuals with the amount and type of food they…
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Spooky Tableware by Ronit Baranga Uses Realistic Mouths and Fingers
Israeli ceramicist Ronit Baranga‘s “body of work” is unsettling, to say the least. Sculpted from clay, realistic fingers emerge from plates while mouths lurk inside cups. The gnarled fingers and lips seem poised for action. We would most certainly hesitate before using any of these for fear of being bitten. The mouth is an interesting element…
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An Adorable Loch Ness Cooking Ladle
The next time you’re cooking up a hot pot of soup, why not reach for this adorable ladle? The Nessie Ladle has the body shape of the mysterious Loch Ness monster but this guy’s got stubby little legs so that it can stand on its own. Designed by Ototo for the modern store Animi Causa,…
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Happy Thanksgiving! How Famous Artists Would Serve Thanksgiving Dinner
In this quirky series of photos titled “Thanksgiving Special”, San Francisco-based artist Hannah Rothstein imagines Thanksgiving dinners as plated by famous artists throughout history. Gravy, corn, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce, and even the plate itself is used as a medium for edible artworks in the style of Jackson Pollock, Cindy Sherman, Georges Seurat, and Vincent van Gogh.…
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Competition Showcases the Most Amazing Cakes You’ll Ever See
The Threadcakes online cake competition, which wrapped up on November 3rd this year, features some of the most stunning works of cake art we’ve ever seen. The contest, which has been running annually since 2007, invites both professionals and amateurs to create cakes in either the 2D or 3D categories based on art from the…
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Photo Series Showing the Difference in Calories Between Desserts Made With Unhealthy & Healthy Ingredients
One of the most popular blogs we’ve ever posted showed what 200 calories looked like in different foods. Since this blog went viral all over the interwebs (15 million views and counting!), we’ve had our thinking caps on to find a suitable follow up. And we think we’ve done it. With the help of Jess at My…
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The Most Creative Chocolate Creations You Have Ever Seen!
Chocolate has come a very long way since it first appeared in its solid form in Europe in the 1800s. Today, artists can manipulate and mold this sweet and delicious confection to create works of art or cleverly designed treats. Before European confectioners even thought of giving chocolate a solid form, civilizations in Mesoamerica had…