Potato Chip World

By the looks of it, someone got bored with their basket of chips at the bar.


Artist Unknown

Potato(e)s previously on Cartophilia

HT to Carol

Kaffeslump World

Erik Johansson, of Gothenburg, Sweden, is a photographer who likes to have fun with Photoshop.

Kaffeslump (Coffee Spill?):



Via Bored Panda

Cracking Cheese, Gromit!

It's British Food Fortnight! And when it comes to British food, who doesn't love a good cheese? Cheddar, Cheshire, Cotswold, Stilton, and of course, Wensleydale.

Mark Easton, at the BBC, offers his Map of the Week: Cheese



This map was taken from the World Cheese Book, by Juliet Harbutt.

Cheese is good!

HT to Gail Townsley

McUSA

Stephen Von Worley, at Weather Sealed, asks the question, "Just how far away can you get from our world of generic convenience?" How far can you get from a McDonald's restaurant?

So, he created a map:



He created "a visualization of the contiguous United States, colored by distance to the nearest domestic McDonald’s!" Not too surprising, the Golden Arches® are never far from the horizon.

The answer to the question, by the way, is in South Dakota.

Don't get me wrong. I'm no McDonald's hater. Every few weeks, I treat myself to my favorite breakfast fast-food sandwich, the Sausage Egg & Cheese McGriddle®. MMMMmmmm sweet savory greasy goodness. However, when looking at the map at full resolution, it is hard to not think of the fat globules clogging my arteries:



Via The Map Room

United Steaks of America

Last month, I posted a photo of a steak map of the United States. The photo was sent to me by a carto-friend, but I could not find the source or the artist...

This morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Huffington Post had set up a gallery of this "steak art" by photographer and "food artist" Dominic Episcopo: The United Steaks of America.



You can even vote on your favorite ribeye or sirloin state.

Its a Heat Wave! (Burning in my heart)

The U.S. is in the middle of a heat wave... we're feeling sort of grilled...

Just like a heatwave
Burning in my heart
Can't keep from cryin'
It's tearing me apart

HT to Matt

UPDATE 9/5: Food artist identity discovered!

Apple and Potatoe Worlds

Kevin Van Aelst's color photographs "include every day foods and objects: bread, doughnuts, crackers, candy, floor tile, sweaters, and lint. These simple materials are arranged into shapes and patterns inspired by formulas found in science and mathematics, such as fractal geometry, chaos theory, biology and chemistry."

And geography!

Apple Globe, 2007, Digital C-Print




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Discovering that crunchy map reminded me to pull out and scan this advertisement I saved from a restaurant industry magazine back in the 1990's.

McCain Foods Limited, is the world's largest producer of frozen french fries.

Sadly, neither of these works of art can be found in any museum. Hopefully they ended up on someone's plate...