Realistic Looking Plastic Food in Japanese Restaurants

Restaurants in Japan often display mouth watering food in their windows – sushi, noodles, burgers, soup, and ice cream. But they are not mea...

Appetite Killing Chinese Food

What People Eat Around the World

Photojournalist Peter Menzel and his wife and writer Faith D'Aluisio, from California, spent three years travelling to 30 countries visi...

Street Food Vendors From Around the World

In general understanding, street food is a quick meal or drink sold in a street or other public place, such as a market or fair, by a vendor...

Creative Food Art by Hong Yi

Hong Yi is a talented Malaysian artist and architect who uses all sorts of unconventional objects to create portraits. She was featured twi...

50 Years of NASA’s Space Food

NASA’s Advanced Food Technology Project is responsible for providing space flight crews with a food system that is safe, nutritious, and ac...

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel

In the book Hungry Planet , photographer Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio present a photographic study of families from around the world...

Insects as Food

Entomophagy is the practice of eating insects as food. While it is common for many insects, birds and animals to indulge themselves, people ...

The Disgusting Food Museum

A new museum aimed to assault the olfactory senses of visitors and churn their stomach opened yesterday in Sweden’s third largest city, Mal...

Delicious Looking Faux Food Soaps by Aubrey Elizabeth

Aubrey Elizabeth is a Boston-based artist and founder of Aubrey Elizabeth Apothecary, a fun and clever line of bath and body goods such as f...

Sarah Jacob: The Girl Who Starved to Death to Prove Herself

There have been quite a few cases where people claimed to have survived without food. These people call themselves “breatharians” for they p...

Cakes and Sweets that look like Fast Food

Cake designer Debbie Goard bakes cakes and sweet treats that look like fast foods and other savoury snacks. Her company, Debbie does Cakes,...

Astronaut Sandra Magnus Cooks in Zero Gravity

Food for astronauts working aboard the International Space Station usually come precooked and packaged in such a way so that it can be eaten...

The Scientists Who Starved to Death Surrounded By Food

The 900-day Siege of Leningrad during the Second World War was perhaps one of the most gruesome sieges in modern history. Hitler’s diabolic ...

Miniature Food Sculptures by Kim Burke

American sculptor and artist Kim Burke loves to create 1/12th scale miniatures of food from polymer clay. Her food sculptures look amazing...

Navid Baraty’s Fictional Space Photos Are Just Food on a Scanner

New York based photographer Navid Baraty (previously featured for his stunning photos of New York City Intersection ) who works for high pro...

Ann Moore: The Fasting Woman of Tutbury

Ann Moore was in her late 40s when she became famous as the ‘fasting woman’ of Tutbury. She claimed that she had not eaten any solid food fo...

That Time When America Banned Sliced Bread

Modern life is full of conveniences but few things are as convenient as sliced bread. Just think about it. To make a sandwich all you need ...

Food Cut in Half: Photography by Beth Galton

New York-based food photographer Beth Galton , together with food stylist Charlotte Omnès, took these amazing photographs of different dishe...

Abu Hureyra, The Place Where Humans Became Farmers

Civilization is said to have begun independently across the world at six sites, dubbed the “cradle of civilization. Two of these are in the ...