roomthily

El Ejido’s saladscape (via) - the largest concentration of greenhouses in the world

via Edible Geography

sunfoundation:

Mapping America’s Fast Food Regions

Ours is truly a fast food nation—in America, McDonald’s alone serves 28 million people a day. And while you won’t have any trouble finding some sort of fast food wherever you are, you may have trouble finding your preferred eatery. That’s because fast food is, in many ways, a regional affair—even though you’ll find the Golden Arches from coast to coast, certain chains are more predominant in certain parts of the country. Steve Von Worley’s newly updated Beefspace maps reveal the burger fiefdoms you never knew existed.

Age & Language in Lentils (the most spoken languages in the U.S. and UK - lentils = total population, yoghurt = english speakers, basil = italian) by Matt Zumwalt

via Data Cuisine

Have you ever tried to imagine how a fish soup tastes whose recipe is based on publicly available local fishing data? Or what a pizza would be like if it was based on Helsinki’s population mix? Data Cuisine explores food as a means of data expression - or, if you like – edible diagrams.

Danish Rye Bread Elements (Sara Krugman, Momo Miyazaki)

via Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design

The excitement of the process of the manual labor coupled with the anticipation of the results led to 8 hours of serene and slightly obsessive concentration.

Foodmood - global food sentiment via Twitter

Fat or Fiction (Anna Brooks, Christina Winkless, David Paul Rosser)

via It’s Nice That

visualizing meals in Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84

via Spoon & Tamago

Muesli Ingredient Network matrix with surprise factor - 

Here, again, the circles represent link strengths in their area, but now, the saturation and darkness of a circle indicates the “unexpectedness” of that respective link strength. This means that we are not only looking at how often a certain combination occurs, but also, how well we could have predicted that value, by only looking at the “popularity” of the two ingredients in isolation.

via moritz.stefaner.eu

Massive Health (Eatery)

crowdsourced data - how healthy is my meal based on this picture i just took? 

ayjay:

Now that’s what I call an infographic. From a terrific new project, “the newest member of Smithsonian’s digital family,” Design Decoded.