by Nicola | Feb 18, 2010
IMAGE: Increasing disorder in a dining table, by Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till, via deconcrete. This drawing by architects Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till, titled Increasing Disorder In A Dining Table, documents the progression of a meal from a perfectly laid... by Nicola | Feb 12, 2010
IMAGE: Vegetable sheep, New Zealand, via Purse Lip Square Jaw. New Zealand is famous for its sheep. In the early eighties, there were apparently twenty-two sheep in New Zealand for every human, although, by 2008, Meat and Wool New Zealand revealed that this ratio had... by Nicola | Feb 11, 2010
IMAGE: Fast food expenditure per capita, where the darkest (purple) areas spend between $500.01 and $707.75 a head, and the lightest areas (pale blue) spend between $320.64 and $400. All maps via the USDA Food Environment Atlas, except where otherwise noted. IMAGE:... by Nicola | Feb 9, 2010
IMAGE: Some pasta shapes, from L’Enciclopedia della Pasta. UNESCO, the branch of the United Nations that is best known for its list of World Heritage Sites, also curates a number of other programs that aim to record and safeguard natural and cultural treasures.... by Nicola | Jan 30, 2010
Three short stories of food and the city: 1. An analysis of food remains at three sites in Lower Manhattan showed that the kinds of fish eighteenth-century New Yorkers ate changed significantly over time: social archaeologist Nan Rothschild found that “early New... by Nicola | Jan 28, 2010
VIDEO: Made for the New York Public Library’s Mapping New York’s Shorelines exhibition, this video combines historic maps with a Google Earth flyover to reveal the outline of the eighteenth-century Rutgers Farm beneath today’s East Village....