The Food Section: Appetizers

Eggcidents Happen

Several 100-foot wide sunny-side up eggs presently grace the city square of Leeuwarden, a town in the north of the Netherlands.

The Shape of Things

A photo gallery of packaged foods that take on the shape of their containers. Via Swiss Miss.

The New Black: Milk Bottle Lights

Milk jugs and bottles reinvented as light fixtures (more here too).

Farm Art

This summer, the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens, will transform its courtyard into a temporary urban farm.

The Exhaust Burger

Power your tailpipe to grill a burger and cook dinner while commuting home.

Bean Art

Japanese artist Takao Sakai uses adzuki beans as a medium for his art, which includes bean beards and a batman mask made of beans. Via Core77.

Built With Bread

New concepts in bread design -- from a baguette with a built-in handle to a baked birdhouse.

The Fine Art of Shrimp Calligraphy

Brushstrokes on a plate are deftly painted with fried shrimp and sauce. Via Japan Probe.

Edible Origami

Paper cranes for your salad? Take a wonton wrapper, fold it like origami, then deep fry. Via kottke.

Best Stools

Design: The stools of New York restaurants: best in show.

Spoon Art

Art & Design: A photographic ode to spoons.

Prêt à Manger:

Art & Design: Prêt à Manger: Eight new concepts in restaurant design. Via cp.

Squished Food Art

Art & Design: "Deliciously disgusting" photographs of squished food.

Julia Child, Rendered in Corn

Art & Design: A corn maze in Sunderland, Massachusetts, bears the likeness of Julia Child (more).

Frankfurt Kitchen

Art & Design: The New York Times looks at the 1920s modernist Frankfurt Kitchen, one of the first "fitted kitchens," with integrated units, continuous work surfaces, and various built-ins, currently on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Victoria & Albert Museum.

Farm Portraits

Art and Design: Portraits of farm animals with their owners. Via bb.

Ice Fishing Shacks

Art & Design: Beautiful images of ice fishing shacks, standing alone against the wilderness: "The photographs are taken on milky days in rain, fog and snow, when the light is filtered and the range of color is extremely narrow. This makes the shacks appear all the more mysterious, as if they have been airlifted onto the scene." Via cp.

Eating Architecture

Art and Design: Artist Emily Katrencik, who has been eating her way through the wall of her Brooklyn gallery since Jan. 1, is just days away from completing her art project/meal. How does the wall taste? "The dry wall has a very mild flavour," she told The Guardian. "The texture is more prominent than the taste - it's a chalky flavour with tiny little sharp pieces in it." Mmmm. Visitors can join in the fun by eating bread made with minerals extracted from the wall. The exhibition closes on Feb. 27.

The Crackers

Art and Design: Like The Gates, but with a peanut butter filling: The Crackers. Via afb.

Vegetable Orchestra

Food Art: Founded in 1998, the First Viennese Vegetable Orchestra performs music played on vegetable-based instruments, including the "cuke-o-phon" and the "radish-marimba," as well as the occasional kitchen utensil. What happens to the vegetables post-performance? "The instruments are subsequently made into a soup so that the audience can then enjoy them a second time," notes the orchestra's official Web site.

L.A. Restaurant Photos

Photos of Los Angeles restaurants and cafes.

New Designs on Les Halles

Four new designs for Paris' Les Halles (slide show).

Reinvented Signs

Creative Time, a non-profit organization, reinvents the art of the painted sign at Coney Island (gallery).

Organics Revisited

Organics-Revisited.

Soup Imitates Art

Soup imitates art: Campbell's issues soup cans commemorating Andy Warhol. [via bb]

to market - to market

to market - to market.

Sugar

Beauty found in the corroded hulls of sugar-carrying ships.

The Levittown Kitchen

The Levittown Kitchen. [via cp]

Supermarket History

Exploring supermarket history and architecture.

Steamed Milk

The sound of steamed milk (audio stream).

Cereal Boxes

Hundreds of cereal boxes.

Print ads from 50 years of TV dinner history. [via rl]

Some very palatable wallpapers to download from Paris.