Welcome to my pick of the internet’s food snaps. The bizarre and the beautiful, the sloppy and the sensual. These are the images that have had me salivating, or foaming at the mouth over the last few weeks – I’ll be rounding up more each week, and you’ll hopefully point me in the direction of any corkers I have missed. One promise from me: no photos of avocado toast.
This is so conflicting. On the one hand, the idea that there are people willing to pay kids 50 bucks to wait in a several-hours-long queue for some barbecued meat makes me feel that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse can’t be too far off. On the other, faster than Franklin Barbecue …
Heat Magazine’s Boyd Hilton tweeted this “severed leg” from the party to launch the new season of gory cannibalfest, Hannibal. The beautifully realised, supremely gory cakes are by sculptor and fine artist-turned horror baker, Annabel de Vetten AKA Annabel Lecter.
Unsuprisingly for such a towering narcissist, Silvio Berlusconi has joined Instagram. In among the many pics of him with beautiful blondes and cuddling small fluffy dogs is the odd snap of pasta, like these wonderfully chauvinistic red, white and green penne. You can imagine Silvio snapping this, his rheumy eyes misted with tears. His “hair” deserves its own account.
I love to think that Scotland’s food scene is now all local langoustines and foraged alexanders, but then they go and do something like this. “But Alistair, the Irn Bru adds a certain lubricious minerality to the pork, don’t you think?”
With their lurid rainbow bagels stuffed with candy-sprinkles and cake-laced cream cheese, Brooklyn’s The Bagel Store is basically just trolling every bien pensant foodie. Scott Rossillo styles himself “the world’s premier bagel artist”. Pure sugar rushing.
At Auction Against Hunger’s latest event at Street Feast’s Dalston Yard, the participating chefs – including Nuno Mendes, Jose Pizarro and Isaac McHale – surpassed themselves. This little beauty, applewood smoked eel with dill and beer pickled onion, is from Robin Gill, of Clapham’s excellent The Dairy. The evening raised over £125,000.
The much-anticipated launch of Le Chabanais, the brass and marble-lined London outpost of the Paris smash hit Le Chateubriand, was halted by “major mechanical problems”. A few lucky people got in before it all went poire-shaped, for sneak previews of the likes of this shaved cauliflower and lobster beauty.
It’s got the lot, this has: chips in mini-frying baskets, “artisan” rolls, designer lettuce. But it’s Maccy D’s, not the latest gourmet burger outfit. The minced meat megacorp is apparently also changing the way its burgers are cooked to keep up to speed with the new breed. How about tipping the lot into the seventh level of hell? There’s a nice char for you.
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