The Atlantic gives us some prime holiday content with a discussion of what a 20th-century Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen calls “supernormal stimuli”—fake and exaggerated versions of their natural equivalents, which some animals respond to more strongly than they do to the real thing. For example:
If the French wanted to take over the world, they wouldn't need weapons of mass destruction or anything like that. They could just sit back and show us videos like this, and march all over our defenseless homeland, while we sit helplessly drooling like madmen, transfixed by these gorgeous images of food.
From the 1981 tome Rude Food is this dish, Sole Colbert. It's sole...that looks like a vulva. We'll be serving this at the next Jezebel staff pot-luck.
This, friends, is an ice-cream-cake moon, with real craters, created by British design agency Doshi Levien, in association with Häagen-Dazs. Did you hear me? HÄAGEN-DAZS ICE CREAM CAKE MOON. Fly me to the moon and let me nom among the stars!
Yum. One small step for nom, one giant leap for nomkind.
A new ad campaign for Sugar In The Raw gives new meaning to food porn: A chocolate cake is photographed like a crotch, purposely pixelated and called a "forbidden pleasure," with the words "enter here." Cupcakes with cherry "nipples" are censored, as though they are breasts. Sure, it's a cheeky play on the brand's…
That is one hot tomato. Animation at the link. [Buzzfeed]
on a "lustful" food scene in which her character eats glazed prawns in the movie I am Love. [Schott's Vocab/NY Times]
The LA Times says that scientists aren't really sure why even just looking at chocolate can improve your mood, or if cravings are more akin to drug cravings or simply improve your mood. Shall we test those theories?
Will your upcoming three-day weekend involve grilling, margaritas or making ice cream? It could, if you buy pricey gourmet gadgets from the new Williams-Sonoma catalog!
Food porn time! The new Dean & Deluca catalog features a dark chocolae cake, a fresh pear tart and tons of candy. Grab a fork!
Today is World Nutella Day, and my mouth is watering just thinking about it. Talk sweet treats and whatever else gets you going, in this open thread. Happy Friday! [LA Weekly; Image via LoveJanine's Flickr.]
How do I love thee? Let me get my wallet and count the ways. I mean, bills. Shopping at Dean & Deluca is all about the Hamiltons. Still: Let's drool over rich chocolate, melt-in-your-mouth cupcakes and mothertrucking goat cheese.
You want titillating, arousing, begging-to-be-ravished food porn? You got it.
I'm baaack. (It was less walkabout, more lazeabout.) Thanks to the staff for steering the ship while I was knee-deep in friends/floods/food. Speaking of: at left, the glorious Aussie "brekky" that made a longhaul flight through my intestines on Saturday...and an excuse to talk about favorite breakfasts.
Jesusophile, a single Dutchman, has a few thoughts on why vaginal sex should be painful, the role of the clitoris and incorporating fruit into your lovemaking. We break it down with pictures after the jump.
Another Friday, another foodstuff holiday to celebrate: cherry pie. Tart reminiscing about crusts, bad 90s glam bands, and much more, in the comments. See you guys on Sunday evening for the Oscars. [National Food Holidays]
At left: What happens when pussy meets phallus. (Don't blame us; Rich did it!) The only thing that would make this better is if Rich shot the footage with a night-vision camera. [fourfour]
This Is Why You're Fat is a site that compiles pictures of the most fattening, greasy, bacon-wrapped, deep-fried, multi-layered, monstrous foods you've ever seen. You're welcome. [This Is Why You're Fat]
There is but one family tradition that I have never forsaken, not in college when I lacked a proper kitchen or in the years that I worked 16 hour days. That tradition is cookies.
