The disloyalty card. In an attempt to promote East London's emerging coffee shop scene, if you go and drink coffee at 8 different cafes, then the 2009 World Barista Champion will make you a free cup of coffee.

Zeger Reyers' installation "Rotating Kitchen" is a kitchen that rotates slowly and will continue to do so through February. Part of the program "Eating the Universe" at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

A look at the Heston Blumenthal's newly-released The Fat Duck Cookbook, the de-Biggened version of his Big Fat Duck Cookbook.

Our review of the new Phaidon book, Coco: 10 World-Leading Masters Choose 100 Contemporary Chefs.

Domo, the Japanese stop-action character and meme celebrity, is appearing this fall in an elaborate 7-Eleven storewide promotion, including collectible Slurpee cups, character straws, coffee cups, and hot dog containers.

Our review of the new cookbook, 'My New Orleans' by John Besh

The installation "Battle of Losers and Lovers" by Stephen J Shanabrook in which Shanabrook common plastic toy soldiers are covered in actual dark chocolate.

Designer Lotte Dekker's ceramic work at "Pioneers of Change" exhibit on Governors Island in New York City. Part of the project includes a workshop where people can break plates and put them back together.

From the 'Go Slow Cafe' in 'Pioneers of Change' on Governors Island, NYC in which elderly people prepare and serve food slowly. In the above plate, local food is served in bigger portions than imported food.

The genius tableware collection "ouTable" by the Israeli industrial design firm / internship program d-Vision.

Brilliant print ads by Saatchi & Saatchi in China for Ariel laundry detergent that show food bravely fighting back.

The final frontier of advertising: the Chinese food take-out box.

A look at the paintings of Nouar, a Los Angeles-based artist and illustrator who takes inspiration from classic animation, Americana, and vintage advertising.

"Black Gold" is an installation by Tattfoo Tan that includes mobile gardens built out of discarded shopping carts and jarred compost priced at the value of gold.

This video of a Big Mac, fries, and soda, starts out like food porn, but the simulation starts to break down, revealing that the fast food is entirely digitally rendered.

Mucca Design's packaging design and cheeky copy for the newly-opened gourmet store Brooklyn Fare.

Stephen J Shanabrook is a New York and Moscow-based artist who uses food both as medium and metaphor, including "morgue chocolates" made from molds from the fatal wounds of anonymous people.

Matt Brown's 'Food and the Future of it', final project for his masters in Interaction Design, envisions that food in the year 2040 would be synthetic and programmatic, made using 3-dimensional printers and lab-grown meat.

"Waterboarding" is a sculpture by Stephen J Shanabrook using chocolate-waterboarded choir boy Christmas statues. It's "the peaceful song of a pair of choir boys turned into a silent scream"

Photographs from the Jell-O Mold Competition held in Brooklyn

Kevin Van Aelst is a contributing photographer to the New York Times Magazine who uses "common artifacts and scenes from everyday life, which have been rearranged, assembled, and constructed into various forms, patterns, and illustrations."

Photographs from the exhibition "The Organization Of Batter" by Martha Friedman: the focus is waffles, built out of marble, paper, and rubber.

Photographs from the self-titled exhibit by Momoyo Torimitsu, featuring dozens of cast resin sculptures imitating melting chocolate Easter bunnies.

The exhibit, Over Spilt Milk, at the City Reliquary Museum in Brooklyn, tells the story of New York’s Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative through pamphlets, broadsides, and vintage milk cartons from the 1930s.

Copper Cookie Cutters as Art: Shapes from Maine by Allan McCollum

The redesign of the graphics and interior of the UK's Little Chef chain of roadside restaurants.

The Design of Food Merchandising Signs

An interview with Swallow Magazine's Creative Director and Editor, James Casey

Roots Cafe in Brooklyn serves Stumptown Coffee and blows minds.

A review of 'Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages' by Anne Mendelson

A review of Jennifer McLagan's new cookbook, "Fat," a call to arms against a culture that has unjustly vilified this delightful substance.

The Lunchbox Auction, by Gourmet magazine, is an online auction for hunger-relief organizations, featuring custom-designed lunchboxes by artists, chefs, and celebrities.

A review of 'A Day at El Bulli' by Ferran Adria, published by Phaidon.