Food Archive:
Restaurant Density
6 Aug 2012They adjusted for population, which is appropriate. Nom.
compare it to bar density:
Drought (1896-2012)
In: Food History Maps US Economy
24 Jul 2012A look at drought through the years. There’s also a nice article about the design decisions and process that went into it.
Seasonality
In: Food
20 Jun 2012When different foods are in season
Here’s a version that includes regional differences:
I love pointing out to people that a cup of coffee has more caffeine than red bull – but nobody ever believes me.
Overfishing
11 Jun 2012http://flowingdata.com/2012/06/06/overfishing-visually-explained/A well narrated video-graphic. (via FlowingData)
CityMaps
In: Culture Food Interactive Maps
16 Mar 2012CityMaps is an interactive going out map service– something like a crowdsourced cross between google maps and yelp. Personally I found it to be a disturbing reminder of how surrounded we are by corporations and logos. For a fun game, see how many Starbucks logos you can fit in one screen – my record is eight, below. Currently available for NYC, San Francisco, and Austin.
Why Does a Salad Cost More than a Big Mac?
In: Food Politics Source: NYT
11 Feb 2012Originally from PCRM, but I link to the NYT commentary below. Farm subsidies are a joke. Actually, almost all subsidies are a joke, now that I think about it.
Ok, enough politics and economics this week. It’s Friday, so here’s a more appropriate graphic: The definitive guide to mixed drinks:
How Carbs Make You Fat
31 Jan 2012In my experience, this is very true – whenever I jump off the carb/insulin roller coaster I lose weight very quickly.
I have to say I love the image from the top of the article:
Single Malt Flavor Map
In: Food
5 Jan 2012I didn’t link this to the original over at Malts.com because they want you to enter some bullshit marketing form before you can enter the site – that, and they didn’t include my favorite Macallan’s 12 year on the map. The link below is to an explanatory blog post over at Strange Maps.
Flavor Networks
29 Dec 2011Interesting work on flavors and food pairings over at Nature.com.
Each node denotes an ingredient, the node color indicates food category, and node size reflects the ingredient prevalence in recipes. Two ingredients are connected if they share a significant number of flavor compounds, link thickness representing the number of shared compounds between the two ingredients.
(via FlowingData)
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