One of the fascinating things about farmer's markets are the many stories, told and untold, that can be found there, if only we look hard enough. San Francisco artist Wendy MacNaughton went to the Civic Center Farmers' Market and created a beautifully illustrated documentary called Farmer's Marker Farmers in the Own Words. More

It seems fitting that Michael Pollan would snack on pu'er tea and roasted almonds while he writes, doesn't it? Slightly more surprising is Mary Roach's love of beef pho and corn nuts!

Artist Wendy MacNaughton uncovered several writers with odd snacking habits in her research for this beautiful spread in last weekend's New York Times. Her illustrations of these habits give a fun peak inside the days, and minds, of our favorite authors.

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We recently praised battered baking sheets for their utility and history in the kitchen, but photographer Christopher Jonassen takes it one step further, exploring the physical beauty to be found in the dings, scratches and scrapes of well-used frying pans. More

Perfect Twist Poster by Debbie Carlos

• $50
• Debbie Carlos' Etsy shop

An ice cream cone, in the split second before the first lick — it's an iconic image of summertime. Debbie Carlos captures it in this oversized black and white print. We showed you Carlos' Summer Bounty print last year; this one makes a similar dramatic statement in the kitchen.

36"x 48", printed in halftone on bond paper. Also available in 24x36".

Spotting these macro foodscapes with their tiny unwitting residents over on My Modern Met made laugh out loud with delight. The images have since gone viral, but just in case you haven't seen them yet, it's totally worth taking five minutes this morning to check them out. More

If you've ever looked at the ingredients list on a Twinkie and wondered what calcium caseinate and sodium acid pyrophosphate actually look like, check out photographer Dwight Eschliman's 37 or So Ingredients.

Are these the components of a familiar yellow snack cake or a chemistry experiment? More

Wayne Thiebaud is a Pop Art painter whose 1963 work Cakes features a table of frosted cakes rendered in paint so thick it looks like real frosting. We can't blame anyone for wanting to taste one — or all of them, as one couple managed to do when they recreated the painting with real cakes for their wedding.

Take a look at their impressive work after the jump! More

No one captured Julia Child, both on camera and off, better than her husband Paul Child. Now available as posters from The Harvard/MIT COOP, this series of photographs just blows us away. More

With these bowls, it was love at first sight. How this artist can take a material like concrete and turn it into something so elegant and modern is beyond us. But we want one. Badly. More

If you've ever seen the television show Parks and Recreation, you know that the character Ron Swanson loves his breakfast foods. So much so that he has breakfast posters hanging prominently in his office. If you too love breakfast, take a look at this artwork that's all about the most important meal of the day: More