


The New York Times Magazine asked artists Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari to interpret the 1971 Betty Crocker Recipe Card Library. While photographing the dishes, Cattelan said they styled the food “with humor and without mercy.”
Published in the NYT Magazine Food Issue, 11 November 2015.
[Found here, more about it here, and there’s a video.]

For your Labor Day festivities, here are some unrelated and previously posted tunes, chosen at random and ordered by year of release.
Caveat: I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.
[Image found here.]

This machine was found inside an abandoned underground cold food storage facility by urban explorers who documented the discoveries during an expedition into the derelict complex. From Grok:
The facility is the former Americold underground warehouse (a converted limestone mine) in Kansas City, Kansas. It was once described as the world’s largest underground cold-storage facility. A fire started there on December 28, 1991, and burned for months; at the time it held about 245 million pounds of food. Large sections were later abandoned and left to decay.