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Food and drink sketches

Explore sketches, drawings, and illustrations that simplify ideas related to Food and drink.

Illustration of Adam Smith’s quote about trade: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker…” showing how self-interest leads to mutual benefit in trade and a tipsy baker.The Butcher, the Brewer, the Baker — Adam Smith quoteKawaii examples - the Japanese culture of cute explained with lots of cute sushi with adorable facesKawaiiThe magic of open-air kitchens for Asian street food shown calling out each aspect that makes it such an ingenious set upThe street food open-air kitchenHara Hachi Bu meaning summary showing a person, perhaps in Okinawa Japan, declining food at 80% fullHara Hachi BuBellini or blini illustration: a glass of a bellini—a prosecco and peach cocktail—shown next to blini—small Russian pancakes with smoked salmon and caviarBellini — bliniCake wreck: a cake where instructions for the cake—"Happy birthday in purple, no nuts"—have been smartly written across the front. Intended as a metaphor for literal misinterpretation.Cake wreckThe tomato slicing test to see if you need to sharpen your knife. A knife running over the surface of a tomato followed by a disaster needing sharpening or some perfect precise slicesThe tomato testPeeling away the intent and subtlety behind what seems a simple metric. Next to an onion.The metrics onionWhen Drinking Tea, Just Drink Tea - Zen proverb illustration: a blue tenshi teapot, often used in Japan, sits beside two cups of steaming hot tea, next to an open window looking out onto a calm natural scene of trees, hills and a river..When drinking tea, just drink teaWhat is the difference between traditional Stock, Broth and Jus explained: a large cooking pot of water has bones thrown in to make Stock. A second pot has meat added to water to make Broth. The cooking tray used to roast a chicken is tipped up to pour out the Jus, made from pan drippings. Stock, Broth, JusDeseed a Pomegranate illustration: this 5-stage process shows how to separate the seeds from within a pomegranate using the back of a spoon and a bowl of water. Deseed a pomegranateStop chopping board slipping illustration: a tea towel is made damp at the sink in a kitchen. The damp tea towel is then laid out underneath the copping board. And hey-presto, the chopping board doesn't slip around as our chef happily chops their carrots. Stop chopping board slipEgg test: how to use the egg float test to know if an egg has gone bad by checking it's floating behavior underwaterThe Egg Float TestFruit vs vegetable drawing: showing the elements of a plant that are fruit or vegetable and a 2x2 matrix for which are commonly miscategorisedFruit vs vegetableWhat is the hungry gap explained showing a timeline with a full box of Winter vegetables leading out of April, a nearly empty box in May, and an overflowing one in the SummerThe Hungry GapCompose a cheeseboard illustration: a delicious-looking platter is presented with a wide selection of cheeses; soft, hard, round, blue-veined and riddled with holes. In amongst the cheeses we find a colourful range of items to complement flavours; olives, nuts, pickles, cured meats and dried fruit. Compose a cheeseboardThe Kitchen Working Triangle illustration: a plan view of a kitchen is shown with the distances between commonly related appliances and storage highlighted. The kitchen working triangleWhat is crossmodal perception example showing that coffee tastes better when the machine is quiet and why plane food is less tastyCrossmodal perceptionTame unruly crisp packets illustration: a 7-step process lays out exactly how to fold a large, unruly, empty crisp packet into a neat, manageable triangle. Origami with purpose. Tame unruly crisp packetsKaffikok meaning - what is a kaffikok - the distance you can go before needing a cup of coffeeKaffikokParty Bottle Sizes illustration: a series of increasingly large green glass bottles are shown in a row with their formal names and comparative size in relation to a standard wine bottle. From a Demi (half a standard bottle) to a Nebuchadnezzar (20 standard bottles). Party bottle sizesSanto Libre & Cuba Libre illustration: a dark drink on the left is a Cuba Libre (rum & coke). A clear drink on the right is a Santo Libre (rum & lemonade)Santo libre, cuba libreThe half-life of caffeine illustration: showing the effect of caffeine rising then decreasing over timeThe half-life of caffeineFreeze lemons and limesSet your table in time-honoured positions.Make a cork pourer.What's the difference between an americano and a long black pictureAn americano and a long black: the differenceBloody marysDon’t cut the nose off brieMicrolife: 30 mins of TV soap, 2 cigarettes, 7 units of alcoholMicrolife: The unit of lifeCream tea: Cornwall vs DevonScoville scale: chile heat via capsaicin contentSleepy foodsWhat’s the difference between mandarins, clementines, satsumas and tangerines?Origins of mandarins world map: including Tangerine from Tangiers, Morocco, Mandarin from China, Clementine from Oman and Satsuma from JapanOrigins of mandarinsHow to make Irish coffeeCafe consumption ratesDe-seed pomegranates in a bowl of waterCuts of beefSink a strawpedoSink a strawpedoCooking at altitudeUse serrated knives for foods with a hard outside and soft insideHedgehog a mangoOpen bananas like a monkeyWhat is the Betty Crocker effect explained with an illustration about adding an eggThe Betty Crocker EffectThe law of diminishing browniesRoll limes before squeezing and you’ll get more juiceGhost cooking illustration: the art of cooking leaving a sparkling, untouched kitchenGhost cookingIf its not good enough for bugs, it’s not good enough for youGelato, sorbet and ice-creamUseful mixtures and their proportionsUse crushed garlic and ginger in most of your cookingOur atmosphere is as thick for the Earth as the skin on an appleOur atmosphere is as thick for the Earth as the skin on an appleRules of thumb for cooking steakTrim beans in one cut through the packetOpen a coconutGive air a pathway to avoid gluggingEat food. Not too much. Mostly plants3 Miscellaneous cooking tipsClear the fog with a redeyePortemanteau food examples: tofurkey, turducken, cambozolaPortemanteau foodWrap cheese in paper towel to reduce mouldWhen combining cereals, layer milk-resistant cereals at the bottomShop healthyDrink porn fizzMarshal frozen peas and suchCook rice like a proBuy half-price stilton after ChristmasWhat is a nappuccino example and tiredness can kill: Pull over, neck coffee, get 15 min shuteye for the caffeine to work then cruise onTiredness can kill. Take a breakBe fanatical about refuelling after exerciseBe fanatical about refuelling after exerciseTwist your spaghettiThe difference between compliment and complement explained with someone complimenting a shirt and a wine complementing a cheeseCompliment and ComplementAdjust your daily caffeine intakeCut an onion into teeny piecesSmaller plates help you eat lessTurn carrots while cuttingThe Wayne's World pizza of jalapeño, anchovy and bananaMake a Wayne’s World pizzaPack food shopping effectively
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