Monday, June 1, 2009

Food Starcharts

Food Starcharts are mappings of foodballs along the gastrologic elliptical- cartesian color comparisons of what foods are commonly paired with any two given foods on an X vs Y axis.

Here's a food starchart of everything that pairs with butter vs everything that pairs with olive oil:



These visualizations are from the Food Genome, a big hungry brain that is trying to learn everything there is to know about food.

Here is a food starchart of Thyme, paired with itself -- extending a needle from common pairings (beef broth, mushroom) toward strange ones (buttermilk, cucumber).



See the rest of the set enlarged, with descriptive captions at this Monkeyview Gallery: Food Starcharts.



2 comments:

  1. a short of explanation on how to read these would be great. also. i want to print one for my wall...need to go to kinkos. more posts comign up?

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  2. Can't look at large versions on monkeyview due to some error. But I sure wish I could.

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