Awesome Food

Jeff Potter’s tattered cookbook features recipes and lessons from the world of food science, and interviews with geeks, chefs and scientists. We also think it’s the first O’Reilly Cookbook with food.

The trend of artery-clogging “extreme junk food” continues at your neighborhood Denny’s, with this grilled cheese sammie loaded with fried mozzarella sticks. Why didn’t they deep-fry the whole thing?

Kellogg’s popped-up a new store in Times Square, loaded with every flavor of toaster pastry you can imagine, custom-built tarts and even Pop-Tart sushi. Probably not part of a nutritious breakfast.

Looking for a healthy treat? Then stay far away from Sodolak’s Original Country Inn in Snook, Texas – home of deep-fried bacon. Guaranteed to harden arteries just by looking at this picture.

Charles Phoenix’s delicious invention is the pie equivalent of the Turducken. It’s a mega cake stuffed with three different pies – cherry, pumpkin, and apple. Find out how to make one here.

The fact that an artist named “Toastman” has been making giant artworks out of burnt toast for the last 10 years is awesome enough, but his latest, da Vinci’s classic, is a true masterpiece (of toast).

David Arrick’s Butch Bakery makes the manliest cupcakes in the world. Butch Cupcakes are made of all the things that men love, from bacon to beer. This needs to be available worldwide ASAP.

Sick of wimpy, underdone toast? Shay Carmon’s toaster concept combines a defibrillator with a toaster, to give your bread that deep, dark crunch that only an intense electrical shock can provide.

Dragging butt? Grab a mouthful of Ed Hardy’s “Super Caffeinated” Coffee Rocks. Choose from chocolate or coffee flavors, both loaded with 600mg of stimulant in each box. Buzzzzzzz…

Piece of Cake Liqueurs has combined two of our fave things, cake and booze, into Chocolate Cake Liqueur, which can be paired with other spirits or taken The Awesomer way – one shot at time.

The nozzle on every bottle of Dave’s Gourmet Adjustable Heat Hot Sauce has a lid that controls the mixture of two sauces stored in the bottle. This is just a good party game waiting to happen.

Here’s a delicious compilation of Iron Chef America’s secret ingredients, smashed together to form one overly dramatic smörgÃ¥sbord. Wild Boar! Parmigiano-Reggiano! Mango! Puff Pastry!

Craving some sugary sweets at your desk, and already filled up on mini donuts? Get your hands on this essential bit of cookery, and you’ll be popping tiny cupcakes in your mouth in 5 minutes flat.

This food combination trend is getting out of hand. Someone made a pizza with french fries, chicken nuggets and two whole hamburgers as toppings. All that’s missing is fried Coke.

The Way We See the World has created edible drinking glasses from the seaweed extract agar-agar in unusually tasty flavor combinations, like lemon-basil, ginger-mint and rosemary-beet.

We can’t think of a more delightful meal than a pre-cooked cheeseburger, vacuum-sealed inside a pop-top can. We’re pretty sure it won’t look like the burger in the photo when you open the can.

If you ever wondered what it might be like if God of War’s Kratos decided to make a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich, this video is for you. It makes absolutely no sense, but still made us chuckle.

File this one under the “one-trick-pony” category. There’s something just so wrong it’s right about this ridiculous Japanese invention that’s perfect for cooling a watermelon, or maybe a head.

Geek Dad columnist Matt Blum set out to make a burger with a patty made only of bacon. 19 bacon slices, an egg, and some cutting, grinding and broiling later, the Bacon Burger was born.

Liz Hickok creates scale models of urban sites (like San Francisco here) entirely in Jell-O. Luminously glowing, the fragile medium bears odd similarities to the city’s uncertain geological landscape.

The latest in the everything tastes better with bacon craze, Boca Java’s Maple Bacon Morning coffee smells just like a complete cooked breakfast, but with none of the messy pans.

Besting the paltry previous record of 185.8 pounds, Canadian chef Ted Reader created this insane 590 lb hamburger from 307 lbs of beef, 100 lbs of bread, 20 lbs of lettuce, and 150 lbs of condiments.

Another YouTuber offers double the unnecessary excitement and double the fat and calories in this, the latest Internet meme collision. The video is doublicious… all the way.