What could possibly possess me to feature maps made out of food? It’s a good question that if you’ve got enough time to be reading Map Monday will probably interest you. As the astute among you have no doubt discerned one of the hardest parts of this blog is finding maps. The maps must be safe for work, freely available to use, and be interesting enough that I could write three to five-hundred words about them. That’s a pretty tall order, even for the vastness that is the internet.
The genesis of this post actually predates the blog’s origin by a few weeks. My first few maps were posted on my Facebook author page. After some positive feedback I decided to transition from occasional posts there to a regular feature on my blog. This all happened around last Easter. One of our family Easter traditions is to color eggs. When the kids were younger they produced solid color eggs. As they got older they branched into multi-colored eggs with pictures and patterns on them. After hearing me talk about different maps my youngest son decided to color one of his eggs in the image of the world.
So as I looked for a map to feature in this post I thought of my son’s world on an egg. It reminded me of the many different maps I’ve seen over the past year. Quite a few of the maps I chose to feature centered on favorite foods, beverages, or the names we give them. While I was finding those maps, I stumbled on a different association – maps made of food. With that in mind here are a few of my favorites.
Today’s Maps
The first one is a map of the world carved into an apple. It’s courtesy of artsome blog.
The next one features the continental US as a cut of meat and comes, oddly enough, from defence Pakistan.
I don’t feature them enough, so I thought I’d include one for my Canadian friends. A map of Canada made of cheese. It’s from baleanoptra’s journal.
This Easter marked the first time that we didn’t enjoy our egg coloring tradition. The inexorable march of time as my children enter their teen years and begin preparing for life as adults tends to squeeze out some of our traditions. As part of that process we spent several days before and much of the week after Easter visiting colleges. We did visit relatives and I even managed to play water polo with some friends from college, but we didn’t color eggs.
That said, here’s the image that spawned this post about maps made of food. My son’s map of the world on an egg.
As always thanks for reading.
Armen
I enjoyed the different point of view this week…. 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it.