From Tumblr’s Storyboard blog: The Fine Art of Portraiture… in coffee. 

Meet Mike Breach, barista extraordinaire, who “paints” everything — and everyone — into his lattes. “I’m an esspressionist,” he proudly proclaims. Just last year, Breach was idling away his customer-less hours in the back of a hotel kitchen with only a dormant espresso machine for company. He was “so, so bored.” So he taught himself how to inscribe ornate hearts in coffee foam, with a bamboo skewer as his paintbrush.

And that was just the beginning… check out baristart.tumblr.com for more portraits, animals, and lovable aliens…

via Colossal.

2 pears, 1/2 cup Gorgonzola, 1/2 cup of butter, 1 baguette and some honey: Pear & Gorgonzola Crostinis

Dance of the Honey Bee from AbelCine. Watch more bee videos in the archives. Bees are also in the news.

via @billmckibben.

Jiggling fruit on conveyor belts! Fratelli Indelicato is a company in Italy that makes citrus and tropical fruit processing equipment. Their series of demonstration videos gives us a better idea of how food travels from farms to our tables. Above, lemonade and lemon oil. Another highlight, pineapple juice extraction:

Filed under food, factories, and fun to watch, along with this video of mushroom processing in the archives.

Elephantine’s Rachel Chew makes a pineapple upside-down cake, recipe included.