to explore some key works of art that raise these and other issues. I enjoy a good meal, but Tom sees food with the refined eyes of a critic. We looked at six iconic paintings and prints ...

This New Yorker has perfected the art of playing with his food. Harley Langberg’s eyes are bigger than his stomach — he’s become an expert at transforming enoki mushrooms into collie’s fur ...

This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Social media is an endless feed of food—drawings in cappuccino foam, artfully staged overstuffed hamburgers.

Just because a food item has red traffic lights doesn ... and numbers when there is so much more going on in these paintings.