Ori Gersht’s Off Balance, 2006. Photograph: Ori Gersht/Aperture.org

I highly recommend this combination of retro covers from classic food and homemaking publications, stylized food presentations and deconstructed recipe imagery. Guaranteed to make you smile. (Check below the jump for more of my personal favorites.)

Repast lives: a history of food photography – in pictures

In this taster from her new book Feast for the Eyes, curator and writer Susan Bright brings into focus the rich history of food in pictures. From Man Ray to Cindy Sherman and Martin Parr, it is an artful exploration of how the edible vastly exceeds the simple things we put on our plates.

Gingerbread Biscuits by Carl Kleiner for Ikea’s Hembakat ar Bast, 2010. Photograph: Carl Kleiner/Aperture.org

Nobuyoshi Araki, Colourscapes, 1991; from Feast for the Eyes (Aperture, 2017). Photograph: Nobuyoshi Araki/Aperture.org