Cooking and kitchens

Food that isn’t ‘locally sourced’

A cartoon about the fact that a huge amount of food consumed in the UK is imported rather than grown in Britain.

Many of Britain’s staple food, from potatoes to carrots, are grown in Spain, Africa, Israel, New Zealand etc, instead of being ‘locally sourced’.

Original version drawn: 1991

Cartoon reference number: f7b
Illustration about food obsession – Magritte cartoon

Cartoon about food obsession
Magritte pastiche cartoon

A cartoon about eating disorders or obsessive food disorders, drawn as an editorial illustration for an article about the subject in the Guardian newspaper
The cartoon is based on Rene Magritte’s painting of a person with an apple in front of his face
The beefburger in front of the woman’s face represents obsession with food

Notice that the hills in the background are in the form of food, and the clouds in the sky are in the form of loaves of bread – a reference to Magritte
The cartoon about surrealist art, surrealism, diets, dieting

Ref: a614
Endangered species cartoon

Environment cartoons
Endangered species cartoon

A fish restaurant selling endangered species of fish

Over fishing is depleting fish stocks, with species such as cod and tuna being put on endangered species lists
A cartoon about food, resources, fishing quotas

Original version drawn: 2004

Reference number: a572
Cookery cartoon

Cookery cartoon – a recipe book for beginners

A cartoon showing a person reading a recipe book to find out how to prepare baked beans

A cartoon about how to cook convenience food and about how people don’t know how to cook

Cartoon reference number: a569
Cave man cartoon – the first celebrity chef

Cave men cartoon – the invention of cooking

A joke about stone age or prehistoric man and celebrity chefs

A cartoon about celebrity culture

Cartoon reference number: a359
Garden vegetable glut – gardening and cookery cartoon

Vegetable gardening cartoon
Cookery cartoon

Cartoon of a gardener harvesting courgettes from his garden and bringing them into the kitchen

In the kitchen the gardener’s wife is looking at recipes for courgettes and is saying “It’s amazing how many recipes you can find with courgettes in them when you have to”

This is a joke about the problem of gluts of seasonal vegetables and fruit.
Home grown courgettes are a particularly good example of glut-prone vegetables.

Cartoon reference number: a259

See my book of gardening cartoons here.
Cookery cartoon. Cook losing her temper while cooking a Gordon Ramsay recipe

Cookery cartoon. Cook losing her temper while cooking a Gordon Ramsay recipe.

A cartoon about Gordon Ramsey and his bad language and temper.

The cartoon is funny because Gordon Ramsey is famous for swearing a lot, for using bad language and for having a bad temper. The humour lies in the fact that the cook seems to be taking on Gordon Ramsey’s personality traits as part of the cooking process. The cook is channelling Gordon Ramsey.

Cartoon reference number: a055
Wind power cartoon – reduce carbon emissions by attaching a wind turbine to a barbecue

Environmental cartoon showing a barbecue powered by wind power instead of using charcoal – as a way of reducing carbon emissions.

Bbq cartoon- how to reduce your barbecue’s carbon footprint.

A cartoon encouraging people to reduce their carbon emissions and carbon footprint by using a wind turbine attached to a barbie.

Cartoon reference number: a046
Diet cartoon – food fads and food intolerance

Diet cartoon. A cartoon about gluten intolerance, lactose intolerance, dietary fashions and food fad intolerance.

A cartoon about food intolerance, showing a person who is gluten intolerant (and who is rejecting some bread), a person who is lactose intolerant (and who is rejecting some milk) and a person who is food fad intolerant (and who eating a plate full of food that is normally labelled as unhealthy).

A cartoon about food fads, health, dietary fads, ibs, irritable bowel syndrome, nutrition, allergies, allergy, allergic reactions, food scares.

Cartoon reference number: fd001b
Man doing housework to impress woman cartoons

Men doing housework cartoons. Men act differently in the company of attractive women.

A cartoon showing a man modifying his behaviour in order to impress an attractive woman (possibly subconsciously).

A cartoon about gender differences, feminism, gender roles, sexual attraction strategies, deception, sexual display, gender interaction.

Cartoon reference number: a028
Cartoon. Taste, and other aesthetic values, are a matter of circumstance

Cartoon about taste, both gastronomic and aesthetic. Showing that values and tastes that people (or rats) possess are dependant on circumstances, context and so on, and are not fixed or absolute.

Cartoon showing rats looking at a discarded, decaying, rotting piece of food covered with flies and thinking that it looks delicious and attractive. In such circumstances we as humans would be subject to the gag reflex or wretch reaction.

Cartoon reference number: rat131
Vegetarianism cartoon: meat eating partners of vegetarians

Meat eating partners of vegetarians cartoon
Vegetarianism cartoon

The cartoon shows an gathering of people who’s partners are vegetarians and vegans, but who are not vegetarian or vegan themselves, and who thus crave meat (which they either aren’t allowed to, or don’t like to, eat in the presence of their partners)

A cartoon about the way that people modify their behaviour in the presence of other people, especially to accommodate the other people’s social, ethical and cultural principles or mores.
A cartoon about food, ethics, meat eating, carnivorous or omnivorous diets, annual dinners, support groups, support networks

Drawn: February 2001

Cartoon reference number: veg251
Food intolerance cartoon

Food fad cartoon
Diet cartoon
A cartoon about gluten intolerance, lactose intolerance and food fad intolerance

A cartoon about food intolerance, showing a person who is gluten intolerant (and who is rejecting some bread), a person who is lactose intolerant (and who is rejecting some milk) and a person who is food fad intolerant (and who eating a plate full of food that is normally labelled as unhealthy)

A cartoon about food fads, health, dietary fads, ibs, irritable bowel syndrome, nutrition, allergies, allergy, allergic reactions, food scares

Cartoon drawn: 2011

Cartoon reference number: fod910
Practical uses of philosophy – cartoon

Practical uses of philosophy cartoon
Philosophy in the kitchen cartoon

A man ponders on a variation of Bishop George Berkley’s theory that if you can’t see something it doesn’t exist.
The caption reads: Who said philosophy had no practical uses?
The person is thinking: Because I can no longer see it, the washing up ceases to exist!
Bishop Berkley’s concept is known as idealism – the view that the external world does not exist independently of the mind. According to Berkeley all that exists are minds and their thoughts and sensations, with nothing to suggest that the external material world exists at all

A cartoon about domestic philosophy, materialism, immaterialism, excuses, rationalism, irrationalism, rationalisation, home-spun philosophies, justifications

Cartoon drawn: 2002

Cartoon reference number: phi710
Surrealist cookery cartoon. Absurdism in the kitchen

Cookery cartoon
Absurdist kitchen cartoon

Dadaist kitchen cartoon. A woman using weighing scales for which the weights are made of lightweight polystyrene, and are therefore huge

A cartoon about lifestyle, kitchens, gadgets, dada, surrealism, absurdity, absurdism

Original version drawn: 2001

Cartoon reference number: fod012
Cookery cartoon. Too many kitchen gadgets – no room for food

Kitchen cartoon
Cookery cartoon
Too many kitchen gadgets – no room for food

A kitchen full of cookery gadgets so there’s no room on the work surfaces for any food.
A cartoon about the way that people acquire gadgets and devices that they don’t necessarily use (in this case because there’s no room for the things (food) that the gadgets are designed to be used with).

A cartoon about lifestyle, kitchens, gadgets, acquisitiveness, kitchen layout and design, food preparation.
Original version drawn: 2002

Cartoon reference number: fod-11
Cooking and dieting cartoon. Getting exercise by mixing ingredients

Diet and cookery cartoon
Does mixing ingredients count as ‘exercise’?

Cooking and dieting cartoon
A woman vigorously mixing the ingredients of a cake, deceiving herself that this counts as healthy exercise

A cartoon about health, healthy eating, lifestyle, unhealthy recipes, self deception, wishful thinking

Cartoon drawn: 2005

Cartoon reference number: fod010
Diet cartoon: how to reduce the weight of fattening ingredients in recipes

Diet cartoon
Cookery cartoon

Cartoon about dieting showing a young woman pushing up on the bottom of food weighing scales to deceive herself into thinking that she’s reducing the weight of unhealthy ingredients in a recipe

A cartoon about dieting, cooking, low fat food, reducing carbohydrates intake, health, healthy eating, lifestyle, unhealthy recipes

Original version drawn: 2002

Cartoon reference number: fod009
Barbecue cartoon. Outdoor cooking cartoon

Barbecues cartoon
Outdoor cooking cartoon

A cartoon about cooking en plein air,showing a kitchen cooker in a garden in place of a barbecue, as though it was a new fashion in al fresco cooking

A cartoon about food fashions, trends, eating, leisure, outdoor lifestyle, barby, barbie, barbies, summer cookery, cooking culture

Cartoon drawn: 2005

Cartoon reference number: fod008
Food imports cartoon. The opposite to locally sourced food

Imported food cartoon
Locally sourced food

Food unnecessarily imported when it can be grown locally.

A cartoon about air miles, food miles, locally sourced produce, seasonal vegetables, environmental impact.

Drawn: 2008

Cartoon reference number: fod007
Genetically modified plants cartoon. Pea pod modified to form bioplastic packaging.

Bio-plastics cartoon
Genetic modification cartoon

Genetically modified peas – where the cellulose of the pea pod is modified to form plastic packaging.
Plastics produced from plants are known as bio-plastics.

An illustration about gmo, gene modification

Original version drawn: 1999

Cartoon reference: env116
Cooking cartoons: using a recipe book as a table mat for hot dishes

Kitchen cartoon, food cartoon, cookery cartoon.

People often own recipe books that they never use – here’s a way to ‘recycle’ them

Using an unused recipe book as a table mat for hot dishes on the dining table

Original version: 2002

Cartoon reference number: fd006
Cookery cartoon – men in the kitchen

Food preparation cartoon
Kitchen cartoon

A man preparing a meal and throwing scraps of food into a kitchen bin. Most of the scraps end up on the kitchen floor.

Possibly an illustration of gender roles in the kitchen and towards housework and chores and in gender differences in general

Cartoon drawn: 2009

Cartoon reference number: fd005
Obesity cartoon: an obese or overweight person compulsively trying to eat more food.

Illustration: diet cartoon or obesity cartoon
Possible cartoon title: Reach for the pie.

A cartoon about obesity, over eating, compulsive eating, bad habits, compulsion

An obese or overweight person compulsively trying to eat more food

Cartoon reference number: fd004

Cooking cartoon. Kitchen cartoon

Cookery cartoon: a man looking at a sauce pan in a kitchen and wondering what it's used for

Cookery cartoon or kitchen cartoon

A man looking at a saucepan in a kitchen that’s full of gadgets, wondering what the saucepan is used for
He’s saying “What’s this gadget used for?”

A cartoon about gender differences, about deskilling, and about changes in food preparation methods

Cartoon drawn: 2002

Cartoon reference number: fd003

Cookery cartoon or kitchen cartoon: a kitchen full of utensils, of which only the tin opener is ever used

Cookery cartoon or kitchen cartoon
Cooking utensils cartoon

A kitchen full of utensils and food preparation gadgets, of which only the tin opener is ever used

The caption of this cartoon reads ” I have all these kitchen utensils – but the only one I ever use is the tin opener.”

Drawn: 2002

Cartoon reference number: fd002

Gardening cartoons: using a teapot to apply weedkiller

Gardening cartoon - using kitchen utensils in the garden

Gardening cartoon
Garden weedkiller cartoon

A gardener using a teapot to apply weed killer or pesticide to flowers

A cartoon about domestic gender related roles and attitudes – here the male role outside in the garden and the female role in the kitchen – with the man having a cavalier attitude to kitchen utensils.
Original drawn: 2005

Cartoon reference number: gar010

See my book of gardening cartoons here.

Diet Cartoons: How to Achieve a Balanced Diet

balanced diet cartoon

Food cartoon: achieving a balanced diet.

How to achieve a balanced diet as an aid to dieting

Published as a greetings card by Paperlink.
Drawn: 2002

Cartoon reference number: z003

Illustration about food obsession

food obsession - Magritte pastiche

Cartoon about food obsession
Magritte pastiche

An illustration about eating disorders or obsessive food disorders, drawn as an editorial illustration for an article about the subject in the Guardian newspaper
The cartoon is based on Rene Magritte’s painting of a person with an apple in front of his face
The beefburger in front of the woman’s face represents obsession with food

Notice that the hills in the background are in the form of food, and the clouds in the sky are in the form of loaves of bread – a reference to Magritte
An image about surrealist art, surrealism, diets, dieting

Ref: a614

Cooking and kitchens

A cartoon about the fact that a huge amount of food consumed in the UK is imported rather than grown in Britain.

Many of Britain’s staple food, from potatoes to carrots, are grown in Spain, Africa, Israel, New Zealand etc, instead of being ‘locally sourced’.

Original version drawn: 1991

Cartoon reference number: f7b

Cartoon about food obsession Magritte pastiche cartoon

Notice that the hills in the background are in the form of food, and the clouds in the sky are in the form of loaves of bread – a reference to Magritte The cartoon about surrealist art, surrealism, diets, dieting

Environment cartoons Endangered species cartoon

A fish restaurant selling endangered species of fish

Over fishing is depleting fish stocks, with species such as cod and tuna being put on endangered species lists A cartoon about food, resources, fishing quotas

Original version drawn: 2004

Reference number: a572

Cookery cartoon – a recipe book for beginners

A cartoon showing a person reading a recipe book to find out how to prepare baked beans

A cartoon about how to cook convenience food and about how people don’t know how to cook

Cartoon reference number: a569

Cave men cartoon – the invention of cooking

A joke about stone age or prehistoric man and celebrity chefs

A cartoon about celebrity culture

Cartoon reference number: a359

Vegetable gardening cartoon Cookery cartoon

Cartoon of a gardener harvesting courgettes from his garden and bringing them into the kitchen

In the kitchen the gardener’s wife is looking at recipes for courgettes and is saying “It’s amazing how many recipes you can find with courgettes in them when you have to”

Cartoon reference number: a259

See my book of gardening cartoons here.

Cookery cartoon. Cook losing her temper while cooking a Gordon Ramsay recipe.

A cartoon about Gordon Ramsey and his bad language and temper.

The cartoon is funny because Gordon Ramsey is famous for swearing a lot, for using bad language and for having a bad temper. The humour lies in the fact that the cook seems to be taking on Gordon Ramsey’s personality traits as part of the cooking process. The cook is channelling Gordon Ramsey.

Cartoon reference number: a055

Environmental cartoon showing a barbecue powered by wind power instead of using charcoal – as a way of reducing carbon emissions.

Bbq cartoon- how to reduce your barbecue’s carbon footprint.

A cartoon encouraging people to reduce their carbon emissions and carbon footprint by using a wind turbine attached to a barbie.

Cartoon reference number: a046

Diet cartoon. A cartoon about gluten intolerance, lactose intolerance, dietary fashions and food fad intolerance.

A cartoon about food intolerance, showing a person who is gluten intolerant (and who is rejecting some bread), a person who is lactose intolerant (and who is rejecting some milk) and a person who is food fad intolerant (and who eating a plate full of food that is normally labelled as unhealthy).

A cartoon about food fads, health, dietary fads, ibs, irritable bowel syndrome, nutrition, allergies, allergy, allergic reactions, food scares.

Cartoon reference number: fd001b

Men doing housework cartoons. Men act differently in the company of attractive women.

A cartoon showing a man modifying his behaviour in order to impress an attractive woman (possibly subconsciously).

A cartoon about gender differences, feminism, gender roles, sexual attraction strategies, deception, sexual display, gender interaction.

Cartoon reference number: a028

Cartoon about taste, both gastronomic and aesthetic. Showing that values and tastes that people (or rats) possess are dependant on circumstances, context and so on, and are not fixed or absolute.

Cartoon showing rats looking at a discarded, decaying, rotting piece of food covered with flies and thinking that it looks delicious and attractive. In such circumstances we as humans would be subject to the gag reflex or wretch reaction.

Cartoon reference number: rat131

Meat eating partners of vegetarians cartoon Vegetarianism cartoon

The cartoon shows an gathering of people who’s partners are vegetarians and vegans, but who are not vegetarian or vegan themselves, and who thus crave meat (which they either aren’t allowed to, or don’t like to, eat in the presence of their partners)

Drawn: February 2001

Cartoon reference number: veg251

Food fad cartoon Diet cartoon A cartoon about gluten intolerance, lactose intolerance and food fad intolerance

A cartoon about food intolerance, showing a person who is gluten intolerant (and who is rejecting some bread), a person who is lactose intolerant (and who is rejecting some milk) and a person who is food fad intolerant (and who eating a plate full of food that is normally labelled as unhealthy)

A cartoon about food fads, health, dietary fads, ibs, irritable bowel syndrome, nutrition, allergies, allergy, allergic reactions, food scares

Cartoon drawn: 2011

Cartoon reference number: fod910

Practical uses of philosophy cartoon Philosophy in the kitchen cartoon

A cartoon about domestic philosophy, materialism, immaterialism, excuses, rationalism, irrationalism, rationalisation, home-spun philosophies, justifications

Cartoon drawn: 2002

Cartoon reference number: phi710

Cookery cartoon Absurdist kitchen cartoon

Dadaist kitchen cartoon. A woman using weighing scales for which the weights are made of lightweight polystyrene, and are therefore huge

A cartoon about lifestyle, kitchens, gadgets, dada, surrealism, absurdity, absurdism

Original version drawn: 2001

Cartoon reference number: fod012

Kitchen cartoon Cookery cartoon Too many kitchen gadgets – no room for food

A kitchen full of cookery gadgets so there’s no room on the work surfaces for any food. A cartoon about the way that people acquire gadgets and devices that they don’t necessarily use (in this case because there’s no room for the things (food) that the gadgets are designed to be used with).

A cartoon about lifestyle, kitchens, gadgets, acquisitiveness, kitchen layout and design, food preparation. Original version drawn: 2002

Cartoon reference number: fod-11

Diet and cookery cartoon Does mixing ingredients count as ‘exercise’?

Cooking and dieting cartoon A woman vigorously mixing the ingredients of a cake, deceiving herself that this counts as healthy exercise

A cartoon about health, healthy eating, lifestyle, unhealthy recipes, self deception, wishful thinking

Cartoon drawn: 2005

Cartoon reference number: fod010

Diet cartoon Cookery cartoon

Cartoon about dieting showing a young woman pushing up on the bottom of food weighing scales to deceive herself into thinking that she’s reducing the weight of unhealthy ingredients in a recipe

A cartoon about dieting, cooking, low fat food, reducing carbohydrates intake, health, healthy eating, lifestyle, unhealthy recipes

Original version drawn: 2002

Cartoon reference number: fod009

Barbecues cartoon Outdoor cooking cartoon

A cartoon about cooking en plein air,showing a kitchen cooker in a garden in place of a barbecue, as though it was a new fashion in al fresco cooking

A cartoon about food fashions, trends, eating, leisure, outdoor lifestyle, barby, barbie, barbies, summer cookery, cooking culture

Cartoon drawn: 2005

Cartoon about food obsession
Magritte pastiche cartoon

Notice that the hills in the background are in the form of food, and the clouds in the sky are in the form of loaves of bread – a reference to Magritte
The cartoon about surrealist art, surrealism, diets, dieting

Environment cartoons
Endangered species cartoon

Over fishing is depleting fish stocks, with species such as cod and tuna being put on endangered species lists
A cartoon about food, resources, fishing quotas

Vegetable gardening cartoon
Cookery cartoon

Meat eating partners of vegetarians cartoon
Vegetarianism cartoon

Food fad cartoon
Diet cartoon
A cartoon about gluten intolerance, lactose intolerance and food fad intolerance

Practical uses of philosophy cartoon
Philosophy in the kitchen cartoon

Cookery cartoon
Absurdist kitchen cartoon

Kitchen cartoon
Cookery cartoon
Too many kitchen gadgets – no room for food

A kitchen full of cookery gadgets so there’s no room on the work surfaces for any food.
A cartoon about the way that people acquire gadgets and devices that they don’t necessarily use (in this case because there’s no room for the things (food) that the gadgets are designed to be used with).

A cartoon about lifestyle, kitchens, gadgets, acquisitiveness, kitchen layout and design, food preparation.
Original version drawn: 2002

Diet and cookery cartoon
Does mixing ingredients count as ‘exercise’?

Cooking and dieting cartoon
A woman vigorously mixing the ingredients of a cake, deceiving herself that this counts as healthy exercise

Diet cartoon
Cookery cartoon

Barbecues cartoon
Outdoor cooking cartoon

Imported food cartoon
Locally sourced food

Bio-plastics cartoon
Genetic modification cartoon

Genetically modified peas – where the cellulose of the pea pod is modified to form plastic packaging.
Plastics produced from plants are known as bio-plastics.

Food preparation cartoon
Kitchen cartoon

Illustration: diet cartoon or obesity cartoon
Possible cartoon title: Reach for the pie.

A man looking at a saucepan in a kitchen that’s full of gadgets, wondering what the saucepan is used for
He’s saying “What’s this gadget used for?”

Cookery cartoon or kitchen cartoon
Cooking utensils cartoon

Gardening cartoon
Garden weedkiller cartoon

A cartoon about domestic gender related roles and attitudes – here the male role outside in the garden and the female role in the kitchen – with the man having a cavalier attitude to kitchen utensils.
Original drawn: 2005