Friday Food Porn: The Best of 2010, Part 2

Photo courtesy Joshua Huston

On Friday of last week, we had part 1 of the Friday Food Porn Best of 2010 collection of truly awesome food photography--10 snaps which covered the best of the first six months (or so) of this soon-to-be-concluded year.

And today, we're continuing on with a Wednesday edition of our Friday staple: The Best of Friday Food Porn, Part 2. Click on through the jump to get started.

Oh, and that picture above? That's a vision of the greatest thing man has ever done with a potato: the Potatoes Minneapolis at Kevin Davis's Blueacre Seafood.

Photo courtesy Peter Mumford

"The blue plaster walls are covered with scrawled Bic-pen graffiti; the high, curving wood of the booth's frame with names and dates written in Sharpie or literally gouged into the finish. And the seat backs on either side are gray with decades' worth of furtive scratching--more names and more dates, hasty pictures of eyeballs and skulls and declarations of love.

They are the cave paintings of Homo sapiens, hurried affirmations of existence, however brief, in this place at a certain time. The most recent is just two names, a man and a woman, who sat amid this swirl of history on July 22, 2010. The eldest are long gone--covered and smudged to gray illegibility, adding only a patina of age and forgotten good times to the cloth and wood and plaster. But in between is everything from sketches of trees, grinning skulls, and dire warnings (HERPES, written in a bold hand with an arrow pointing to a name left by some previous occupant) to simple tags (Carla, in a looping hand faded almost to invisibility and with no date appended) and the modern love poetry of the tequila-drunk and heartbroken (FOR A GOOD TIME, CALL...)."

From "For A Good Time, Call...", the review of Mama's Mexican Kitchen.