What’s one to do with all that leftover candy from Halloween trick or treating? Turn them into a delicious treat with this non-serious baking trick suggested over at Serious Eats. Dump all the extra candy you couldn’t finish into a pie and let it all melt together (recipe here). Feel free to then submit a photo of your final Frcandyenstein entry to the popular website This Is Why You’re Fat, a home devoted to gastro-explosive creations.

On display through the end of this month at the Bunker Hill Community College’s art gallery is a group show “Eat the Art.” As the theme implies the artwork on display is (deliciously) food inspired. If you don’t know what to do with all those extra jelly beans leftover from trick or treating, try building a flower out of them!

Stereotypes be damned: I love me some sushi. Before you can even finish asking me what my favorite kind of cuisine is, I’m not only already answering “sushi,” but most likely on my way to the nearest sushi restaurant. I’m a fan of all things sushi and its accessories, which is why I really like these hybrid chopsticks designed by Aïssa Logerot.

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We are a fast food nation. Everyone knows that. But did you know that there are over 13,000 MacDonald’s in the lower 48 states? Damn, that’s a lot of calories being consumed.

Stephen Von Worley, who writes the Weather Sealed blog, came up with an idea while driving through California. As he was bombarded with chain store and chain restaurant, one after another, he asked himself “just how far away can you get from our world of generic convenience? And how would you figure that out?”

Using McDonald’s as his test he created a map showing each McDonald’s. Most people don’t have to go too far for McNuggets. The furthest distance between golden arches: “Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald’s, as the crow flies, and 145 miles by car!” For a bigger map click here.

The High Line continues to be a hit here in NYC. This summer the park’s popularity has been enormous and will only continue to grow if these guys keep doing fun, innovative things with the space. Case in point was yesterday’s launch of High Line Art, which is a series of commissions and creative partnerships sponsored by the Friends of the High Line. The works will be be featured on the High Line, around the park, or inspired by the High Line.

The debut was last night and featured the artists Lisa Sigal and Paul Ramírez Jonas. Their installation, Specials, is a mobile unit constructed of vendor carts and a wall. On the wall side various artworks are hung. On the reverse side is an actual taco stand, serving free tacos to art connoisseurs and the many randoms passing by. It’s pretty genius in that it presents art (and tacos) in a very different way.

Last night the cart feautured works by Fiona Tan and Regina Silveira and a potato and corn croquette with red cabbage and avocado taco. Anyone make it over for dinner?

New Jersey commercial photographer Dominic Episcipo’s red meat photograph series “United Steaks of America” is currently on display as part of The Museum of Pennsylvania’s competitive, juried group art exhibition, “Art of the State.” This show is open through September 20.

Matilda Tristram created this whimsical and playful stop-motion animated music video for band Omo. Playing with food never seemed so fun! I especially like the jump roping meatball.

Omo - Oversized from LOAF on Vimeo.

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As a celebration of the region’s diverse cuisine offerings, the Sydney International Food Festival is taking place next month. While I love gourmet food as much as the next gourmand, the “wow” factor about this festival is the ads, which feature flags from around the world created using food from that area.

Huh? Isn’t meat production one of the major causes of global warming? Well, yes… but according to Lisa Hamilton, author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness, eating meat raised under the right conditions can actually help mitigate climate change.

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JRs? Social House? The Dug Out? Do these fine establishments sound like your local gay bar? Or your neighborhood steak house? Hmm.

Since you’re only one day into the week and already cruising blogs rather than focusing on your work, I suggest this site as a way to spend (waste) your time. It lists the names or either gay bars or steak houses. You need to pick which is which. Test your knowledge. Whether you know the answers or not one thing is for sure. There’s a plethora of meat at all these joints.

This time lapse video of every conceivable type of that summer elixir, ice cream and all its derivatives melting is deliciously contemplative and meditative. This was created by Mind Pie, a video art collective. The segment involving the ice cream sandwich melting would probably however horrify my special lady friend who loves ice cream sandwiches more than anything else in life. She would scream at all that ice cream being wasted.