(article, Culinate staff)
You might remember The Star Wars Cookbook,_ a gag gift from 1998 that featured hilarious dioramas of vintage "Star Wars" action figures arranged in landscapes of, say, cinnamon rolls (with Princess Leia and her matching hairstyle, natch). Now National Public Radio has discovered a similar art project out of Paris, in which two photographers (Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida) arrange tiny figurines within a world of gigantic food. There are firefighters dousing a fire of hot chile peppers, polar bears waterskiing between marshmallow icebergs, and an earnest team of construction workers plumping dried raisins back into lush grapes. Bonus: a video titled "The Ballad of Minimiam in the Land of Milk."