Food and Drink

As a hobby, interest or simply just a means to live - food and drink are an essential part of our lives.


Everybody has to eat.


This page celebrates the fun side of eating and drinking - whether it is brewing your own beer or baking delicious home made bread at home. Learning to eat with chopsticks or many other parts of the enjoyment that can come from cooking, brewing and eating.


Each activity has a heading, a line or two of comment and an illustration. They are presented in AZ order and gradually expanded as new pictures are drawn.


I gradually expand also.

Barbecue

A BBQ can be a portable or permanent fixture in the garden.  It is a means to grill food outdoors to enjoy without filling the house with cooking smells.

The smell of a barbecue is appealing to those attending it, less so if you live next door and particularly when you are not invited.  

A fun time can be had at the barbie with friends, drink and good weather.​
Barbecue Cookout BBQ design features a barbecue chef standing behind the grill cooking up some treats. For grill masters and fans of outdoor cooking.

Barbecue Cookout BBQ Gifts >>

Beer

Beer is a food.  A drink.  And a hobby.
Humorous Beer Me design contains the letters with ever decreasing amounts of beer remaining - creating a visual indicator of the urgent need to

Beer Me Gifts >>

Bread Making

There is a world of difference between mass produced bread and home made.  

Stores sell quality bread for high prices.  They also sell flour and yeast.

​Bread making is a satisfying hands-on cooking process that gives satisfaction and sustenance.  

​Give us this day our daily bread is a famous saying and there are many more.  It has been a staple food for humans for a long time.

Break making is one small aspect of the art of baking.  There is a great variety of goods in a high-street bakery - bread, cakes, pastries, pies.
Baking design shows a baker kneading dough in preparation for baking bread. For bakers who get a rise out of dough.

Baker Kneading Dough for Baking Bread Gifts >>

Broccoli

Broccoli is a superfood. It can fly, and pummel other foods into submission. Potatoes are scared of it, respectful too.


It's OK. If you like the taste of it.

Broccoli design features a hand drawn broccoli stalk with florets. For veggie fans, friends of broccoli and general vegetable gardening types.

Broccoli Gifts >>

Cake

I asked the internet if cake was a superfood.


Apparently, it isn't.


But, if you put cake on one plate and broccoli on another - I know who would win.

Cake is a humorous cake design using the word as the cake with all sorts of delicious filling and topping displayed on a glass stand. Someone already took a bite.

Funny Cake Gifts >>

Cheese and Wine

The flavours of cheese and wine complement each other - and there is so much variety of both to choose from.

A simple social activity to enjoy with the company of others.
Cheese and Wine - bottle of wine, two glasses and cheeseboard with knife

Chef

It would be great to have a chef. "Make me some home-made burgers." Can't think of anything else but that would do.

Chef design features a happy chef celebrating the exquisite taste of perfection. Wears chefs hat and

Chef Gifts >>

Chopsticks

As an amusing and nerdy thing a while back I checked various kitchen items to see where they were made.  Of course they were mostly made in China.

Curiously, the one item that was home-produced were the chopsticks - made in Bristol, England.

Why bother trying to eat with chopsticks?

​They are fun to learn and unless you are an expert make the food last longer.  For a novice they turn the meal experience into more of an event.

Use them for a while then get stuck in with a fork.
Chopsticks And Noodles design shows diner perched on stool with a bowl of noodles in one hand and a pair of chopsticks in the other. Fun graphic for people who have mastered the art of eating with chopsticks and who like noodles!

Chopsticks and Noodles Gifts >>

Cocktail Making

Cocktails are included here because I love the word mixology.

A mixologist can blend different liquids to create appealing cocktails - using alcohol or not according to age and preference.

Coffee

Coffee is the spark required to get some people up and running in the morning.  The process, the fine aroma, the caffeine hit - all part of  the necessary ritual to wake up. 

With or without sugar and milk, with or without company - coffee is the most essential part of breakfast for many bleary eyed office workers.
I Love Coffee design shows a happy barista pouring a delicious cup of freshly made coffee. A fun graphic for fans of morning, and anytime, coffee.

I Love Coffee Gifts >>

Cooks and Broth

Everyone knows you can have too many of them.  Each adding spice or suggesting changes.  A recipe for disaster.

Here is a fun design to illustrate the well known "too many cooks spoil the broth" expression.
Too Many Cooks design shows three cooks with spoons in hand arguing over a pan. Illustrating the old adage with

Too Many Cooks Gifts >>

Feta Cheese and Olives

I thought I'd draw one of my favourite snacks.
Feta cheese and olives - is there anything finer? A tasty drawing of some feta and olives.

Feta Cheese and Olives Gifts >>

Home Brewing

Home brewing, micro brewing, craft brewing - whatever you call it - has the ideal elements of a hobby.

It involves an interest to learn and become proficient in.
There is expenditure on specialist equipment.
It can take over your life, house and shed.

The end result can be very pleasurable.

There are home brew kits you can buy from the stores, a bucket and yeast basically, or you can get semi serious about it.  Some people even go on to make a living from the pursuit.

​After all the setting up, preparation, brewing and waiting - it is time to taste the results!
A master brewer stands behind complicated home brewing equipment. Micro brewing is a fancy name for a tradition that goes back centuries and more. Real hops and barley into a craft beer - made and consumed at home.

Home Brewing Gifts >>

Jam Making

Homemade jam is a delicious way to make the most of a harvest of fruits.  A simple pursuit involving some basic cooking, cooling and storing the jams.  

​Choose a nice jar, add a hand-written label and create a personal gift for friends.

Jam making is one aspect of the making of preserves and conserving which are part of the canning season. 

​When the fruits of the season arrive it becomes time to ensure they can be used for months to come until the next harvest.
Jam making is a fine hobby - making delicious homemade jam from fruit. At the right time in the season get cooking with this fun design featuring an expert jam and preserve maker with apron, jam spoon and saucepan. For preserve making and canning fans!

Jam Making Gifts >>

Ketchup and Fries

Fast food, no messing, delicious.  Fries with ketchup.  Does anyone not like these?
Ketchup and Fries celebrates the perfect combination of fries and tomato sauce, with delicious tomato sauce dripping onto hot ready to eat fries.

Ketchup and Fries Gifts >>

I Love Ketchup shows a tomato ketchup heart squeezing out some delicious sauce. For fans of ketchup!

I Love Ketchup Gifts >>

Mushrooms

Mushrooms are great.  Magic mushrooms are greater.  Add a fun guy pun and what have you got?

Well, someone slightly irritating obviously but hey, mushrooms are still good.
Fun Guy features hand drawn mushrooms (funghi) above the Fun Guy wording. A funny mushroom pun for the fun guy with a sense of humour.

Fun Guy Funny Mushroom Pun Gifts >>

Noodles

Noodles are great.  Quick, easy, cheap.  And sometimes delicious.
Noodles and Chopsticks features a Ramen Noodle fan enjoying a bowl of noodles with maximum concentration.

Noodles and Chopsticks Gifts >>

Pineapple

I drew a pineapple.  Tbh not much I can say on the subject.
A hand drawn pineapple for that holiday feeling or for fans of the fruit.

Pineapple Gifts >>

Stir Fry Crazy

Accidental typo which is a great pun, stir fry crazy combines food with madness.  Stir fries are a quick and easy meal that feels just like real cooking.

So if you like stir fry and get a little crazy in the kitchen...
Stir Fry Crazy design features a crazy chef running at high speed with a wok of stir fry noodles and vegetables flying in all directions. A funny cooking design.

Stir Fry Crazy Gifts >>

Too Many Cooks

In theory, the more people working on something, the better the result.

​In practice...
Too Many Cooks design shows three cooks with spoons in hand arguing over a pan. Illustrating the old adage with

Too Many Cooks Gifts >>

Tractor

Until such time as all food is grown in a laboratory, most of our food comes from farming.

And until this site has a separate farming page, this tractor design will have to go here.  The tractor being an instantly accessible representation of farming.  It is the workhorse of the farm, having largely replaced actual horses.

Maybe when fossil fuel is exhausted or banned, horses will mount a comeback.  Until then the tractor reigns supreme.
Red tractor graphic for fans of farm machinery, agricultural workers and anyone who likes big boys toys.

Red Farm Tractor Gifts >>

Here is a green farm tractor.  Clearly it is more eco-friendly and better for the planet.  Why?  Because it is green, obviously.
Green Farm Tractor graphic for farmers, agricultural workers and fans of farm machinery.

Green Farm Tractor Gifts >>

Wine Tasting

Wine tasting is a hobby that many people take part in.

It looks a bit daunting from the outside, having to have a nose and be able to use all those words to describe the bouquet of the wine.  

Well, we all have noses.  You sniff the wine, sip a bit, make a face and then spit it into a bucket.  Or at a social event you would be better to drink it , eat some cheese and enjoy the company.
Sommelier wine tasting graphic shows expert taster smelling the aroma of a fine wine by tilting the glass slightly and inhaling. Other hand holds the remains of a bottle which the wine buff plans to finish tasting very soon.

Sommelier Wine Tasting Gifts >>

All The Food In The World

When you order everything on the menu and realise you will never eat it all.


The sort of feeling I have having started a Food and Drink page. I mean, how many illustrations would be sufficient? A hundred? A thousand?


One of those "eyes bigger than my belly" moments.


Maybe one day I'll find a way to organize my output more sensibly.


Created by Mark Ewbie: Last Updated: September 7, 2025.