Today’s MOTD runs into a theme we’ve seen here before, segregating countries by the types of cuisine that they are known for. This time the country is India and you can read more about the provided map @ www.spiritualjourneys.net.

Continuing with our fast food trend, today’s MOTD is a colorful description of the calorie intake of popular foods vs the time it takes to burn the extra energy using four different types of exercise. While there is much debate about this infographic being ‘bad’ due to the with arc length vs. value, the design is nice and you can still retrieve some relevant data from it. If you want to read about why this infographic doesn’t work, please go here to Peltier Tech Blog. Jon does a very good job describing the problem and then goes on to correct the problem by creating new charts. The original infographic was created by 5W infographics designer, Petra Axlund.

Today’s MOTD, information provided from Medical Insurance.org, is a very fun infographic showing the different menu items that McDonalds offers across the world. Some of the more notable offerings I would be interested in trying were the Maharaja Mac, a burger made with lamb and chicken, the McTurco, turkey fried pita with 2 patties and a pepper sauce and then wash it all down with a beer that is available in Germany.

Today’s MOTD by Jenn Cash provides an excellent view on the facts behind the rise of childhood obesity compared to the growing amount of food we eat and TV we watch. Cash won GOOD’s Best Overall Infographic contest in July 2010.

Today’s MOTD is a stunning example of how to take written instructions and turn them into a graphic depiction. The graphic shows the recipe for how to make pancakes, using very few words! These are the kinds of tools that can make cooking fun for children while stimulating a whole different sector of the brain.

My favorite part about the process is the ‘teaspoon’ of baking soda and the pinch of salt. This would look great printed out and hung in a diner or utilized as some sort of breakfast mat.

Today’s MOTD is an example of why to keep looking for interesting and unique infographics that have not been re-posted on every other site, albeit i did find this on reddit.com/r/homebrewing. This infographic comes from Zeke Shore an interaction, graphic, and motion designer currently living and working in NYC.

The graphic shows various varieties of hops and the flavors associated with them from the family of hops they come from. Also, the infographic shows the bitterness and IBU scale. This is a wonderful map that any brewing enthusiast would be happy to have hanging in their work/bottlling/storing area. Please visit Zeke’s webpage and contact him to talk about prices and sizes for a signed and numbered print. He will be making additions to this graphic and may want to wait until then to produce.

Today’s main MOTD is from the National Cattleman’s Beef Association and uses a blackboard technique to clearly illustrated what part of a cow different cuts of beef come from and what their recommended preparation for consumption is.

The second graphic is meant to be a supplement to the top graphic, this time using an actual carcass, to more accurately explain the butchering process.

The third graphic represents the average yearly consumption rates of beef in different countries, it is not a depiction of what parts of beef are consumed.

I pulled this image yesterday from a bigger infographic, before Digg got ahold of It (glad to see people really embracing infographics but it is making it hard to bring you fresher content, sorry if you have seen this before). I thought this was the best and most visually informative piece of the bigger post that I will not be linking to.

Today’s MOTD is from Forbes magazine circa 1942. I found a catalog of vintage Forbes infographics and will be sharing some of them with you to show the timelessness of visual information. This first vintage infographic is of Hiram Walker’s whiskey distillery and clearly shows all of the steps from corn kernel to alcohol. I am not a distiller myself, but would believe the process, as well as, the content of the message has also held up to the scrutiny of time.

Today’s MOTD comes from Mark Easton’s map of the week at www.bbc.co.uk (article here ) and shows where different styles of cheeses are produced in England.

If we pair this map, with Map O’ The Day #5 - French Breads and MOTD #38 - Italian Vino….you could construct some tasty combinations at your local specialty market!