This past Thanksgiving I, like many other people, ate way more than I normally eat. As great as everything was, I was literally miserable for two days afterwards from all the sugar. So, keeping our art theme in mind, I was wondering if anyone had made an art out of eating?
A quick google search led me to The Art of Eating: an independent magazine about all the best food and wine.
I started thinking about how cooking was a great way to incorporate many
different themes in art that we've been discussing in class. For example, it can been seen as art itself (take a look to the left), either literally for purposes of art, or less literally with dual purposes for consumption.
In addition to the artistic nature of the presentation itself, actually cooking can been seen as a type of performance art in some cases: I'm thinking those awesome Hibachi places where they make volcanos out of towers of onions?!
Thai vegetable/fruit carving is one of the most artistic forms of food art, in my opinion, and examples are readily found on any cruise ship. If you don't have access to the buffet lines at the Royal Caribbean right this minute, check out this site: Simply-Thai.com for some awesome watermelon sculptures.
2 comments:
That butter sculpture is very good and yet, kind of gross. I can't imagine messing around with butter that much. Still, it had to have taken a lot of skill to make.
They look really cute and delicious. My mom used to pill the apple in shape of rabbit. It was fun and delicious to eat it.
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