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Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Painting with Pizzas, a Food Art Gallery

Food art is the practice of preparing food in such a way that the finished meal is both aesthetic and edible. 

 Silhouettes in Pizza Art
By shaping the dough, pizza chefs can create symbol and character silhouettes. Edible decorations add detail to the pizza art. These are ideal for events such as birthdays, Valentines day or simply to delight both the eyes and taste buds.

Above: This Hello Kitty pizza uses both shape and carefully placed ingredients to create an image of the cat character. 

Above: Even though this Mickey Mouse pizza doesn't have facial details, the silhouette is still recognizable as the popular Disnay character.

Above: This heart shaped pizza is an ideal meal for lovers on Valentine's day. 


Character-filled Pizza Art
Using pizza toppings, food artists can create portraits of famous characters. Each artist has a different method for creating the character's likeness; some uses spices to create subtle shades of color, whereas others prefer to use pizza toppings such as cheese, olives, onions and salami.

Above: Marvel comics' Iron Man appears in this pizza art work. The artist has used shavings of meat, onions and olives to complete the design.

Above: Heath Ledger's Joker character from Batman. The dough has been shaped to create an edible, square canvas for the food artist to work on. 

Above: The dragon logo from the game Mortal Combat has been created on this pizza, using cheese and tomato paste to create contrast in the food design.


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10 Amazing Cake Designs

Cakes are often served at celebrations such as birthdays, or events such as an anniversary or Christmas party. Often these cakes have been designed to reflect something that has meaning to the recipients.


Dungeons and Dragons Cake
This amazing dungeons and dragons cake design is ideal for the ultimate gamer. It even has its own polyhedral dice. The cake artist has paid careful attention to the detail of the dragon food sculpture, giving this food art work an edible aesthetic that will appeal to all ages.





Photo Realistic Painting on Cake
This cake artist has created an edible artwork by painting on the surface of the cake with food coloring and dye. Cake designs like this are ideal for photographic studios or even for the owner of the store that is shown in the reference photograph.



Steampunk Sweet Cake
Steampunk is a popular modern art style that combines fantastic clockwork gadgetry with Victorian style items. In this food art work, the baker has used a metallic and wood color scheme that is typical of steampunk art works. See more steampunk art here and here.






A Starry Night Birthday Cake
This cake design uses Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night painting as its design scheme. The artist has mimicked van Gogh's messy, expressive brushstrokes by applying the cake icing in a similar style.




Anatomy on Your Cake Plate
The cake artist has used an anatomy textbook as the theme in this cake. The dry humor of this cake design would likely appeal to medical students or hospital staff.



Aint Nothin' but a Hound Dog Cake
This confectionery food art is a sweet sculpture of a Basset Hound dog. This dessert has won both awards and the hearts of all who see it.



A Ssspecial Ssserpent Cake
Though snakes frighten most people, there are those who are fascinated by serpents of all kinds. This passion has been reflected in this cake design of a snake, complete with scales and markings.



Marvel Comics Superhero Cake
Here's a birthday cake design that will appeal to all comics fans, with its representation of each of the most popular Marvel Comics superheroes. Each layer symbolizes a different superhero, such as Batman, Superman, Spiderman, and The Hulk.



Scorpio Star Sign Birthday Cake
This birthday cake has been designed for those who have the Scorpio star sign. The gold scorpion sculpture is beautifully decorated with edible paint and piping, to create a luxurious birthday cake design.



A Stitch in Time Saves Cake
In this beautiful food art work, the cake artist has created an antique Singer sewing machine sculpture, surrounded by other items of a seamstress's trade, such as scissors, cotton reels and buttons.



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Food Art: Freaky Fruit and Veg

Just when you thought apples and pears were innocent victims of man's need to eat... Think again. Vegetables can be nasty too, at least according to the food artworks below.


Banana Flasher


Beware, beware all you strawberries and pears, there's a banana flasher out there! This freaky fruit stalks the night, searching for unwary fruity females to flash.




For human fans of this freaky fruit, you can take the opportunity to dress up in this funny and naughty Halloween costume;



Photoshop Vampire Apples

Careful! The apple you just bit into might just bite you back... Many vegetarians say that they won't eat anything with eyes, fur or feathers, but what about apples with teeth?

"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate vegetables." - Unknown





Annoying Orange

If you're not afraid of fruit, but are mildly annoyed by it, Annoying Orange is the pal for you. Combining Photoshop with animation techniques and live footage, the folks at annoyingorange.com have a series ofepsiodes featuring, yes you guesssed it; the talking fruit, Annoying Orange.


Cannibal Pumpkin

You can sleep safe and sound this Halloween. The cannibal pumpkins aren't after you, they're after their pumpkin pals... For more Halloween pumpkin carving and decorating ideas, visit bhg.com






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Photoshop Genetic Modification: Vegetable Animals

Adobe Photoshop artists around the world are creating animal vegetable hybrids with photo manipulation. The possibilities for veggie animal combinations are endless, limited only by the artist's creativity, imagination and whatever foods they have in their fridge...

Photoshop Vegetable Animals
Digital imaging software such as Adobe Photoshop and Zbrush allow artists to create all sorts of animal hybrids. Often, these are a construct of two or more animals, but every now and then, an artist will choose something else to combine with an animal. In the case of vegetable animals, digital artists will combine a fruit, plant or vegetable with an animal form.

Cactus Tortoise

A slow moving creature, the cactus tortoise is an armed cannibal that eats shoots and leaves.


Banana Fish

The banana fish is becoming popular in Asian cuisine for its fishy, fruity flavors. Although commonly used as a food source, a fish tank filled with these playful creatures makes for a decorative addition to kids' bedrooms.


Citrus Frog aka Orange Frog

Several new species of Citrus Frogs have been discovered, although the most famous of these vitamin-C enriched animal hybrids is the Orange Frog. Toad-licking organizations state that Citrus Frogs are the best thing to happen to the food industry since bread came sliced.

Elephant Tree

The latest hype in the genetic modification industry is the Elephant Tree. These creatures are rooted to the spot, making them an easy subject for tourists to photograph.


Potato Toad

In an attempt to end world hunger, scientists have combined potato and toad genes to create the potato toad. The potato toad has been digitally designed to swim across lakes and rivers and hop its way from one end of an impoverished area to another, spreading it potato toad eggs in its wake.

Onion Spider

The onion spider is a lesser-known specie of the bulb family. Chefs have taken to keeping entire colonies of this animal vegetable hybrid in their kitchens to keep away flies and provide fresh produce.

Chicken Flowers

KFC has found a new alternative to battery chicken farms, genetically modified chicken flowers. This renewable resource is both good for the environment while providing a valuable food source for humans.


Chrysanthemum Puppies aka Poodle Puffs

Retirees and stay at home mums are putting pressure on flower sellers for bouquets of Chrysanthemum Puppies, commonly known as Poodle Puffs. These furry flowers yap when people come to the door, will lick your hands for a tickle and have a tendency to widdle on carpets. Animal rights activists are appalled that these animal hybrids are becoming cut flowers for home decor.

Strawberry Frog

Executive chefs across the globe are getting creative with the latest design in food modification, the strawberry frog hybrid. These chimeras make a delightful, delicious dessert when served with ice cream or cream.

Chili Rooster

This photoshop animal hybrid design is the ideal gift for those who want a spicy wake-up call.

Gourd Pumpkin Fish

Simply known as the pumpkin fish, these hybrids make great tank mates for banana fish.

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Toast Mosaics: You Could be Eating Art for Breakfast

Modern artists use a wider variety of art materials than their predecessors to create their artworks. It seems that nowadays, even a slice of bread cannot be protected from the rampant creativity of food artists.

The Marvellous History of Toast

Toast has got to be the greatest thing since bread came sliced. Sliced bread was first marketed and sold in 1928 by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Chillicouthe, Missouri. This revelation in bread production was labeled as “The greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.” In 1943, US officials imposed a ban on sliced bread as a wartime conservation measure, as it was believed that sliced bread used a heavier wrapping than their unsliced cousins. Within three months the ban was lifted and bakeries were once again allowed to sell ready-sliced bread.
Above: A Chillicothe Baking Company poster advertising the advent of sliced bread in 1928.

 Before the birth of the electric toaster, slices of bread were toasted by placing them into a metal frame and then holding the bread over an open fire or flame. There are records of electric toasters as far back as the 1870s, but it was not until the early 1900s that electric toasters became commercially available.
Above: Early toasters would toast one side of a slice at a time. The toast had to be turned manually.

Toast Art

Toast art can be created on a single slice of toast to create a stand-alone artwork, or several pieces of bread toasted to different shades can be arranged to create a mosaic image. 

Ingrid Falk and Gustavi Aguerre

Ingrid Falk and Gustavi Aguerre created their toast mosaic, The Toaster, using more than 3,000 pieces of toast. Toast that had been grilled for a longer period of time turned black, creating a contrast with slices of bread that had only been lightly toasted. Looks like art, smells like breakfast.

Arne Felix Magold

Arne Felix Magold’s Toast Pixels uses 612 slices of toasted bread to create an image of a woman’s eye. Magolduse digital imaging software to assist him in creating his original design, before putting his toaster to work.

David Reimondo

David Reimondo uses an aluminium mask to protect the areas of the bread that he wishes to keep as a light color. He then toasts the bread that is not protected by the mask, leaving behind his design. Once toasted, the slices of bread are then encapsulated in a transparent resin block, which preserves the artwork and adds to its aesthetic quality.

Maurice Bennet

Maurice Bennet’s designs are inspired by Native Australian Aboriginal artworks. In many of his mosaics, Bennettreats the pieces of bread like puzzles, cutting shapes from one slice to fill a similarly-shaped hole in another slice. This technique creates both textural and color contrasts. Bennet sometimes combines several different media to create his edible art, and has even created fashion items such as dresses and jewelry out of toast.

Videos of Toast Art

Toast art is being used as an advertising and marketing medium, as seen in the two videos below. The first video is more fan art than advertising, as it is a portrait of YouTube’s ‘Grandmother of YouTube”, TheHill88. The artist uses Vegemite, an Australian bread spread, to ‘paint’ the toast, while also scraping away parts of the browned toast to create shades of color on the bread.



The next video is a music video for the band, OK Go. The band is known for having unique music videos that go viral online soon after their creation. The artists used 215 loaves of bread to make this stop-frame animation. The bread was ‘rescued’ from certain disposal, as it was past its sell-by-date.



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Recycled Kitchen Utensils become Art

Sayaka Kajita Gans is a Japanese artist who recycles discarded kitchen utensils, toys and metal items by transforming them into emotive sculptures.


Sayaka Kajita Gans, Recycling Artist

 Gans says that her work process reminds her of growing up in several different countries. Moving from one home to another throughout her childhood gave Gans a sense of disconnectedness, which is conveyed through her art. Each item that Gans chooses to use in her artworks are carefully selected, and must meet the requirement of being previously owned, used and discarded. Gans gives these pieces a new life by combining them to create an animal form that seems almost alive.

Gans uses flowing lines to create a sense of life and movement in her sculptures. Each creature seems to be frozen in time, like a single frame out of an animation. Each part of the animal is made up of a series of curves and arcs that further add to the sense of movement that the sculpture conveys. Art made with reclaimed objects is gaining popularity around the world, but it is a rarity to see such skill applied to recycled art.

When sketching, an artist will often create motion lines behind the subject to convey speed and movement. Gans has incorporated this technique into her sculptures, as seen above in the sculpture of a running cheetah, Fogo. These motion lines add to the sensation of movement in Gans’s work.

In Emergence, Gans has created two horses that appear to be emerging from a wall. The incompleteness of the horse’s bodies portray Gans’s sense of disconnectedness. It creates a transitory feeling of life existing only in a moment, fading into the past within seconds, never to be reclaimed. In converse, it can also form the idea that life emerges from the past, yet is always tied to its beginnings.
 In Emergence, one can easily see the shapes of some of the found objects that Gans has used. The ears on the black horse are spades, and the ears on the white horse are large spoons.

This piece uses several individual sculptures to create the finished product, Plunge. The penguins depicted appear to be plunging into water, even though they are hung in air. The piece gives the viewer the fun sensation that they are standing beneath the surface of the water watching the penguins dive. Gans has given the impression of water movement behind the penguins by twisting wire into swirls. 

 Below are more examples of Gans’s sculptures. You can visit her website at SayakaGans.com
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Japanese Food Art: Not Just a Tasty Meal

Japanese chefs pride themselves not only on the flavor and texture of their food, but also on the attractive presentation of a meal. In Japan, the presentation of a meal is as important as the taste and texture of the food. Japanese chefs pride themselves on the creative, artistic nature of dish, as well as the flavors within the meal.

Rice Art

By coloring the rice and then shaping it, these creative chefs have created comical, edible characters. Most of these dishes have been designed for the delight of children, but are also enjoyed by adults. The chef uses other foodstuffs in the dish, such as seaweed, to give the character more personality.


Sushi Food Art

Sushi is one of Japan’s most famous and internationally appreciated foods. Sushi is well-known foe being not only delicious, but an attractive, healthy meal. These chefs have taken the artistic food a step further, using colored sushi rice, fish roe (fish eggs), seaweed sheets and different vegetables to create patterns and pictures with the sushi.

Watermelon Art

These chefs have used watermelons as a canvas for their designs. Cutting into the fruit at different depths allows them to utilize a specific color layer within the fruit. The green portions of the picture are the skin, the white is found below the skin and the pinks are found at the centre of the melon. By carefully cutting around the green portions, the artistic chef can create an artwork from the simple fruit.

Japanese food is more than just sustenance. Each meal can be appreciated for its flavor, texture and aesthetic value. This artistic nation can turn any drab, plain food stuff into an exciting edible art work to excite artistic palettes.


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Bacon is Good for You

Bacon, when eaten in moderation, has a number of health benefits.

Bacon, a smoked pork product, is often labeled by the health conscious as being one of the most unhealthy foods available. The truth is that bacon contains many healthy fats, vitamins and minerals. When eaten in moderation as part of a balanced diet, bacon is good for you.


 Fats

Bacon contains monounsaturated fat, oliec acid, which is also found in olive oil. Nearly half of the fat found in bacon is made up of monounsaturated fat. Studies have shown that starting the day with a high fat, high protein breakfast such as bacon and eggs improves the metabolism. Eating such an energy-rich breakfast also means that the digestive system takes longer to digest the morning meal, so that snacking between lunch and breakfast isn’t necessary.


Vitamins and Minerals

Bacon contains Niacin, which is good for the skin and essential for good circulation and nervous system functioning. B vitamins, B-12 and Thiamin, improve metabolism, digestion and circulation. Phosphorous is present in bacon, assisting in heart and kidney functioning and the healthy formation of teeth and bones. Iron that is found in bacon improves the immune system and encourages the production of hemoglobin in the blood. Selenium is good for the immune system and is an antioxidant, preventing the oxidation of fats in the body. Bacon contains omega-3 fatty acids which improve circulation, lower cholesterol and decrease the risk of heart disease.



Healthy Bacon Choices

Bacon has a high sodium content, and should be served with foods that have a low salt content, to balance the amount of sodium being absorbed into the body. A breakfast of boiled or poached eggs, bacon and fresh fruit is healthier than a breakfast of fried eggs, bacon and fried bread.

Bacon contains nitrites and nitrates. These alone aren’t bad for your health, when eaten in moderation, but the by-products of nitrites, nitrosamines, are bad for you. Luckily, nitrosamines are only found in overcooked bacon, so avoid cooking your bacon until it is crisp.

Moderate the amount of bacon that you eat. A few slices with breakfast every other day is a healthier way to enjoy bacon than scoffing down a pack of bacon each day. Although bacon is good for you in many ways, it still has a high sodium, saturated fat and cholesterol content. These are only good for you if you eat bacon in moderation.

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Edible Superheroes Hit the Runways in Chocolate Fashions

Fashion designers and confectioners have joined forces to create a fashion show of edible clothing, with designs based on famous and popular superhero characters.

The 11th Annual Chocolate Show in New York, USA, offered a unique combination of food, fashion and superheroes. Models strutted down the runway wearing edible chocolate clothing styled to look like popular movie characters, comic book heroes and mythological creatures.


Chocolate melts when it comes into contact with the warmth of the human body, so these trendy food fashions didn’t last long as models left a wake of dripping chocolate and melting confectionery items. Some of the sturdier materials used to compliment the chocolate clothing was sugar pastry and conventional materials and fabrics.

David Barton of David Barton Gyms was styled to be a “gym hero”, complete with chocolate barbells and chocolate championship belt. When Barton’s chocolate body paint started to melt, a female audience member became so excited that she rushed on stage to lick the chocolate from his muscular body.


A chocolate Lara Croft-style costume made a deliciously brief appearance. Almost the entire outfit is made from edible chocolate.

Above: A Lara Croft outfit made from chocolate

Popular TV series character, Xena, also showed up. Slabs of carefully crafted chocolate were made to form a representation of Xena’s paneled leather skirt. Gold confectioner’s paint was used to create a convincing chocolate replica of Xena’s body armor and crown.

Above: Xena's outfit is made of chocolate that has been painted and molded to look like metal or leather.

“Sedusa” a character based on the mythological character Medusa, also boasted a generous application of gold confectioners paint. For the show, designers had to create outfits that were more than 40% edible chocolate. Sedusa’s head piece with it’s writhing snakes, as well as her clothing and jewelry, are all chocolate.

Above: "Sedusa", based on the Greek mythological character Medusa


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