Annie Colbert, Mashable Don’t limit your Instagram feed to selfies and food porn — a whole world of artistry and cleverness awaits your follow. Artists like khiesti, who creates mini masterpieces using everyday objects and a playful perspective. Sprinkles flitter like fairy dust and dried leaves give wings to googly-eyed monsters
The Garden City News Friends of the Garden City Public Library will sponsor a free 1- hour illustrated lecture “Food In Art” with Nassau County Museum of Art docent Evelyn Silver on Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 2:00pm at the Garden City Public Library located at 60 Seventh St., Garden
Leanne Rinne, Belfast Telegraph The edible art show and cake shop is entitled ‘Feed The Beast’ and is supported by The Kraken Rum. The shop is open from the 25th to 28th October at The Rag Factory in Brick Lane and is full of weird and wonderful cakes designed to
Beatrice Fantoni, The Windsor Star When life gave Sonia Klue lemons, she turned them into cupcakes.”I always take on challenges,” said Klue, who turned her cupcake-making hobby into a small business after losing her job with the government last March.She admits she was a little hesitant at first. “My husband
Andrea Nagel, Times Live A blue egg and unflavoured creme fraise are served with squid ink, chilli salt, goji berries and fresh herbs, and dished up on a once-off Mervyn Gers ceramic plate.This is breakfast at the start of the Spier Secret Food Festival on Friday, a day of talks
Sean Keane, Kilkenny People Thousands of food lovers from all over Ireland converged on Kilkenny this weekend for the biggest and tastiest Savour Kilkenny Food Festival to date.The rain did little to dampen the spirits of foodies who enjoyed a feast of menus, and the opportunity to dine in some
Oman Observer Swiss chef Denis Martin is serving a dessert with the aid of a balloon. The inflated balloon is placed in a container with liquid nitrogen to shrink it. Then the balloon is removed and slowly begins to expand at room temperature before it is punctured with a needle.
Matt Goulding, Roads & Kingdom KYOTO, Japan—The meal begins simply, almost religiously: a bowl of rice, a plate of pickles, a pot of green tea. Pour the tea over the rice and take a sip, then pinch a half moon of daikon between your chopsticks. Later comes a plate of
Claudia Alarcón, The Austin Chronicle After the death of her mother in 2008, Kate Heyhoe found herself submerged in grief and in need of an outlet. “I knew she wouldn’t want me to be sad, she would want me to find a way to celebrate her life,” Heyhoe says. Inspired
Visual Arts News Besk, Broad Way World This season, the Art Institute of Chicago invites visitors to feast their eyes on the rich tradition of food in American art with the opening of the major exhibition Art? and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine.Exploring the many meanings and interpretations of
Victor D. Infante, Telegram Cirque du Noir has become, in its way, a bit of a flashpoint for the Worcester arts scene — a bravura Halloween party with an all black or costumes-only dress code, a chance to see work by an eclectic combination of local artists in different disciplines,
Melissa Vander Plas, Hometown-Pages “Food, art and community – the trifecta of things that are most important to me,” said Courtney Bergey of Lanesboro regarding the upcoming “Fill More Bowls” event in Harmony. The third annual Empty Bowls fundraiser is expanding throughout the county this year, celebrating the work of
Julie Lasky, The New York Times For her “Itinerant Gastronomy” project, the artist Mary Ellen Carroll stages intimate dinners in non-culinary-oriented settings. On Sunday, she will host the heart surgeons Dr. Bud Frazier and Dr. Billy Cohn, the chef Hugo Ortega and several other formidable figures in a vacant office
Joanne Finkelstein, Columbia University Press Public spaces have become platforms for the invention and display of self-identity, especially in the affluent West where the restaurant, from local café to Michelin-starred establishment, deftly stages these performances. In this follow-up to her classic Dining Out: A Sociology of Modern Manners, Joanne Finkelstein
Jay Cheshes, The Wall Street Journal On the edge of Copenhagen, a calico pig hung from its hind legs under an enormous red tent. Some 600 off-duty chefs and their groupies watched from the bleachers as operatic butcher Dario Cecchini, in from Panzano, Italy, grabbed a knife. “This is the
Gillian Crowther, University of Toronto Press Eating Culture offers a highly engaging overview of how anthropologists understand food. It draws on a wide variety of food examples from different ethnic groups, times, and social contexts, while acknowledging the scholarship of anthropologists working in the field. The book follows a thematic approach
