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Diane Dodd

Cook of the Week: We all need a little food and art in our lives

Abby Scalf, Daily Herald Vesna Boscovic believes art can transcend geographic boundaries.Wanting to give artists an opportunity to exchange, promote and earn international recognition for their work across continents, she created an organization called La Citadelle Artistic Association … READ MORE

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Dinner in the Clouds

Andy Battaglia, The Wall Street Journal The Surrealist painter René Magritte did his best to subvert and confuse, setting his sights on everything from the meaninglessness of painting pipes to the strangeness of wearing shoes. But dinner too? … READ MORE

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Artist Adds Sprinkle of Whimsy to Instagram With Fanciful Illustrations

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

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

“Food in Art” subject of lecture

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

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Video: Halloween cakes to die for

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

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Cupcake hobby turns into edible art

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

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Think, eat, love

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

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Thousands flock to Kilkenny to savour tastiest food festival ever

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

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Fun with food: gastronomic dining of the future

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.

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

The Art of Death

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

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Art Institute of Chicago Opens New Exhibit ART AND APPETITE, 11/12

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

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Jaggery set for Cirque du Noir Halloween bash

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,

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Emerging artist supporting countywide Empty Bowls event

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

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Eating in a Most Peculiar Way

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

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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

Fashioning Appetite: Restaurants and the Making of Modern Identity

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

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