Artist Hannah Rothstein imagines how 10 famous artists might plate a Thanksgiving dinner in this playful series that swaps paint on canvas for food on a dinner plate. 25 signed limited edition prints (16″ x 20″) are available for $75/each with 10% of proceeds being donated to the SF-Marin Food Bank. For more interesting…
Watch Niki Nakayama, chef-owner of LA kaiseki restaurant n/naka, plating a selection of dishes from her 13-course tasting menu while explaining what kaiseki means to her. Filmed by The Art of Plating.
Photograph by Stephen Ausmus/Agricultural Research Service Researchers at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have selectively bred carrots with pigments that reflect almost all colors of the rainbow. Carrots are root vegetables and most carrot cultivars are about 88% water, 7% sugar, 1% protein, 1% fibre, 1% ash, and 0.2% fat. [source] via Wikimedia…
Steve, a retired iron worker from Illinois, built this awesome backyard BBQ steam engine smoker over the course of three years. According to his son, “the fire box is from an old farm house wood stove and the wheel rims are from cut up fence posts. He built the water tank and whistles himself…
In his free time, Twitter user @Kawanabesatou creates tiny restaurants and bars for his pet hamsters. The level of detail in the shops is simply wonderful. There are miniature sushi boats, tiny kitchen appliances and a very impressive selection of drinks! Kawanabesatou posts all of the adorable photos on Twitter where you can find…
For the magazine’s fall Food issue, the New York Times treated six second graders from P.S. 295 in Brooklyn to dinner at Daniel, where the seven-course tasting menu goes for $220 a person.
In Japan, some restaurants use ultra-realistic food samples to display what different menu items look like. These samples can be made from a variety of materials such as plastic and wax. In this video, watch as an artist skillfully creates a piece of shrimp tempura as well as an unbelievably realistic head of lettuce…
We all have ‘friends’ on Facebook but how well do we truly know them? Matt Kulesza plans on finding out, starting a project he calls 1000+ coffees: “I plan to have a one-on-one coffee with every single one of my 1000+ Facebook “friends” over the space of the next three years, or as long…
Nathan Shields is an illustrator, math teacher and self-proclaimed ‘professional dad’ to two wonderful kids. As a way to entertain them he began creating pancake art. It’s creative, delicious and fun for the kids, what more could you want? Here’s the Beatles as pancakes set to an instrumental cover of “Something” by The Beatles…
Back in 2008, Malaysian artist Lee Samantha was pregnant with her second child. Lee knew that newborns commanded a lot of time and that if she could get her eldest daughter to eat independently, it would free up more of the precious resource. So began her foray into food art. Lee figured if the…
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