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Sara Asnaghi made nine life-size human brains from different foods. This one is made from ground chili peppers, which is good, because having chili on your mind constantly is a respectable state of affairs.
Link -via The Mary Sue
The anonymous blogger behind Lunchbox Awesome makes truly awesome lunchboxes. S/he has arrangements inspired by Pinocchio, Phineas & Ferb, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and more.
Link -via Flavorwire
Sure anyone can eat their Thanksgiving meal, but it takes a truly creative mind to ignore the temptations of such delicious treats and instead turn their food into a work of art. Here are a few creators that know just how truly tasty a great work of art can be.
While there are tons of artists who work with food out there, Jason Mecier is the only one I could find that actually created a portrait using aspects of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Using turkey, sweet potatoes, corn, mushrooms, onions, green beans, cranberries and more, Mecier was able to construct a portrait of Sarah Hale, the woman largely considered responsible for the creation of a national Thanksgiving holiday. Personally, I couldn’t think of a more appropriate subject for a Thanksgiving meal artwork.
It might not be as artistic as some of the other creations on this list, but the Meta Turkey was the winner for Best Conceptual Turkey in the 2008 Turkey-shaped Jell-O Mold Competition. So what makes a turkey mold become a Meta Turkey? It must contain aspects of all parts of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, including turkey, cranberry sauce, gravy, stuffing and mashed potatoes.
This entrant into the 2008 Turkey-shaped Jell-O Mold Competition might just be the only artwork on this list that you would actually want to serve at your own Thanksgiving meal. That’s because aside from its strange turkey shape, the sweet potato pineapple casserole adorned with marshmallows and pecans looks simply delicious. Of course, I would recommend toasting the marshmallows before serving, but that’s just me.
We've posted Jason Mecier's food art on Neatorama a while ago, but the man's back. This time with everyone's favorite licorice candy, Red Vines (I mean, what they hell can't they do?)
Now the only reason ET would call home is to tell everyone on his planet how awesome it is to be made into edible movie mosaic! Here's Licorice Flix by Jason Mecier, going on right now at iam8bit's gallery (Making that Kim Kardashian one probably took longer than 72 days!)
Notcot's Tasteologie has more pics: Link
Okistugu Kado is an amazing food artist and sushi chef from Japan. His blog is filled with stunning creations, including sculptures of superheroes and scenes from Star Wars. Link -via Geekosystem
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First we brought you Mona Lisa made of coffee, and now we bring you the sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, in crumpets. Artist Laura Hadland used 15,000 crumpets and 15 volunteers to help her recreate a couple of iconic images of Pippa Middleton in her maid of honor attire from the royal wedding in April. The color variation was achieved by using different spreads on the crumpets; assembling the images took about 24 hours.
Link via Go Fug Yourself
Judith G. Klausner has an ongoing project called From Scratch in which she carves classic cameos out of Oreo cookies! She also uses cereal, toast, and other foods as a launching point for art projects, which you can see at her site. Link -via Boing Boing
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Unlike most of you, I did not grow up in a household that believed in the Hot Dog Fairy. So the tradition of placing a piece of hot dog in the dirty laundry on a new moon was not a part of my childhood. But do I plan to share the innocent joy of the Hot Dog Fairy story with my own daughters, and the instructions of food artist Anna the Red will certainly help. Link -via Craft
Previously: The Marvelous Bento Boxes of Anna the Red
Rosario Gamboa makes gelatinas that are arguably too pretty to eat. Her creations look like glass paperweights or snow globes, each with a flower inside. They’re made of gelatin, and they are bought as soon as they are displayed.
“They can’t believe the way we make them,” Gamboa says.
The process makes the outcome seem all the more remarkable. Trained hands can create a blossom in less than 10 minutes. (Check out the “gelatina artistica” video on YouTube.) Working in a palm-size hemisphere of freshly set gelatin, Gamboa uses hypodermic needles – some straight, some bent into a U – to inject colored mixtures of gelatin and sweetened condensed milk. It is done while the gelatin is inverted, so it’s a little like sculpting a figure from the feet up. Each stab or swath is instantly encapsulated, forming a leaf or petal or stamen. Slight corrections can be made if you’re skillful enough; otherwise, it’s art without a do-over option.
Link to story. Link to website. -via Nag on the Lake
(Image credit: Deb Lindsey/The Washington Post)
My Jello Americans is a blog dedicated to the art of the Jello shot. And I do mean art, as these shots can look like anything from an ear of corn to ice cream to fossil insects encased in amber! The flavor combinations are amazing as well, like shots that resemble bonbons flavored with absinthe and Black Sambuca. Link -via Breakfast Links
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Shirley Sirivong was put on bed rest during her pregnancy and has to follow a strict diet for gestational diabetes. Her husband Gat took special care to liven up her dull breakfasts first by creating funny faces, and then more elaborate scenes with her food. This breakfast depicts the iPhone game Angry Birds. See 19 of the meals she took pictures of before eating. Link -via Nag on the Lake
(Image credit: Shirley Sirivong)
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Why waste all those shells from your lobster dinner when you can turn them into art? Here’s Lobster Man, as spotted by Daryl Mitchell in Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada.
That is all. Now you know what’ll be in my nightmare tonight! Link – via Rue The Day
Instantly comprehensible to anyone who has spent time in a microbiology lab.
I am still not sure if my streaking technique is up to par on cookies, but hey I’m working with royal icing not agar. However, I did improve my counts of isolated colonies by loading on the nonpareils this time.
The baker/artist’s blog has a variety of other clever culinary concoctions.
Link, via Boing Boing.
Love, love, love these cute marzipan sculptures by Glenn D’Hondt, Sylvia Meert, and Tinne Mermans of Eugene and Louise Bakery (it’s a fictional bakery for an art show): Link (don’t miss the white chocolate butter cookie clouds!) – via Scene 360 Illusion
