Food Photos

 Me (with my mama to the left) photographing my meal at Onyx Étterem in Budapest last July.

Great article in the New York Times about the phenomenon and motivations  of  why people photograph their food. 

Via: New York Times Dining Section

Cornball

The art object du jour is:

Whimsical americana served up on a platter.

The installation piece is part of  Christopher Chiappa's series called "High Fructose Corn Syrup" showing at the Kate Werble Gallery, in conjunction with an exhibition at Moss.  The inspiration behind the show is less about food culture and more about the nostalgic twinges of the artist's childhood memory.
"The title 'high fructose corn syrup' is a reference to the artist’s transition from adolescence into adulthood, and his realization of the disappointment of human experience. a daily coke drinker, he hit puberty just as coca cola’s formula switched from using sugar to high fructose corn syrup. chiappa uses a simple switch of the ordinary to emphasize an omnipresent disequilibrium in the photographic
portrait of the artist in his studio."

Via: Designboom

Sunday Delight: Will Cotton Bakery/Art Event

At 40 Great Jones Street today! I bought pink peppercorn, gingerbread, and salted caramel macarons at the artist, Will Cotton's baking/art event. Don't miss the stunning and eye-catching painting of an Aphrodite-like model in the buff splayed out on top of a puffy cloud of pink cotton candy!

Baked Goods

Form doesn't exactly follow function, now does it? But there's something adorably weird about that roll jutting out from that bowl. The bowl is part of an art project called "baked"--an "homage to bread and flour".  OK!

Via: Designboom.com

Vittles for the Week: Poodle Show, Top Chef Burger Boy, and Happy Coffee Cup

Caffeine Contentment

Wakey-wakey!: First-place winner of Buzzfeed's contest "Cutest Thing That's a Thing Contest"

Via: Buzzfeed

Byproduct of Bi-polar Disorder: Man overcomes mental disorder through art. 

Via: Juxtapoz

 Fine Dining Between Two Buns:  An article about former Top Chef contestant, Richard Blaise and his burger joint based in Atlanta.  Next time I'm down South, I will have to stop by his place. The fries sound amazing.

Via: QSR Magazine

Peeps Lip Balm? 

Via: Seriouseats.com

Avocado Fries:  Gotta try this. 

Via: The Village Voice

Poodle Culinary Wiz: Cooking with Dog, a Japanese cooking show on Youtube!

Enjoy!

Food Art: We the Peeps...

An Example of Peep Art: Peeps on a Plane! : A Miracle on the Hudson

I'm kinda in love with the plump, pastel confection, known as Peeps, the utterly adorable, sugar-covered marshmallow treat. As Easter approaches, Peep Art, usually in the form of dioramas, surfaces all over the country, rendering winsome surprise and entertainment value for the American masses. These artistic constructions have always held a certain fascination for me.

Perhaps, it's the reinvention of a mass-produced object into a work of originality, depicting playful scenarios beyond expected Easter associations. Or, maybe it's the strange collision of incongruent notions of innocence and corruption caused by adulterating a precious, childhood goody into something physically gruesome, as this...

A scene from Reservoir Dogs

...or as sexually provocative, as this...

Peep Bunnies makin' a living .

Undeniably, the cultural ubiquity and nostalgia around the seasonal marshmallow delight contribute elements of charm and whimsy to most Peep installations. Here are some of my favorite examples that I found surfing on the interweb:

KFPeeps

Peep Pop-Art

Peeps for President Obama

Peep Prison

Based on the popular viral video of Filipino inmates dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller

Channeling Lloyd Dobler...

Downward-facing Peeps

Feel free to submit more Peeps sightings. Can't get enough of 'em...

Via: The Washington Post

The Hartford Courant

NPR

Food-Art: Breakfast of Champions

This art piece,  created by Hank Willis Thomas  and Ryan Alexiev, depicts an iconic image of  US president, Barack Obama, in a curiously alluring mosaic portrait made of what seems to be Fruit Loops, Lucky Charms, Chex and some other unidentifiable (at least to me) brands of cereal--one of the most heavily marketed consumer packaged goods in the US.   This ostensibly cheery (amazing effect that cereal has on our visual culture) piece of art raises many questions about consumerism, politics, marketing, and race. Food for thought this Saturday morning...

High Art and Grease

Via A Hamburger Today