Netherlands-based designer Kuniko Maeda creates food-related art that expresses both her fascination with consumerism and a heavy hint of criticism of its disposability. Sounds serious, but most of it it just downright wild and wacky.
From renderings of "Dutch Sushi" and "Japanese French Fries" to a traditional Persian carpet recreated with liversausage, pickles, cheese, carrot and tomatoes, this is a woman who once made a dress of meat for Jean Paul Gaultier.
(via Design Spotter)
now if i could get a toaster that make those marks i would eat toast more often.
Dani - NO KIDDING. Actually, I probably wouldn't eat it. I would sit and admire, maybe paper my walls...
Speaking of bread, I just made Laurie Colwin's Oatmeal Bread - a slow rise recipe. What a revelation! She quotes Julia Child on bread, on how you should take control of it and adjust it to suit your schedule, not the yeast's. This one rose all night; I punched it down in the morning, let it rise all day while I was at work, then came home and baked - voilà! I have two loaves of fresh, hot, crusty bread.
So easy it breaks your heart for all the time you spent squeezing a day into the tyranny of a high-yeast bread recipe.
You can see the recipe here: http://labellecuisine.com/Archives/laurie_colwins_oatmeal_bread.htm
Thanks Faith for the great link! I often get up early & find the time and inclination to cook muffins and bread (quick breads). But I want to try a yeasted bread recipe -- the oatmeal one looks like it's do-able, especially with the cook-that-needs-to-go-to-work in mind!
i did like the art too. made me look at food and life differently. awesome. but man would i love a toaster like that.
I took a class on sensuous media in college which focused on art that uses touch, taste, and smell. There are a ton of artists who work with food. They've dealt with issues of the body, weight (Jeanine Antoni), decay and temptation (Anya Gallacio), food and trust, domesticity (Aganitha Dick), comfort and love (Diane Borsato). There's so much that can be thought about in our relationship to food, its place in American culture and other cultures, and on and on. There's really some great stuff being done, and I'm sure that Kuniko Maeda would find it interesting that her toast did indeed make dani want to actually consume more toast.
Sara Kate, thank you really for posting this!
{Sorry for the spelling of these artists names if I got them wrong!)
I love that toast design! Actually we experimented with stencil designs on toast before but hers are phenomenal. Thanks for sharing!