Food Portraits

I've recently stumbled on some food photography that's worth noting here. I love seeing the products of a creative/innovative photographer who plays with food.

First is the work of Gabriele Galimberti, who traveled to 58 different countries, seeking out grandmothers willing to share their signature dish. Grandmothers are magic. Particularly when it comes to food, and Gabriele Galimberti perfectly captures the simplicity, spirit, and magic of Grandma's cookin.

Grandmother Galimberti 

(photo from here)

Next is an apparently emerging trend of halved foods.

Beth Galton

Notably, The Modernist Cuisine is a set of extremely modern cookbooks coming from a think tank of chefs and molecular gastronomists near Seattle, WA. They went to great lengths to produce insanely detailed photographs of the cooking process. They took just about every piece of kitchen equipment you can think of, sawed it in half, and then photographed it. They even sawed an entire convection oven in half.

Edible Embellishments

It's finals week, and I'm taking a break from microbial genetics to write a post of pretty tasty things. So, without further ado, here are a few of my favorite things:

1. Airbrush

image from here

Same idea as a normal paint airbrush, except this one uses edible paints! Check out these stunningly delicious chocolates from the chocolate shop near my house:

Chocolatier Blue

2. Sugar Pearls (a.k.a. Dragees or Fancy Sprinkles)

image from here

Sugar pearls are the cornerstone of daintyness

image from here

3. Gold Leaf

I'm jumping from dainty to down right gaudy. 

image from here

...it can't be good to ingest this much gold... 

image from here

4. Disco Dust

Saved my favorite for last! Disco dust is just edible glitter that looks fabulous on everything!

image from here

Perfect for bedazzling icing...

image from here

...or for making home-made Peeps shimmer! (I seriously need to make myself some Peeps!)

Image and Recipe from Buttercream Blondie

But the best part about Disco Dust is that it doesn't dissolve. Meaning you can use it to add some pizzazz to any beverage!

 image from here

In the end, sparkles and shiny things should probably be consumed in moderation...

image from HERE.

Tiny people. Foody landscape.

There's an art showing going on in Seattle right now until Dec. 21 that I hope I have the chance to see! It's at the Winston Wachter Fine Art Gallery, and they are showing foody art work by Christopher Boffoli. It's very reminiscent of one of my favorite childhood books; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi & Ronald Barrett.

Here's the NPR article where I originally heard about it with a slideshow of even more photos!: A Photographers Mini Food Fascination

And now for the foodscapes:

A life of its own...

I love edible art, so I'm dedicating this post to my favorite food artists.

1) Meatscapes - photographs by Carl Warner

...Seriously, this is a photo of meat.

He's not bound to meat either, check out these vegetables:

2) Alexandre Dubosc's Caketropes:

3) Jan Svenkmajer's meat interludes from the movie, Lunacy: