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food

This Startup Is Transforming Used Chopsticks Into Beautiful Furniture

Humans throw out more than 80 billion pairs a year.
Diana Hubbell February 25, 2022
A view of the dinner section of the Rock Food Table.
collections

The 'Rock Food' Feast That Looks Good Enough to Eat

Welcome to the world of rockhounds, pebble puppies, and a bizarre art installation almost 40 years in the making.
Diana Hubbell December 17, 2021
The Khauwale Patankar sweet shop in Pune makes sugar jewelry every year.
food

In India, a Sweet Tradition Calls for Head-To-Toe Sugar Jewelry

Maharashtra's halwa dagine symbolizes hope for future blessings.
Shoma Abhyankar December 9, 2021
From the cavity of this florid horn emerges dozens of petit fours and chocolates in a bountiful display of plenty.
dessert

Behold Denmark's Gravity-Defying Marzipan Cake

Creating one of these cornucopias is expensive and time-consuming.
Priya Mani November 23, 2021
Toluca, Mexico

Museo del Alfeñique

This museum tells the history of Day of the Dead sugar sculptures.
Assorted people pot pie facial features.
food

The Macabre Art of Baking ‘People Pot Pies’

Crafting skin and flesh from the sweet and tasty.
Leigh Chavez-Bush October 28, 2021
A scene from <em>Gone With the Wind</em>, in rice.
food

The Epic Landscape Art of Tiny Inakadate, Japan

Each year, entire rice fields grow into masterpieces.
Selena Takigawa Hoy August 27, 2021
Lemonade berries are as sweet and sour as their name implies.
food

Gaze on Ghostly Portraits of North America’s Wild Edibles

From familiar flowers to unusual salad greens.
Anne Ewbank August 20, 2021
The Cosmos cake.
food

This Jelly Cake Captures the Wonder of the Cosmos

Centrifuges and syringe-tipped knives are behind this edible miniature galaxy.
Diana Hubbell July 9, 2021
Clever wordplay makes this festive dessert especially appropriate for the new year.
food

The Easy, Edible Art of Lunar New Year Dumplings

Celebrate family and good fortune with these simple goldfish.
Grace Kwan February 18, 2021
Tiny radish people dancing
List

10 Stunning Feats of Edible Art

These museums and festivals feature food-based masterpieces.
Sam O'Brien January 25, 2021
To make the <em>simorgh</em> (a mythical bird in Iranian mythology and literature), the baker-artist stenciled the shape out of a tortilla.
food

Welcome to the Venn Diagram of Cartoon Characters, Geometric Patterns, and Crunchy Rice

One baker treats tahdig as a blank canvas.
Kayla Stewart January 22, 2021
For Tennessee's biscuits and gravy pie, only Dolly would do as decor.
food

The Singaporean Baker Inventing a Pie for Every American State

Her creations go way beyond apple pie.
Samantha Chong January 11, 2021
Chen Guorui's artworks—no matter the shape or size—are formed from base units of rice grains formed into triangles.
art

This Artist Sculpts Animals and Flowers From Grains of Rice

Guorui Chen brought a hometown tradition back from extinction.
Zeyi Yang October 9, 2020
This Janice Poon creation is an eerily accurate dish of ortolan bunting, made out of marzipan. The method of killing and eating the tiny European songbirds is infamously cruel, and France has outlawed eating them.
film

The Food Stylist Who Creates Hollywood's Unreal Dishes and Drinks

Hearts made out of brioche and braised human legs are on the menu.
Paolo Espanola September 29, 2020
Center-pivot irrigation observed from above Finney County, Kansas.
farms

The Unexpected Elegance of Irrigation Systems From Above

Architect Ronald Rael is documenting this aerial perspective.
Matthew Taub August 26, 2020
Slicing into these cakes reveals their geometric interiors.
food

The Mesmerizing Geometry of Malaysia's Most Complex Cakes

Bold colors and designs set kek lapis Sarawak apart.
Samantha Chong August 10, 2020
In Kobayashi's drawings, his chopsticks often appear, lifting food off the page.
outsider art

Meet the Former Cook Who Draws His Every Meal

Itsuo Kobayashi's art showcases the beauty of everyday Japanese food.
Selena Takigawa Hoy July 13, 2020