Food Sculpture - A Table Display

 When food turns into art, it becomes the centre of attraction.  Transforming bland and bored looking vegetables and fruits into amazing forms.  That's when the WOW factor starts.
If you're wondering if I..............  No, not me :-)  I was too caught up with spring cleaning. 
This display was done by a thai cook.   

Food Sculpture - Radi Carving

More curves with radishes - this time almost paper thin.

All ten fingers still intact !!   :-)

Food Sculpture (April)

Fooling around with radishes........

Spring 2012

It's April, a month of plus minus - plus minus temperatures, rain, sun or snow.  After 2 weeks of frosty nights and icy rain, the sun finally showed it's presence.  Went out to my garden this afternoon and look at these............

Laces

LACE  
This is what I do when sitting down to watch TV.  Multi-taskting.
With thread and needle, nothing else.  

A complete square - Stitch about a dozen pieces.

Join them all together and you have a piece as table cloth or in my case, a curtain.
Anyone wants to learn ?

Food Sculpture (4)

Final curves - Kohlrab with carrot centre
Day 5

Food Sculpture (3)

Day 4............
It is all about curves.  Cutting curves without slipping.

With daikon and carrots.

Food Sculpture (2)

Day 3 - Carving with a melon is easy but turning your object into  flowing curves needs practice practice practice. 

With kohlrab, it's easier because the texture of this vegetable or root is firm, not too hard or crispy.

 

With doves, one needs to study a piece daikon like looking for your best dress for a hot date.  Is it too long, does it have curve, is the neckline low enough ...........

Food Sculpture

I have done some carving with fruits and vegetables in the past. The results were good enough to declare them 'PRESENTABLE'.   How wrong I was !

This is my second day (5 days in total) in Luzern with a 2-time world champion in food carving. Here are some of what I've achieved today with 'food surgery'.

Radish

Corgettes

Carrot tulips

Carrot and radish tulips

Playing with Food - Food Carving

Over the weekend (5-6 September) there was the European Food Carving competition in Leipzig. 
Sigh! Wish I was there to watch the Meisters at work. Wonder what they would say on the following pieces of thai carving.   

Pretty maids all in a row

Playing with food - Kohlrabi

I saw this miserable looking kohlrabi, neglected and sad.  So I decided to give it a beauty makeover.   Similar to cosmetic surgery but for vegetables -  You know what I mean.   Afterall, I have not done any carving for months.