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October 6, 2012

Dinner with Dali

Filed under: Art,Celebrity,Cookbooks,Parties,Playing with food — raincoaster @ 10:42 pm

Surrealism and cuisine go back a long way, with greater or lesser results in terms of success. This is one of the all-time highs.

Another high point was the publication of The Surreal Gourmet: Real Food for Pretend Chefs, which introduced the world to the concept of dishwasher salmon. Keeping it surreal, yo.

June 17, 2012

Colour up!

Filed under: American Food,Art,Condiment,Mexican Food,Playing with food — raincoaster @ 12:05 am

I’m not sure what’s going on here but all of a sudden I have the irresistable urge to go to the casino and order chips and guacamole.

via Tumblr

Winner, winner, Mexican dinner!

June 27, 2011

Extermi-Cake!

Filed under: American Food,Art,Celebrity,Chefs,Dessert,English food — raincoaster @ 10:16 am

This is what I call a drop-dead dessert.

Vinny Garcia is a hardcore Doctor Who fan as well as a talented cake designer, and you just know how those people are: gotta cross them streams, unite those worlds. No doubt it started with an undergrad in the sixties, baking John Pertwee-faced cookies to the sounds of the Merseybeat, and the next thing you know, this exists.

From BBCAmerica:

“I’ve seen Dalek cakes made here and there, but I just felt like nobody really captured the essence of the Dalek and the complexity of the design,” he explained. “Somebody went through a lot of trouble to design every nook and cranny of this thing, and you never see it. I thought, ‘Everyone always thinks the conical shape when they think Dalek,’ so I decided to go that extra mile to get to the difficulty level. And to be able to make this Dalek in the way that I wanted to make it, as cheesy as it sounds, it’s a dream come true.… Having made the Dalek, I naturally want to make Davros,” Garcia revealed. “I’d also like to make a three-foot tall cyberman or even The Doctor himself. I’d love to make a Tom Baker with a giant scarf and a little K-9, oh that would be so awesome.”

You can keep your molecular gastronomy, boys and girls. THAT is true food nerdism.

May 11, 2011

Bacon-y Night!

Filed under: Art,Bacon,Food Porn,Playing with food,Pork — raincoaster @ 9:16 pm
Bacony Night

Bacony Night

We’re all about the various interpretations of Van Gogh lately, god knows why. But we are. While we’re on the topic of the fine art of Baconation, here are a few other images that you might enjoy:

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