Food and Wine – Cyberslacker (2024)

Out of Retirement

September 23, 2011

What does it take to get this cyberslacker out of retirement? Why extraordinary wedding cakes of course.

Must have some Lego!

And some Scrabble.

More can be found here.

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Eat your greens, or at least create withthem

November 27, 2009

Some time ago I posted some wonderful food sculpture pictures and some odd sculptured melons. Here are some more thanks to the wonderfully named ‘Not Quite Nigella’

Then this via Freaky Martin

which is used in an ad for knives.

Perhaps it is inevitable that the best images are going to be in ads. I like this one which advertises vegetarianism.

I’ll add a little note of culture here. There are some extraordinary paintings by the 16th century Italian artist Guiseppe Archimboldo. Funny how his serious works are virtually forgotten, but his somewhat crazy food faces remain.

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But what does it tastelike?

June 8, 2009

I have never quite understood why fancy Chinese meals are supposed to taste better if they are accompanied by a bird carved out of a carrot, or elegant meals are somehow more elegant if the butter is shaped like a rose.

Nevertheless, I can’t help but be impressed with things that people with food in the name of art and have posted examples before – https://cyberslacker.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/do-play-with-your-food/

I can’t say that I much like these watermelon carvings by Francesco Scravaglieri but I do at least admire the endeavour.

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Polymath

June 1, 2009

Now we are getting somewhere! Having looked at music and maths, art and food, art and science I have finally found a trio – art, maths and food.

George W Hart is a sculptor and mathematician with a special interest in geometric scupltues. He is the author of the online Encyclopaedia of Polyhedra, in case you are interested in exploring the exciting field of Stellations of the Rhombic Triacontahedron and other such delights, and is a research professor in a computer science department.

So, art and maths. But what about the food?

Although it is hard to see in this picture of a mobile entitled ‘No Picnic’ , these three pieces are made of plastic knives, forks and spoons

Cute huh?

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How do we manage withoutthese?

March 2, 2009

Yes I love ridiculous devices. Last year I was captivated by the stupid products at Archie McPhee. My new delights can be found at Stupididiotic which describes itself as “a trademark brand of unusual and peculiar products”. Many of the products for sale here are totally useless. For example, for $24 you can buy a DVD rewinder.

Of course it has no function, but then neither does the $5 tin of dehydrated water.

On the other hand, there could be some use in the underwear repair kit.

or the Viaga carrying ring

How about tattooed sleeves?

or a crime scene scarf

On the subject of useful gadgets, there are the various pizza cutters you didn’t know you needed. These thanks to design blog Toxtel.

But wait there’s more. Thanks to Trendhunter magazine, we have some wonderfully weird food to go with the gadgets.

Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers in sushi

A house made of breadsticks

A chocolate foot

And many more.

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Food maths

April 16, 2008

What could be better than something which combines cooking and maths? (Don’t answer that question. I know that there are large number of answers to the question. Possibly even an infinite number). Let me rephrase that. What a delight – cooking and maths in the one project.

I don’t know about the father of fractal geometry Benoît Mandlebrot‘s culinary skills, but his as name means ‘almond bread’ I am sure he would be impressed with the idea of these biscuits.

The wonderful Evil Mad scientist Laboratory features an article this month on how to make fractal biscuits, including even a link to a recipe for the dough!

As I often ask of such things. Why not?

Thanks to Cliff Pickover’s Reality Carnival for this.

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Do Play with YourFood

April 4, 2008

These are from a Russian website called Snowfall. I can’t find any hint as to who is the creator of these wonderful photos (or any other of the photographs on the site). They are too good not to post.

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An Interesting Dilemma

March 17, 2008

This picture appears on a blog on the photo-sharing website – Foxsaver. It is a great photograph and one that invites interesting speculation about it. I fear that is exactly what ‘labellaluna’ has done. I won’t repeat the story that accompanies the picture, because frankly I don’t believe it.

Why not?

a) It sounds preposterous.

b) Searching the web has not turned up a corroborating source.

So here it is. A photograph apparently from 1958. Presumably a promotional picture for the Black Cat wine cellar.

Nice picture though.

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Corgi, yum

June 4, 2007

According to performance artist Mark McGowan, the corgi he ate in protest at the RSPCA not taking action against Prince Philip for fox hunting tasted terrible. Well what did he expect? There is clearly a good reason for not including dog in our regular diets.

It brought to mind a book I have, entitled ‘Extreme Cuisine’.

This is a wonderful book that catalogues (with many gruesome photos which I chose not to reproduce as a matter of good taste) virtually everything that is humanly possible to eat – with recipes! I haven’t tried to make “Fried Locusts with Salt” or “Mango Urine Lassi” and I don’t intend to try. This book certainlysuggests that another favourite of mine – The Man Who Ate Everything is not strictly true. Former Vogue USA food writer, Jeffrey Steingarten writes with great wit about overcoming his own distaste for various foods, as well as conducting some interesting food tastings and experiments.

But as adventurous as he is, Steingarten has clearly not eaten as many weird things as Jerry Hopkins, author of Extreme Cuisine. Hopkins describes water beetles as tasting ‘nutty’, fried snake having many small bones but tastinglike chicken, and rice-paddy frogs as tasting like “meaty sort of sawdust gone slightly sour”.Then again, he is very dismissive of Vegemite so can we trust hissense of taste?

By the way, Mark McGowan’s next project is to be “buried in a box, a David Blaine-type thing, in Dublin underneath a metre of mashed potato.”so one might question his judgement too.

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Musical food

May 15, 2007

Stumbling around the web this morning turned up this photo of a drum kit made of cheese – Gouda to be precise.

That got me wondering what other food based musical instruments I might find. I know about gourds being used to make musical instruments but what else could I find? Before long I was visiting the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra;

Perth based Flutenveg;

Fellow Australian Lindsey Pollak via the wonderful World Carrot Museum;

And finally to prove that you don’t have to be a vegetarian to enjoy making music – the charango – a guitar made out of armadillo shell;

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