#Food-art

I ran across a notice about this video: The USDA’s wondrous fruit watercolors.  It’s only 5 minutes and a revelation. It’s just what we need this week—something lovely at a dark time. I had never heard of the USDA’s collection of 7500 hand -illustrated fruits and vegetables, most of them

Leonard Barkan.  The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance.  Princeton University Press, 2021.   What a treasure. I still get asked all the time: “What is Food Studies?” Leonard Barkan, Professor of English and Art, and my esteemed NYU colleague until he

Sonja Stummerer & Martin Hablesreiter.   Food Design Small: Reflections on Food, Design and Language.  De Gruyter 2020. Their other books are bigger:  Food Design XL (2009) and Eat Design (2014). These are unusual, to say the least, and great fun. For one thing, the authors do not take

This invitation comes from the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The Sad-and-Useless website has been collecting examples.  Some have to do with food.  Here are a couple of examples. Now it’s your turn.  Have fun!

I’m in Mexico City doing talks for El Poder del Consumidor, the advocacy group in part responsible for Mexico’s soda tax.  I had some time to be a tourist yesterday afternoon and got to see the Diego Rivera murals at the Palacio Nacional. These are enormous, and stunning.  They deal with the