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Feasting on Art
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Feasting on Art is an innovative translation from painting to plate with recipes inspired by famous works of art.
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Edward Weston – Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Lemon & Parmesan

I rarely return home from the grocery store without some sort of brassica in my basket. This is the second week in a row we have enjoyed brussels sprouts roasted simply with a bit of parmesan finishe...

01 may 12 1 person likes this

Ed Ruscha – Slow-Roasted Beets

This recipe was devised as an accompaniment to the previous dish, spatchcock stuffed chicken. By cooking the beets over a long period of time with a low amount of heat, the natural sugars in the vege...

20 apr 12

Gustave Caillebotte – Spatchcock Stuffed Chicken

The following recipe has been affectionately known by the names ‘Chichcock’, ‘Spatcken’ and ‘The Great Chichicken Debacle’. Conceived and executed with my brillian...

14 apr 12

Paul Cézanne – Peppermint Mojitos with Iced Peaches

Three years ago today I posted an entry about Paul Cézanne and a recipe for cherry & nectarine clafouti. It was my very first entry on this site and it seems only fitting that it is included in F...

03 apr 12

Pieter Bruegel & William Carlos Williams – Grilled Corncobs with Parmesan, Lime & Paprika

Eat This Poem is a new blog that combines food and poetry in much the same way Feasting on Art considers food and art. The website is written by Nicole Gulotta who has an MFA in poetry enabling her t...

25 mar 12 1 person likes this

Zhang Daqian – Kimchi Fried Rice with Egg and Seaweed

Kimchi (김치) is a Korean side dish made from a variety of fermented vegetables which dates back thousands of years. Health magazine named it one of the world’s healthiest foods due to its high f...

27 feb 12

Now Accepting Proposals for ‘Art + Food: Beyond the Still Life’

I am pleased to announce that I will be curating an art + food exhibition in October at Brenda May Gallery. We are now accepting proposals from professional practicing artists in Australia and New Ze...

18 feb 12

Erwin Wurm – Mustard Seed & Garlic Pickles

As a creature of habit, I have had cucumber sandwiches on the menu for the last week and have been exceedingly satisfied. A couple of days ago I decided to improve upon the quick pickle in the origin...

14 feb 12 1 person likes this

Luis Meléndez – Cucumber Finger Sandwiches

Sometimes the lack of a complicated recipe puts a block on all of my writing efforts. I wonder if it is necessary to share a sandwich recipe so simple that essentially it reads, bread, butter and cuc...

06 feb 12

Charles Ethan Porter – Spicy Sautéed Corn

I first tried out this corn recipe on my Thanksgiving menu this year. The spicy corn, brightened with a squirt of lime, proved to be the perfect foil to the buttery and rich dishes I tend to make. I ...

13 jan 12

Andy Warhol – Poinsettia Cocktail

Andy Warhol, Poinsettias, circa 1983 synthetic polymer and silkscreen inks on canvas, 35.5 x 28cm, Private collection In the early 1980′s, Andy Warhol created a number of Poinsettia paintings...

25 dec 11

Albert Anker – Pistachio Cranberry Icebox Cookies

As far as cookie recipes go, this little beauty has become my new holiday staple. I first tried this recipe by Gourmet a couple of years ago but made too many substitutions. The cookies were extremel...

22 dec 11

John Frederick Peto – Old-fasioned Molasses Cookies

Growing up in the Midwest, cookies played a major part of my December. Throughout the holiday season, we gathered at my grandparent’s home for various parties and meals, always entering their h...

09 dec 11

Exhibition – Acquired Taste: Food and the Art of Consumption

Currently on view at the Begovich Gallery at California State University, Fullerton is the exhibition ‘Acquired Taste: Food and the Art of Consumption’ curated by Alyssa Cordova & Hea...

06 dec 11

Joseph Decker – Peppermint Ice Cream

The peppermint candy, commonly associated with Christmas, makes for a mint-flecked ice cream that is both sweet and soothing. Around the holidays, after countless lavish meals and heavy desserts, a p...

14 nov 11

Julie Green – Four Fried Chicken Legs

The artist Julie Green has been working for more than a decade on her series titled The Last Supper comprised of painted china illustrating the final meal requests of death row inmates in the United ...

04 nov 11

Art + Food Degustation Menu Announced

The menu has just been announced for the walking canapé degustation inspired by the art exhibitions at the 2 Danks Street complex. Tickets are still available, book here: http://www.danksstreetdepotw.. .

12 oct 11

2 Danks Street: A movable feast celebrating 10 years of art and food

As part of the Crave Sydney Food Festival, the Danks Street Depot will be hosting ‘A movable feast celebrating 10 years of art and food’ on October 20th from 7-11pm. 2011 marks a decade s...

03 sep 11

Book Review – Lucy + Jorge Orta ‘Food Water Life’

The review copy of Lucy+ Jorge Orta‘s new book Food Water Life was generously provided by Princeton Architectural Press. I have had this tome on my bedside table stack since May. It has been a ...

02 sep 11

Food & Art – Portfolio of Recent Writing

Ken and Julia Yonetani / Janet Tavener, Artlink, vol 31 no.2, 2011, p.156 Contributor: Gastro-Vision: The Best in Food-Art 2010, Art21, 17 December 2010 Fast Food through the Lens of Still Life Photo...

25 aug 11

De Scott Evans – Caramelized Onion Flatbread

Set against the slate gray skies of winter, the kitchen calls. With my hip pressed against the counter and the trusty wooden spoon I found in the back of a drawer in my first London home, I stand and...

03 aug 11

George Lambert – Pan-fried Buttered Cauliflower with a Poached Egg

In the most basic sense, Egg and cauliflower still life by George Lambert is a study in texture. The bulging florets of cauliflower are offset by the smooth shell of the egg. In a memorable dish, the...

19 jul 11

Colour Purple – Benjamin Roberts – Baked Custard with Plums

Adorning the cloaks and garments of royalty, the colour purple was often called imperial purple due to the close association. The word purple is a derivative of the original Greek porphura, the name ...

01 jul 11

Exhibition Interview – ‘What’s Cooking Uncle Sam’ at The National Archives

‘What’s Cooking Uncle Sam‘ is the newest exhibition on view at the National Archives in Washington DC. It is a show that traces the government’s role in both food production a...

13 jun 11

Ken + Julia Yonetani – Preserved Lemons

The name ‘still life’, when referring to the genre, was derived from the French nature morte, which literally translates to dead nature. The irony is not lost that a still life, depicting the nourish...

02 jun 11

Jon Feinstein – Pork & Chipotle Sliders

Jon Feinstein’s 2008 series titled Fast Food features an assortment of sandwiches and sides purchased from chain restaurants. Stripping each foodstuff from a contextualizing background, the food floa...

25 may 11

Henri Matisse vs. Pablo Picasso – Sweet & Sour Chicken

Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse were two of the most influential Modernist artists working in the first half of the twentieth century. The two artists met in 1905 at one of the gatherings of Gertrude...

19 may 11

Colour Blue – Pablo Picasso – Broccoli + Blue Cheese Soup

The colour blue – reserved for the robes of the holiest of mothers – was one of the rarest and most expensive pigments in use during the Renaissance. For the depiction of Virgin Mary, onl...

12 may 11

Claude Monet – French Toast with Garlic + Herbs

Within the history of art, the egg has been used to symbolise life, rebirth, fertility and potential. The icon has a long history and according to Silvia Malaguzzi in Food and Feasting in Art, “...

28 apr 11

Janet Tavener – Vanilla & Blueberry Frozen Fruit Mold

Currently on view at Brenda May Gallery is a curated group exhibition titled Art + Humour Me featuring the works of twenty Australian contemporary artists. In addition to a cardigan wearing tree, the...

13 apr 11

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