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Italy's Fashion Houses Pay Tribute to Coca-Cola

YumSugar — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:50:53 -0700

Milan's 2010 Spring Fashion Week just came to a close, and in addition to revealing their latest collections, Italy's premiere fashion houses also partnered with Coca-Cola to raise funds for earthquake victims in Abruzzo, Italy.

Female designers Donatella Versace, Alberta Ferretti, Angela Missoni, Anna Molinari for Blumarine, Veronica Etro, Silvia Venturini for Fendi, Consuelo Castiglioni for Marni, and Rossella Jardini for Moschino dressed up Coca-Cola Light's trademark clear bottle for sale at an auction during Milan's "Tribute to Fashion" show.

I like them all, but my hands-down favorite is the iconic woven Missoni design, followed closely by the Moschino milk parody and Blumarine's flirty fruit pattern. To see each bottle, read more.

Sydney Promotes International Food Festival With Food Flags

YumSugar — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:45:40 -0700

The brand-new Sydney International Food Festival has garnered worldwide attention with an appetizing marketing campaign that showcases flags made out of food. The designs, created by Sydney advertising agency WHYBIN/ TBWA, pay homage to symbols of state by composing them out of various countries' most representative ingredients.

We've included a gallery below with more photographs. Which one is your top pick?

See if you can match all the foods and flags to the right countries when you keep reading.

Yummy Links: From Hubert Keller to Root Beer

partysugar — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:50:04 -0700

The hottest chef at last weekend's food festival in San Francisco? DJ Hubert Keller. - Eater SF
How to start your own food truck. - Grub Street
If you love Pop Tarts, you'll enjoy this Pop Tart art. - Eat Me Daily
Taste test: milk chocolate bars. - Serious Eats
Where to taste wine while traveling in Sonoma. - Chow
Are you America's best home cook? Enter this contest and you could win big. - Food & Wine
Kelly Choi just got a little more ridiculous: here she is dressed up as Catwoman. - The Feedbag
The latest trend to hit the beverage scene is old-fashioned root beer. - Bon Appétit

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A Marble Floor Made of . . . Salami?

YumSugar — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:15:09 -0700

I was checking out one of my favorite websites when I came across some gasp-worthy food art. Belgian contemporary artist Wim Delvoye has created a marble floor with salami. Upon first sight of the piece, I was simultaneously wowed by the Delvoye's creativity and . . . hungry.

I already consider food art, but this installation made me consider art as food. Alas, it turns out the patterns are actually made of C prints of the meat (not actual meat) so it couldn't be eaten anyway. What do you think of it? Would you want an inedible marble salami floor?

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PartySugar Behind The Bash: Taste 2008

partysugar — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:51:08 -0700

Last Thursday night, I attended one of my favorite parties of the year: Taste 2008. Taste is a fundraiser for Root Division - an organization here in San Francisco - that provides studio space for up-and-coming artists in exchange for their services as art teachers. Food and art expertly clash at this event that invited some of SF's top restaurants to create dishes. To take a look at the food art and the artful food, click the "Start" button.

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London Receives a Marmite Kiss

YumSugar — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:28:56 -0800

This morning I asked you if you would eat a Marmite sandwich. Imagine my surprise when just a few hours later I discovered that London-based artist, Jeremy Fattorini, has created a giant sculpture made from it! His sculpture, which is a replica of Rodin's The Kiss, is 7-ft. tall and is made from 420 jars of the limited-edition "I Love You" Marmite. It was unveiled yesterday in London's Greenwich Park, just in time for Valentine's Day.

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I Want to Live in a Carl Warner Foodscape

YumSugar — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:27:18 -0800

I was checking out some of my favorite websites when I came across these photographs by London based artist Carl Warner. His series called Foodscapes are wonderfully intriguing. Everything in the photos are made completely out of food. The hot air balloons are made with strawberries and garlic, the mountains are made with loaves of bread, trees of broccoli, and houses of cheese. Sounds like my kind of town! I included some of my favorites below, but be sure to check out the entire series. When you go to his website click on Fotographics and then the second briefcase.

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Why Have a Pizza Pie When There's a Pizza Pope?

YumSugar — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:02:01 -0800

British food artist Prudence Emma Staite has a new exhibit up at the Museum of London. This time the experimental artist has created sculptures of the Colosseum, Spanish Steps and Pope Benedict XVI using enough dough to make 500 pizzas. Her exhibit will be on display until November 13.

Each piece is handcrafted and baked by Staite, but personally, I want to see the oven she baked these in!

Be sure to check out the gallery below. My favorite is the one of the museum worker grating parmesan cheese on top of the Colosseum!

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Julia Kissina's a True Meathead

YumSugar — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:58:31 -0700

Berlin-based Russian artist Julia Kissina's early photographs bring a new meaning to the phrase Meathead. In her 1997 series, entitled Feen - which means fairies in German - she shows several young girls and ladies wearing raw meat as wigs. That's right, they're meat hair fairies. I've included several of my faves below, but be sure to check out the entire series. Also worth noting are her series of sculpted ground meat and faces surrounded by meat.

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What's In Their Breakfast?

YumSugar — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:01:31 -0700

They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and apparently LA-based artist Jon Huck got the memo. In his "Breakfast" project, Huck takes headshots of folks and juxtaposes them with snapshots of their breakfast. The result is intriguing - we're all nosy to some degree, right? - and fascinating. It's also quite interesting to see how the food choices, combined with the headshots, can really give you a glimpse at what that person might be like. I've selected a few of my favorites, but you'll find quite a bit more at Huck's website.

Thanks to calamari for the tip!

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