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Food Art

The Khauwale Patankar sweet shop in Pune makes sugar jewelry every year.

In India, a Sweet Tradition Calls for Head-To-Toe Sugar Jewelry

Maharashtra's halwa dagine symbolizes hope for future blessings.

Shoma Abhyankar December 9, 2021

From the cavity of this florid horn emerges dozens of petit fours and chocolates in a bountiful display of plenty.

Behold Denmark's Gravity-Defying Marzipan Cake

Creating one of these cornucopias is expensive and time-consuming.

Priya Mani November 23, 2021

Museo del Alfeñique

This museum tells the history of Day of the Dead sugar sculptures.

Assorted people pot pie facial features.

The Macabre Art of Baking ‘People Pot Pies’

Crafting skin and flesh from the sweet and tasty.

Leigh Chavez-Bush October 28, 2021

A scene from <em>Gone With the Wind</em>, in rice.

The Epic Landscape Art of Tiny Inakadate, Japan

Each year, entire rice fields grow into masterpieces.

Selena Takigawa Hoy August 27, 2021

Lemonade berries are as sweet and sour as their name implies.

Gaze on Ghostly Portraits of North America’s Wild Edibles

From familiar flowers to unusual salad greens.

Anne Ewbank August 20, 2021

The Cosmos cake.

This Jelly Cake Captures the Wonder of the Cosmos

Centrifuges and syringe-tipped knives are behind this edible miniature galaxy.

Diana Hubbell July 9, 2021

Clever wordplay makes this festive dessert especially appropriate for the new year.

The Easy, Edible Art of Lunar New Year Dumplings

Celebrate family and good fortune with these simple goldfish.

Grace Kwan February 18, 2021

Tiny radish people dancing

10 Stunning Feats of Edible Art

These museums and festivals feature food-based masterpieces.

Sam O'Brien January 25, 2021

To make the <em>simorgh</em> (a mythical bird in Iranian mythology and literature), the baker-artist stenciled the shape out of a tortilla.

Welcome to the Venn Diagram of Cartoon Characters, Geometric Patterns, and Crunchy Rice

One baker treats tahdig as a blank canvas.

Kayla Stewart January 22, 2021

For Tennessee's biscuits and gravy pie, only Dolly would do as decor.

The Singaporean Baker Inventing a Pie for Every American State

Her creations go way beyond apple pie.

Samantha Chong January 11, 2021

Chen Guorui's artworks—no matter the shape or size—are formed from base units of rice grains formed into triangles.

This Artist Sculpts Animals and Flowers From Grains of Rice

Guorui Chen brought a hometown tradition back from extinction.

Zeyi Yang October 9, 2020

This Janice Poon creation is an eerily accurate dish of ortolan bunting, made out of marzipan. The method of killing and eating the tiny European songbirds is infamously cruel, and France has outlawed eating them.

The Food Stylist Who Creates Hollywood's Unreal Dishes and Drinks

Hearts made out of brioche and braised human legs are on the menu.

Paolo Espanola September 29, 2020

Center-pivot irrigation observed from above Finney County, Kansas.

The Unexpected Elegance of Irrigation Systems From Above

Architect Ronald Rael is documenting this aerial perspective.

Matthew Taub August 26, 2020

Slicing into these cakes reveals their geometric interiors.

The Mesmerizing Geometry of Malaysia's Most Complex Cakes

Bold colors and designs set kek lapis Sarawak apart.

Samantha Chong August 10, 2020

In Kobayashi's drawings, his chopsticks often appear, lifting food off the page.

Meet the Former Cook Who Draws His Every Meal

Itsuo Kobayashi's art showcases the beauty of everyday Japanese food.

Selena Takigawa Hoy July 13, 2020

Fernando Padilla has designed all of Boudin's breads for the last 40 years.

The Master Baker Giving San Francisco Sourdough a New Shape

For 40 years, Fernando Padilla has sculpted with dough.

Anne Ewbank July 2, 2020

An artist rendering of the Open Orchard on Governor's Island.

A Franken-Forest of Fruit Trees Is Growing on Governors Island

The project will rescue forgotten peaches, plums, and apricots.

Marina Wang June 22, 2020