sculpting with food

It is no secret that sculpting with gum paste, fondant or candy clay is sculpting with food. 

But these media all follow the same guidelines - kneading some of the material at hand then transforming it into a new object, from flowers to animals to people. 

I've been using these media for over 15 years, and I love working with them, but I'm always fascinated when I see other food used to create one of a kind sculptures. 

Such as cheese: 

Hey Bob!

:)

 Butter: 

David gone wild

Swimming

Pumpkin carving:

Soo cool!

artist at work

WOW

Or mosaic candy portraits:

Guess who?

who Am I ?

I always admire this type of art work, because I find it much more challenging to create a figure by carving. You need to imagine each part of your subject and you can't go wrong. Or replace what you've already carved...

In art pictures created from candy, you have to spend quite some time arrainging the colors correctly with ready made pieces. That seems like a real hassle.

Yesterday I visited the 30th annual International Exhibition for Food and Beverage. 

I enjoyed it as in previous years, but it was the first time I had a chance to see up-close the work of a chef that is also a sculptor, Shimon Ben ami. He sculpts in Margarine! 

Mostly he had photos portraying his work, but I didn't take any of them due to their quility. However, he also had a great sculpture of Shimon Peres the Israeli President. 

In the following photo you can see the sculpture the sculptor and the photo of Shimon Peres. 

shimon & Shimon 

The resemblance is amazing. I really looked the way he handles the Margarine. He didn't smooth it as you would regularly see in other works created from Margarine or Butter, he gave it a rough look, similar to bronze sculptures. 

Do you sculpt in food other then the sugar collection?

The 27th international exhibition for .....food and beverage Part 2

Lets continue our tour at the exhibition:

Iris and I continued our walk and we saw these very unique looking wine bottles. We tasted the wine that was really good, and then we saw this vendor has other special things.

Aren't these great bottles?

He offered us a taste of preserved walnuts with their nutshell. It was amazing! can you imagine eating a walnut shell? it was soft and chewy. This is how they look like

The black ones, are walnuts in their shells

 And then we saw these special ice-creams made from goat cheese. We were rather full at this point, so we skipped on trying them but I must say I never tried pomegranate ice cream.

pomegranate icecream

I really liked the way this cake looks, it reminded me of a national cheese cake contest I participated in, in 2001 (I won 2nd place! and my prize was 800$ and a basket filled with dairy products) of of the contestants created a lemon bomb cheese cake that looked very similar to this cake.

Yumm

After seeing and trying so many cakes we got really thirsty so we stopped at a vendor that passed around consumable water bottles. 

However the water was warm so we went looking for ice and we found it:

check out this guy's cheek the blurry line is the ice

This is a machine that makes ice and spits it out quickly.

To warp it up, macaroons are really great cookies, but this photo was amazing, so I couln't resist. Iris, a bit tired from a long walk and tastings agreed to pose with the macaroons.

 I hope you enjoyed this on line tour.

Sharon