Today for our final practical exam we had to make a dead dough showpiece about spring. Dead dough is just dough that is not edible. I had envisioned a giant cross covered in dogwood behind what you see here, but time did not permit. Instead I have a basket to hold bread you can eat, what you see in the basket is lavosh and grissini. I also place a goblet, grapes and faux flatbread and challah. I am thinking of finishing out my original idea here at the house. If I do I will post a final picture, but for now enjoy what I halfway have done.
3 comments:
It is so neat to see food used as an artistic medium like this. I love the old fashioned look and the texture. That goblet is something.
Something good or something bad.:) Just kidding. I didn't realize how artistic this profession really is. I knew there had to be some artistic ability, but not to this extent.
Of course food is artistic. The "garnish" is pretty mush the "paint-by-number" version of food art. The true art is arrangement on the plate, decoration, how the actual item looks, how the colors mix (think potato/cod/bread= yucky all white. Nice pastry with fruit and a lovely granish.. delectible.) My dad once spent a good two hours at home with a fork and a bottle of sauce, dirtying plates, trying to figure out how to "drizzle raspberry sauce so it made a nice pattern". Ok, he's odd, but he did have a point on the artistic quality of food.
You made fantastic bread dough art. To come up with those and actually make them is awesome. Most of us stuck a half a lemon or a parsley sprig on the side and call it done.
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