Atelier Food

Swedish project Atelier Food seeks new solutions and innovation through food.  International chef Stefan Eriksson began the new project in Stockholm which aims to explore the relationship between food and society.  Fellow chefs, artists, designers, business leaders and more gather to examine the future of food and its symbiotic relationships with culture, sustainability, transportation and development through workshops, food labs and discussions.

(via Wired)

Still Life by Petter Johansson Art Direction And Design

I am currently thinking, researching and writing about food to an extent that my conscious and unconscious are wandering a plan much like the one in Petter Johansson's beautiful images above.  I am unable to read Swedish to fully understand everything on the website but the interviews in English are fantastically eclectic and the ethos of the project makes me want to march to Atelier Food Lab and get involved.  I look forward to following their work closely. 

Classification Charts - Mushrooms

 Source: sandmarg.tumblr.com via Treacle on Pinterest

I have been fascinated with all manner of classification charts since I was a small girl and spent what felt like hours, but was probably twenty minutes, in a doctors waiting room. There was a poster on the wall of edible and poisonous mushrooms and I got lost in a small world of colourful mushrooms; some edible, some dangerous.  Neither of these are the psychadaelic 70s one I saw many years ago but they have the same effect...making me want to eat the correct one in order to shrink and play amongst them with fairies. 

Source: sandmarg.tumblr.com via Ale on Pinterest

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Big Hair Competition 18th century-style

 

 1776. Matthew Darly. The Extravaganza or the Mountain Head Dress of 1776. London.

(via It's About Time)

If it were the 1760s I would be the height of fashion as big, extravagant hair was all the rage, the latest trend to hit London from France.  By the 1770s the trend was satirized by the caricaturists. I particularly love the two following styles which feature whole fruit and veg stalls within the hair of each lady.

 

1777. Matthew Darly. The Fruit Stall (Market Fruits Ready to be Eaten). London.

 (via It's About Time)

1777. Matthew Darly. The Green Stall (a Hairdo fit for Market Day). London.

(via It's About Time) 

1777. Matthew Darly. The Flower Garden. London.

 (via It's About Time) 

This one has either a figurine or pocket-sized man perusing the orchards in her hair.

Becca Rothwell's NYE Duck Breast with Plum Gumbo

via Becca Rothwell's Instagram aka
@howtomakeamess aka 

How To Make a Mess

Thank you so much to Becca for sharing her photo of the New Year's Eve meal she made.  Using one of my all-time favourite combinations of duck and Smy Chutney Plum Gumbo she explains:

"I pan-fried the duck with a squashed garlic clove and some sprigs of thyme, deglazed the pan with red wine and stirred in a good teaspoon of your plum gumbo, let it bubble for a few mins to reduce down a bit then poured over sliced duck for a NYE meal."

It looks amazing!  All I want now is duck, chips and kale!

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