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Laurent Tourondel: Bistro Laurent Tourondel: New American Bistro Cooking
Gordon Ramsay: Roasting in Hell's Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection
Marco Pierre White: The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef
Lois Dieterly: Sinfully Vegan: Over 140 Decadent Desserts to Satisfy Every Vegan's Sweet Tooth
Mandy Aftel and Daniel Patterson: Aroma: The Magic of Essential Oils in Foods and Fragrance
Herve This: Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor
Didi Emmons: Entertaining for a Veggie Planet : 250 Down-to-Earth Recipes
Unititled (Public Opinion), 1991
Black rod licorice candy individually wrapped, endless supply, ideal weight 700 pounds, dimensions variable.
Artist: Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996)
Gonzalez-Torres often used candy--wrapped chocolates, colorful hard candy, licorice--as a medium. Beginning this Sunday, June 10, his work will be exhibited at the 52nd Venice Biennale, where he is posthumously representing the United States.
Take four minutes here to watch the London Underground Dinner Party. Devoid of gratuitous display of food orgasms or wide-eyed brow-raising for emphasis. Ham-free, amateur and charming.
New Yorker's will NOT be viewing the art piece you see here on the left. This is the pure chocolate (looks like milk) sculpture My Sweet Lord by artist Cosimo Cavallaro that was to be displayed at The Lab Gallery in the Roger Smith Hotel in midtown Manhattan...until the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights called for a boycott of the place.
The show was yanked by the gallery after scores of complaints came to the hotel and New York's archbishop called the piece "scandalous" and a "sickening display" according to Reuters.
Apparently the group is offended by the anatomical correctness of the piece, which is made with 200 pounds of chocolate. Note that this Jesus is not dripping with blood from his crown of thorns...which apparently is fine for public consumption, as opposed to a true depiction of the human body.
We are disappointed since we'd planned an entire day around this viewing, and are surprised to learn that, 1) Jesus is a proprietary figure of any particular church; 2) The League has an exclusive on Jesus art in public spaces, and 3) Jesus may have been a Catholic himself and therefore never naked.
Although it seems that chocolate Jesus, as the embodiment of pure sweetness and unconditional love, is our religious and civil right, still, we must thank The League for bringing more food art to our attention (and everyone else's), as we now find the Canadian-born Mr. Cavallaro also works in the mediums of cheese, candy and pressed ham.
Scrabble de Fromage, installation on loan from the Tomato Estate, 2007
Still Life #20, 1962 Mixed media by Tom Wesselmann (American, born 1931)
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery
The last time the Cloaca was heard from, it was 2005.
The super-digesting machine was invented by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye as a testament to "pointlessness". Cloaca (Latin for "sewer") lights up at mealtime and is fed bite-size pieces of people food which it digests with the help of various body-like chemicals. Out shoots the perfectly formed waste, which is then preserved for sale in a glass cube.
But all product is currently sold out online and there has not been a pointless digesty performance for nearly two years in Europe, even longer on US soil.
Back in New York in 2002, the creature was served meals by a variety of local chefs, including Peter Hoffman of Savoy.
Was the Cloaca displeased? Where oh where is the Cloaca?
Fruit Bowls, early print, unknown provenance.
Still Life: Balsam Apple and Vegetables
by American artist James Peale (1749-1831)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
"Birth" by contemporary artist Mark Ryden, of Los Angeles. His images often include "dewy vixens, cuddly plush pets, alchemical symbols, religious emblems, primordial landscapes and slabs of meat". Please enjoy "The Meat Show" on www.markryden.com.
Fur Covered Breakfast 1936
Meret Oppenheim
Meret Oppenheim was born in 1913 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. She participated in Surrealist exhibitions until 1937 and had contributed much of her work before the age of 20.
and may you be warmed and stimulated in the best possible way in 2007.
--photo by H.Tomato in Bucharest, Romania, December 2003.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
Cakes
1963, Oil on canvas by Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920), American painter
National Gallery of Art, Washington
©Wayne Thiebaud
by Pablo Picasso, circa 1901. Part of the permanent collection at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, Spain.
Mike's Maze•413-665-8331•25 South Main Street, Sunderland, Massachusetts 01375
Each year these very cool people at Warner's Farm in Massachusetts carve a new maze into their cornfield and charge a nominal entry fee. The actual design and carving was done by artist William Sillin. Julia lived in Massachusetts for years, so it seems appropriate her neighbors would celebrate her along with her soup spoons and meat mallet. The Maze is for humans only, no dogs or other pets are allowed in.
The Warners say "We hope her delightful spirit will infuse the maze as we carry on our tradition of playing with and in food."
HOURS:
Saturdays, Sundays, Labor Day, Columbus Day
SEPT.2 - OCT. 29 from 11:00 AM- 5:00 PM
Peanut Butter and Hot Sauce installation by Phoebe Sudrow, February 7, 2006.
The Back Pages by Mike Hodges from the New Yorker, several years ago as it has been on the refrigerator at the Tomato Estate gathering patina since around the turn of the century.
Uncredited until someone pipes up, as we purloined this lovely from a magazine and neglected to document which, when, where and who.
Lower East Side, Manhattan, November 2005.
A luscious fig tree prepares to give fruit in an Astoria, Queens backyard.
A mobile lettuce patch thrives behind bars on the sunny Brooklyn roof of the Tomato homestead.
Flatbush Avenue, Park Slope, New York.
Original oil from the Tomato collection. Purchased from a street-vendor gentleman on Lafayette Avenue south of Houston in Manhattan for $4.
Salad Forest
All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors: Turning Into Small
Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer
Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection [DVD]
The Muffin Man
Ella Fitzgerald: Pure Ella: The Very Best of Ella Fitzgerald
You Say Tomato
Fred Astaire: Somewhere over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals
Cold Beverage
G. Love and Special Sauce: G. Love & Special Sauce
Chili Sauce
Louis Prima: Capitol Collectors Series: Louis Prima
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