Aspire To Inspire Design: Creativity From Without

A good meal can be considered to be a work of art unto itself. Food is a vital necessity for all consumers to live, but human beings have a way to harness their thinking abilities and skills of agility to heighten culinary experiences. Taste buds have a practical use as being a way to determine if a certain food is spoiled or rotten before we actually ingest or swallow the bad food which would make us sick. However, they can provide a very uplifting experience on their own by being provoked in just the right way according to our own personal tastes. Chefs around the world have worked for centuries to please the mouths of those who paid for their services. Countless cookbooks and online recipes in addition to specialty food magazines are all in place to help regular people to achieve the perfect euphoria that is associated with a food combination or complete meal which makes their taste buds sing in delight and yearn for more even when their stomach is totally stuffed and cannot hold another bite. The interesting aspect comes along when our visual senses get involved. Every good chef will tell you that presentation is truly half of any good food. Recently though the food world has taken presentations a step further to create “food art.” Chefs and artists come together and cross sides to make awesome pieces of edible art that look too amazing to eat.

The collaborative team of Joost Elffers and Saxton Freymann are some of the most infamous artistic chefs as they have worked together to write over a dozen books that show you easy ways to create amazingly cute animals and several human like kid favorite characters out of everyday fruits and vegetables. This duo want to make eating healthy foods fun for kid consumers by turning them into toys that children can play with while they get a nutritional boost. Their creations are meant for all ages and can be used for daily snacks and sides for meals or as special munchies for a sleepover or party with a healthier twist than soda and potato chips!

When i came across the work of Elffers and Freymann i couldn't help but smile and found their work just absolutely priceless. I think their vision is truly unique, for when you see their fruit and veggie carvings, you ask yourself how didn't I ever see that? To take your everyday food and turn into adorable edible art... If only someone had put healthy food like this on my plate when I was little! :)