Caryn is a screenwriter and filmmaker living in Los Angeles, California. Since early childhood, she has loved all things related to food and she loves to make up stories. She designed her blog — Delicious! Delicious! – as an opportunity to practice her chosen craft (screenwriting) and her beloved hobby (cooking).

Caryn’s entry is the sixth of our ‘Pass the Mic: Delicious Design’ event that brings together food bloggers and designers to mark the Thanksgiving holiday and the launch of our new Modern Tabletop category. We’ve also created a Flickr group “Aesthetics of Food” to make your mouth water. Enjoy!

I’ve heard that food stylists shellac, glue, tease and torment their way to the perfect photo of the dish they are commissioned to capture. Because we home cooks have to actually eat what we prepare, our tools for food enhancement are perhaps more limited. Still, I firmly believe that with a little talent, a bit of skill and a lot of luck, you can make just about anything appetizing. To demonstrate the point, I present to you, Deviled Eggs.

Ah, the egg. Crack it open and what appears? An almost clear mass with a bright yellow blob in the middle. Appetizing? I think not. Eggs, like almost any food product of animal origin, need a little help before they take on the appearance of something edible. How, then, to enhance the egg? Read the rest of this entry »

Zarah Maria is a student in Denmark who writes Food & Thoughts* (“…because it might be “just food” – but you have to eat every day, so why not do it well??”). Her signature dish? Grilled Asparagus with Sauce Gribiche. Her nemesis? Custards.

Zarah’s entry is the fifth of our ‘Pass the Mic: Delicious Design’ event that brings together food bloggers and designers to mark the Thanksgiving holiday and the launch of our new Modern Tabletop category. We’ve also created a Flickr group “Aesthetics of Food” to make your mouth water. Enjoy!

I am no art connoisseur. I wouldn’t be able to tell my Gauguin from my van Gogh, or my Picasso from my Miró. Okay, maybe Picasso. People that can spend hour after hour in a museum, walking up and down aisles, standing still in front of a painting for ages, slightly tilting their head to get the best lighting on the object in front of them amaze me. How do they do it? How do they keep seeing new things, new angles, new colors and brush strokes? And why oh why wont it jump out at me? Read the rest of this entry »

From her Paris apartment, Clotilde writes Chocolate & Zucchini. Her philosophy? We like how she puts it:

Clotilde’s entry is the fourth of our ‘Delicious Design’ event that brings together food bloggers and designers to mark the Thanksgiving holiday and the launch of our new Modern Tabletop category. Enjoy!

Eat Art is an offshoot of ephemeral art that uses food as its primary inspiration or material: the artists’ work focuses on food and our relationship to it, be it emotional, aesthetic, philosophical, social or cultural. This can take a variety of forms — photography, painting, video, sculpture, scenography, installation, performance, object design — and it is, more often than not, a multisensory experience. Some of the exhibitions are edible and are meant to disappear into the visitors’ stomachs, to be rebuilt and recreated the next day.

Un Sandwich pour le Dessert (a sandwich for dessert) is a project I worked on for Fraîch’Attitude, a Parisian art gallery that specializes in Eat Art. Read the rest of this entry »

Based in San Francisco, Cooking with Amy publishes original food writing providing recipes, restaurant and product reviews, interviews, essays and insight into culinary news.

Amy’s entry is the third of our ‘Delicious Design’ event that brings together food bloggers and designers to mark the Thanksgiving holiday and the launch of our new Modern Tabletop category. Enjoy!

Someday scientists will discover the genetic marker that makes people like me think about food all the time. I’m sure of it. Then perhaps we can be rewired to not be quite so obsessed. In the meantime, most everything I look at reminds me of food. Buildings, cars, clothing. You name it.

Take a look at the contemporary organic pattern of the Spice Saphron pillow. What do you see? Dividing cells? Poached eggs? Wooden spoons? A broken vinaigrette? I see something warm and delicious. Granted the name “spice” combined with pillow leads me down this cozy path.

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Our next blogger lives in Singapore and muses on food, wine, and marriage. His blog? Chubby Hubby. His photography? Like all our food bloggers, amazing. His take on “delicious design”? Below.

His entry is the second in our ‘Delicious Design’ event that brings together food bloggers and designers to mark the Thanksgiving holiday and the launch of our new Top of Table category. Enjoy!

My darling wife S and I are both devoted design fans. It’s one of the things that we bonded over very early on in our relationship. The fantastic thing is that we also have amazingly similar tastes; we often find ourselves drooling over the same items in our favorite stores, be they chairs or cake stands. Over the half-decade we’ve been together, (and once S successfully got rid of my “bachelor stuff”) we’ve amassed a wonderful array of beautiful things to serve food on and with. And, from what I can tell, we’re still adding to our collection.

So, I was very excited and flattered when contacted recently by Design Public, a very cool online design store that also maintains its own blog, and asked to take part in “Delicious Design”, a week long blogging event it’s hosting during which invited floggers are asked to write on the theme, “the aesthetics of food.” This is a great topic. Read the rest of this entry »