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The Guardian - UK
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Lifestyle
Rick Peters

Food sculptures

Food Sculptures: Prudence Emma Staite - Chocolate sofa close up
Something you can sit on and snack on at the same time - a chocolate sofa made by Prudence Emma Staite. Ever had a piece of furniture so comfortable that you feel it's actually moulding itself to you?
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Food art: Carl Warner food landscape
Carl Warner is famous for his exquisitely rendered food landscapes, as demonstrated in this example of vegetable-based whimsy
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Food Sculptures: Prudence Emma Staite - Colosseum
Prudence Emma Staite's pizza dough Colosseum brings the old adage about bread and circuses to life
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Experimental food: Earliest memories of eating out
Another of Carl Warner's works, this time a Tuscan scene lovingly crafted from sliced meat products which we'll call 'The Fat of the Land'
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Food Sculptures: Prudence Emma Staite - Dita von Cheese
Those that find burlesque a little cheesy will appreciate Prudence's sculpture of Dita von Teese (inevitably entitled Dita von Cheese). Cheese isn't an easy medium to work with, as regular visitors to Word of Mouth might recall
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Food Sculptures: Paul Wayne Gregory - Chocolate Sculptor
More sterling use of chocolate here in this bust of basketball player Cory McGee by Paul Wayne Gregory, chocolate sculptor par excellence. At last, a sportsman guaranteed never to lose his temper
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Food Sculptures: Prudence Emma Staite - Pope Pizza
Prudence Emma Staite's adventures in pizza dough don't stop at ancient history, as this monumental rendering of the current Pope shows. The Vatican might be keen to claim it as an answer to those critics who say his ideas are half-baked
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Food Sculptures: Rachel Mount Cake - 'Tune In And Brew'
Rachel Mount is described (on her own website, admittedly) as a 'remarkable confectionery artist'. Fair enough, we reckon, looking at this cake entitled 'Tune In and Brew'
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Food Sculptures: Rachel Mount Cake - 'Vintage Handbag Collection'
More of Rachel Mount's cakes, this time in the form of a collection of vintage handbags.
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Food Sculptures: Simon Smith - Butter Sculpture
What to do with the excess after you've churned your own butter, as demonstrated by Simon Smith
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Food Sculptures: Lily Vanilli Cake
Lily Vanilli's creations have a definite leaning towards the macabre. Sponge finger, anyone?
Photograph: PR
Food Sculptures: Lily Vanilli - Roadkill Cake
And finally, another of Lily Vanilli's creations - roadkill cake. It's all edible, but would you really want to? Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should
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