TEACHINGBOOKS: Has creating edible art increased your knowledge of fruit and vegetable varieties over the years? He called me up, and he said, "Let's do this." And so, there were a series of photo shoots, and the result was Play with Your Food. Joost is a packager and publisher and producer of creative, innovative books. I think the first was a zucchini, and I used corn kernels to make a mouth that looked spookily real. It sounded like an exciting idea, so I went out, I got some food and I cut some little characters. SAXTON FREYMANN: My relationship with vegetables began when I heard that Joost Elffers was looking for someone to help him develop a book that dealt with cutting food in interesting ways. TEACHINGBOOKS: How did you get started with this edible art form? Saxton Freymann, interviewed in his studio in New York, New York on July 23, 2001. (Sept.With Saxton Freymann Insights Beyond the Meet-the-Author Movie Even though the mushroom chunks and mangled potato parts are forced into service, whimsy prevails in the portraits of the frisee lettuce sheepdog, the broccoli poodle and the banana, cut lengthwise and laid flat to resemble two long yellow dogs with blunt black noses ("Let sleeping dogs lie"). Jalapeno peppers, with their tail-like stems and their variable coloration, come in handy for "sick puppy" (a queasy red and green) and "lucky dog" (who holds a cauliflower bone in his jaws). "Pup tent" pictures a lettuce-leaf shelter and a red radish-puppy.
For "dog paddle," which here has nothing to do with swimming, a green hound built from two pears backhands a ping-pong ball with a racquet made from a radish slice. Each page features a common saying like "in the doghouse" and a visual play on words. The title refers to the book's canine theme and artistic media.
They slice and pierce vegetable chunks to create animal likenesses-with less successful results. In Gus and ButtonĪnd this volume, the artists no longer wait for the poetic moment. The resulting veggie faces showed wit and a keen design sensibility.
In How Are You Peeling?, Freymann and Elffers sought out wrinkly, bulging fruits and vegetables and applied beans to form eyeballs.
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