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Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Vertumnus. 1590-1591. Oilon wood. Skoklosters Slott, Balsta, Sweden
Art and
Cooking
Heinz D. Pelayo
February 11, 2012
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Food, Art and Culture
What is art?
What is special about food as art?
Comparing food & other forms of art.
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What is Art?
Forms of art
± Fine Arts: Music, literature, paintings,
sculptures ± Performing Arts: Movie, theater, dance,
chorale
± Applied Arts: Architecture
Why do we participate in artisticactivities?
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Art Defined
A piece of art is an object that gives us
pleasure.
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Objections
Many things produce pleasure but do not
constitute art.
Many pieces of art do not produce pleasure.
A = P
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A & P
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~A & P
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A & ~
P
Marcel Duchamp
Fountain 1917.
Damien Hirst A Thousand Years
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Modification
A piece of art is an object that is DESIGNED
to produce pleasure.
It is making or doing things, using unusual perce ption, that displays form and beauty.
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Food as an Artform
Can food constitute a unique form of art,
other than being a painting, sculpture, etc?
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Food as an Artform
As in literature, there can be a poetry to the
way dishes are described in a menu.
Te nd e r pi eces of ch i c k e n se a son e d wit h a uniqu e spi ce bl e nd fri e d to
gold e n pe rf ec tion and se rv e d wit h h om e mad e
gravy.
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Food as an Artform
As in music, there is a rhythm to a great meal,
when it flows from one course to another like
a symphony.
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Food as an Artform As in painting and sculpture, the visual
aspects of a dish can enhance the
appreciation of it.
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Food as an Artform As in theater, the way something is
presented, by people in costumes, with music
playing, with precise timing ± is as much a
part of the experience as the thing itself.
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Food as an Artform And as in architecture, while the subjects in
question are at their most basic level, they
are functional.
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What Leading C
hefs T
hink
³Cooking is indeed an artistry, it¶s a form of
creativity and expression, especially the more
defined you become with your cuisine. Thedirection you decide to take it in ±your
personal style- usually depends on your
background and your education´
- Bradley Ogden
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What Leading C
hefs T
hink
³We are certainly associated with the arts,
there¶s no question about that. But the
affiliation hides an enormous amount of hardwork«. What helps the chef is the simple
desire to create dishes that are constantly on
a high level. It¶s a shame you can¶t put it on
canvas´- Gray Kunz
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What Leading C
hefs T
hink
³ Architecture in the Midde Ages was the
mother of arts« you had to be a sculptor, a
painter and a musician« Careme was afrustrated architect who constructed edible
pieces montee. I see that relationship exists ±
cooking for the public is a very visual
discipline.´- Wayne Nish
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What Leading C
hefs T
hink
³It¶s an incredibly capricious art in that it
doesn¶t last. Ten minutes after it¶s served, it¶s
gone. I was sort of miserable about that issome respects, and then I think it was Maida
Heara who argued with me that I was wrong
± because cuisine lives on in memory.´
- Norman Van Aken
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What Leading C
hefs T
hink
³Chefs can be extremely creatibe, but our
form of art doesn¶t last ± except in cookbooks.
In painting, imagination is key. But in food,you must use your senses to create, in a way,
a µvirtual reality.¶´
- Daniel Boulud
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Chefs and Professional Cooking
THREE CATEGORIES OF CHEFS
Trade Craft Art
Category ³Burger
Flippers´
Accomplished
Chefs
Culinary
Artists
Customer
Goal
Survival Enjoyment Entertainment
Chef¶s
Intention
Fill/
Feed
Satisfy/
Please
Transcend
/Transport
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Chefs and Professional Cooking
THREE CATEGORIES OF CHEFS
Trade Craft Art
Number of
Senses Affected
5 5 6
Customers
Leave
Saying
³I¶m Full´ ³That was
delicious´
³Life is
wonderful´
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The Argument of Cooking as
a Trade
³« I¶ve always argued that I don¶t think
cooking should be considered as an art for
argument¶s sake. The reason I say that isbecause I think it¶s a skill that grows out of
human need ± everybody needs to cook.´
- Chris Schlesinger
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The Argument of Cooking as
a Craft
³How do you measure success as a chef?
Well, did you get them in the gut? Did you get
them in the heart? And, most importantly, didyou get them in the mouth? These should be
your goals.´
- Joyce Goldstein
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The Argument of Cooking as
an Art
³There is a point that you are not, and a point
that you are. When you¶re able to bring your
feeling and intuition to a dish ± the artist iscoming out at that point.´
- Gray Kunz
³There are not that many culinary artists. Only
a small proportion of chefs fall into that
category´
- George Germon and Johanne Killeen
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The Art and The Customers
Customers vary greatly in terms of:
± Knowledgeability about food and wine
± Personal history ± Life experience
± Likes and Dislikes
These factors affect not only the customer¶s
dining experience but also for interpretingwhat a chef may try to express in his food.
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The Art and The Customers
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The Art and The Customers
³Non-cooks think it¶s silly to invest two hours¶
work in two-minutes enjoyment, but if cooking
is evanescent, well so is ballet.´- Julia Child
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The Art of Composition
Composition: the act of composing or putting
together a whole by combining parts; an
arrangement of the parts of a work of art soas to form a unified, harmonious whole.
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The Art of Composition
³There are some cooks who create just for
the sake of creating. But when it comes down
to eating a dish, it has to make sense. If oneflavor is fighting with another, and too many
things are going on, it doesn¶t work.´
- Bradley Ogden
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The Art of Composition
The starting point is a classical foundation:
some, and preferably much, familiarity with
ingredients and techniques. In addition, a chef¶s individual preference will,
over time and in the right circumstances, give
rise to the chef¶s own personal style of
cooking.
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FinalWord
In order to create with food, or to create dishes, you
really have to have the end in mind. You have to
perceive a picture or a vision of what you¶re trying to
create, and create that picture with you ingredients
and techniques. The ingredients are the things thatare most visible, that you can see, and how you put
them in and whether they¶re in the foreground or in
the background or the center of the identity are the
techniques that you use to cause that all to come
together. In order to accomplish that, you have to
have experience, continue to try things and
experiment. But there are many canvasses that are
discarded before the final painting is ready and
released.