sweet dreams around the world
March 11, 2007 3:11 PM Subscribe
The art of sugar: flowers, lace, birds, sculpture, cubes, gardens, construction site, houses, paintings, underwear. In Britain. In Mexico sugar skulls are created to celebrate the Day of the Dead. Amezaiku is a Japanese candy craft and wagashi the art of Japanese confection.
I really enjoyed the wagashi link.
I was asked once to name a food that I enjoyed with all five senses which is a fairly difficult but interesting question to answer. I think the answer I eventually arrived at was popcorn.
posted by inconsequentialist at 4:22 PM on March 11, 2007
I was asked once to name a food that I enjoyed with all five senses which is a fairly difficult but interesting question to answer. I think the answer I eventually arrived at was popcorn.
posted by inconsequentialist at 4:22 PM on March 11, 2007
At $10 a serving, who wouldn't want that lace cake?
This has the fascinating effect of turning on both my sweet tooth and my creative buttons... Something I'll have to try my hand at, perhaps. Neat post, thanks!
posted by po at 4:44 PM on March 11, 2007
This has the fascinating effect of turning on both my sweet tooth and my creative buttons... Something I'll have to try my hand at, perhaps. Neat post, thanks!
posted by po at 4:44 PM on March 11, 2007
Wow indeed—great post!
posted by languagehat at 5:21 PM on March 11, 2007
posted by languagehat at 5:21 PM on March 11, 2007
This thread and MeFi thread 58282 could use fondant tags.
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:59 PM on March 11, 2007
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:59 PM on March 11, 2007
That skull crawling with caterpillars and butterflies on your Day of the Dead link is fabulous. Can't get enough of those skulls!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:42 PM on March 11, 2007
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:42 PM on March 11, 2007
Seconding the thank you for the wagashi. I can't believe I've never heard of that!
posted by fiercecupcake at 6:51 PM on March 11, 2007
posted by fiercecupcake at 6:51 PM on March 11, 2007
Yum Yum Yum... I was craving something sugary after clicking the links, and all I could find was an ice cream bar... I'm trying to pretend that it's a lace cake.
posted by amyms at 7:04 PM on March 11, 2007
posted by amyms at 7:04 PM on March 11, 2007
The sugar orchids are the perfect trifecta of beautiful, vaginal, and probably DELICIOUS.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 9:13 PM on March 11, 2007
posted by grapefruitmoon at 9:13 PM on March 11, 2007
Emiliano Godoy is an industrial designer who's experimented with the sugar-building techniques of Day of the Dead celebrations. He's used sugar as a 100% biodegradable material for some interesting products, like table lamps and golf tees.
posted by hydrophonic at 7:22 AM on March 12, 2007
posted by hydrophonic at 7:22 AM on March 12, 2007
Oh wow, love the additional links. Thanks.
grapefruitmoon, wouldn't that be vulval rather than vaginal? Or maybe both? The sugar O'Keeffe thing.
The "craft" in my original post links to Hanan's wonderful grow-a-brain blog and it looks like he just added this other charming link to a video of a street vendor in Nanjing, China [which is on another interesting blog about living in that part of the world] making lacey images out of sugar syrup.
posted by nickyskye at 7:39 AM on March 12, 2007
grapefruitmoon, wouldn't that be vulval rather than vaginal? Or maybe both? The sugar O'Keeffe thing.
The "craft" in my original post links to Hanan's wonderful grow-a-brain blog and it looks like he just added this other charming link to a video of a street vendor in Nanjing, China [which is on another interesting blog about living in that part of the world] making lacey images out of sugar syrup.
posted by nickyskye at 7:39 AM on March 12, 2007
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