The Art of Food Sculpture

By Yuci Tan

Book Overview

When life hands you lemons, make butterflies This color illustrated guide for the beginning food sculptor explores different carving techniques and offers a broad range of projects simple enough for anyone to accomplish, beautiful enough to astonish any guest. Likewise, the experienced food sculptor will find this book a gold mine of ideas. It's packed with images and stencil templates for creating amazing table centerpieces, plus plate and platter garnishes. Trained in the capital of China, Yuci Tan brings Oriental design to edible food sculptures. Deli slices never looked so good, and who would ever have thought a honeydew melon could be so versatile. Simple tomatoes and cucumbers become works of art, and hard boiled eggs, apples, and eggplants are transformed into charming characters, tropical fish, and elegant flowers. And here, finally, is the solution to that annual conundrum - what to do with the garden's overabundance of zucchini. Explore the possibilities

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764314548
• ISBN13: 9780764314544
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Easy creating like a pro

Very well worth it. Very easy to follow and get the results of a pro. Very creative Ideas all through the book

Food Carving

Great book to inspire your creativity in food garnishing. It has some great pictures. Offer several tricks of the trade. Hard to follow on some techniques. It's like a homemade book send to a publisher to have it published.

A book for all levels

I have been in the food service industry for 18 years, and am always looking for new ideas. A friend told me about this book a month ago and I've been having fun with it ever since. There are so many original designs and instructions on how to create them. And many are easy enough for my kids to do.