Hmm, curiously art media heavy this week.
1 1. The chefs who photograph their ‘artworks’
for posterity
“For some chefs, that is not enough. The Michelin-starred Julien Burlat of the Dome, in Antwerp, for example, who has devised a mini-photographic studio to sit at the "pass" – the birth-canal by which dishes leave a restaurant kitchen to make their brief way in the big world. There, the camera takes bird's eye views of his work for posterity and his database.Burlat's gadget has been installed in a number of Belgian restaurants and it caught the eye of the grand old Flemish artist Jef Geys. His business is "superimposing economies of meaning that run counter-intuitively to the pervasive structures of the art world"...So for Geys's current show at London's Cubitt Gallery, on until mid-October, the mini-studio was installed in the kitchens of five very well-regarded restaurants in London and Kent. The restaurant staff were told they can use it as they like – which has resulted in more than a few obscene late-shift jokes. The results appear randomly on a webfeed (you can tell which restaurant is on show from a date/place caption) but with – and this is Geys's input – a news headline and image from the moment the picture was taken.”
It is just me, isn’t it, who finds this overwhelming wanky. I clicked on the webfeed link and got Gordon Ramsay’s Union Street Cafe and got a picture of a disgustingly unappetising three brown steaks sitting in a roasting pan, and then a pic of someones cheese bake with a text about someone in Indian on a rape charge. But I think the link was just to one of those places people post pics of whatever they are eating – at least I hope it was.
2 2. Audrey’s Kitchen
On the other hand, here is a cook whose every move is
totally worth watching and whose every word is gold gold gold.
3 3. A week of groceries in different
countries (pictures)
A fascinating snap shot that leads to some pretty
distressing readings of food habits, scarcity, health - the whole cereal
box.
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