There are some cooks who will tell you that pork fat is the most flavorful fat for cooking and frying. Others will swear that duck or goose fat will produce the best results. Chilean artist Marco Evaristti has a different idea about what sort of fat will prodce great tasting results. Evaristti underwent a liposuction procedure and used his own fat to prepare a meal, a meal that merged shock art and haute cuisine.
The artist made 48 meatballs and fried them with the fat and served them to guests - a combination of friends and patrons of the arts - along with a serving of agnolotti pasta at a dinner at the Animal Gallery in Santiago. If any of the guests had second thoughts about digging into their plates, Evaristti reassured them by saying "You are not a cannibal if you eat art."
The remaining meatballs, since not all of them were served at the dinner, were canned in groups of 10 and will be sold for $4,000 per can.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1-16-2007 @ 4:59PM
FoodieBride said...
That's not art, that's disgusting.
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1-16-2007 @ 5:36PM
Kristina said...
I agree. That's just an extreme form of exhibitionism, in my opinion. He's literally saying "Eat Me" to all of us.
We are not amused. Or hungry.
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1-16-2007 @ 6:01PM
jmchez said...
Isn't there a law to prevent this sort of thing?
Someone already said, "If everything is art, then nothing is."
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1-16-2007 @ 6:19PM
jumper said...
If he served those to me, he would be meatballs in no time flat.
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1-16-2007 @ 6:42PM
Daedalus said...
HuFu anyone?
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1-16-2007 @ 7:51PM
Mike said...
I just listened to the audiobook version of the new Michael Crichton book "Next", this tidbit was one of the things mentioned in the book. The downside of the audio version is you don't get the detailed bibliography many of Crichton's books contain so I hadn't had a chance to look this up and see if it was part of the fact or the fiction.
In the context of the book, it was one of the least bizarre examples.
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1-16-2007 @ 8:03PM
Sindy said...
I am definately passing on this one things.
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1-16-2007 @ 8:13PM
Sindy said...
I am definately passing on this one, thanks!
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1-16-2007 @ 8:19PM
Sindy said...
GAG!!
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1-16-2007 @ 9:50PM
Kevin said...
Hhmmmm...lemme think....Soylent Green Sausage Spaghetti? I think not. It's even more sickening that this man got media coverage for such an act.
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1-16-2007 @ 10:38PM
MJ said...
Cannibal??????????????YES!! Plain ole nasty! This is as bad as the women who serve and cook their afterbirth as a celebration. Have we run out of things to do now or what?
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1-17-2007 @ 7:35AM
Nancy said...
OMFG!!!!!! What the @#*! is wrong with this guy?
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1-17-2007 @ 3:14PM
Veruka said...
That is just plain wrong. What could have possessed him to do this?
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1-17-2007 @ 4:11PM
Robyn said...
i think this is hilarious.
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1-17-2007 @ 4:37PM
Lizzyracecar said...
But isn't it amusing to think of all of those pretentious art "patrons" faced with this dilemma: eat man fat or look uncool?
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1-17-2007 @ 7:30PM
Jill said...
What's next, pasta boiled in urine?
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2-04-2007 @ 7:05PM
gm said...
What is so wrong about cooking animal tissue (meatballs) in animal fat (human fat)? Plop a human cell under a microscope next to that of a pig and they will look identical....
What makes it right to eat animal tissue but not human tissue? If the people comlaining here consider how "sickening" they think it is to eat human flesh maybe they will understand why vegetarians find it sickening to eat animal flesh.
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2-18-2007 @ 9:44PM
andesfinito said...
if u dont like some form of expretion doesent mean it shouldnt existor somehow is not valid for at least a few visionaries... most people thought that picasso (or pollock, warwhol ...u get the point)... was not art when he started, some things take off some dont, only time will tell what was its value... plus this fat was donated voluntarily by its donor, i dont think any meat or fat you may eat was obtained that way, wich one is wrong again?, simbolic expresion..... or death?...
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