Edible landscapes

by Emily Matchar, Posted Feb 28th 2008 @ 11:00AM

Broccoli forests sprouting from powdered cumin soil. A cauliflower coral reef. A pea pod boat drifting on a sunset sea of pink salmon.

London photographer Carl Warner constructs elaborate landscapes made completely of food, from mozzarella clouds to an entire village sculpted from chunks of Parmesan. There's a photo gallery of his work up on the BBC website. It looks look ultra-time consuming and amazingly cool.

We clearly have a deep-seated fascination with edible landscapes - think about the candy testing room in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, with its lollipop plants and chocolate river, or the lunch pail trees in Return to Oz. Or remember the town of Chewandswallow, where it rained juice and snowed mashed potatoes in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, a seminal text for the (4-year old) budding foodie?

Anyway, check out the photos. They'll have you gnawing on the nearest tree limb.

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Tags: Art, british isles, Fantasy, fruit, Fruits, Internet, oddities, Photography, Vegetables, Weird

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2-28-2008 @1:07PM Julie said... I cannot believe how incredibly gorgeous those are, that man has a gift. I would love to have some of those photo's hanging in my home. Thank you Emily, I had never heard of this brilliant man before.
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2-28-2008 @2:40PM Lindsey said... The lunch pail trees! YES! I had totally forgotten about that. Thanks for the wonderful reminder of my childhood bookworm days.
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