Food for Thought
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Edible models completed for the Food for Thought charrette at NDSU March 2008.
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Group 1
Brad Nordling, Bryan Leininger, and Maegin Rude
Oriental Bird House Feeder
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With this oriental bird house feeder, we took the idea of edible and went a different direction. We went with a house design intended for eating and living. This duplex features seperate front doors, an oriental reversed arch roof, bay windows, and a connecting passage that leads to the back patio, which is perfect for hosting bird parties. the newly planted "grass" is a luscious brown, made of crackers and corn, which makes a hearty meal. The roof is made of sunflower seeds, the house is made of sunflower seeds, millet and corn for a well balanced meal. The structure of the house is made of graham crackers. Everything is held together gloriously by a water and flour paste.
Birds of all kinds will enjoy eating their way into their new home.
Ingredients: Graham crackers, bird seed, flour and water paste, breadstick and crackers.
Group 2
Megann LV
When beginning this project I had no idea where to start or what to do. I overheard one of the teachers asking another student what inspires them, because when they found that they could use that as a starting place. So I started to think about different things that I find inspiring. I looked at landforms, buildings, other food models, and finally paintings. Finally I found some sort of idea. One of my favorite paintings is Starry Night by Vincent Van Gough. I love his use of swirling colors, the small dashes, the color palette, and the fantasy nature to the entire picture. When looking at the picture I tried to imagine what kind of foods would work best in recreating the painting. Then the idea struck me that the dashes looked very similar to rice grains, but then the problem of how to make rice into that many different colors came up. The solution? Add food coloring to the water and cook the color into the rice. From there I created a base out of cardboard and glue to give it the 3D aspect and then used frosting to create the trees and the base to cement the rice to the base.
Materials: Cardboard, Glue, Rice, Food Coloring, Frosting, Purple Cabbage
Group 3
Patrick Corrigan
Sugar Stacks
My entry for this competition is a proposed non-existing structure, seen as a three story house or building with pillaring columns leading to a viewing roof.. The structure is completely edible with all materials adhering to a form of sugar, be it whipped cream or icing, solid sugar candy, or in a simple gelatin.. The pillars, and framework, for the tower is made of alternating Oreos and vanilla icing to give the whole building support. The two base floors for the two levels are made of simply caramelized sugar water that was poured into triangular molds then let to harden. The Jello on the very top can be seen as either structurally, a glass viewing rooftop; or by culinary means the food or dish thats being presented. In ideal conditions all parts to the tower would be cold or chilled. The appetizer is rock candy made of crushed sugar pieces like those that make up the two platforms.
Ingredients: Water C&H, granular Cane sugar Jell-O, Blubbery gelatin Oreo Brand Oreos
Group 4
Dry Falls, NC Dry Falls is in the Nantahala National Forest in the Highlands, NC. It is free and you can see it from the road. No, it's not dry! Dry Falls are definitely unusual. You can actually walk behind them and stay more-or-less dry. The 80-foot high falls explode as a free-falling wall of water down to a rocky gorge below. Very popular, very touristy...but very worth it. You can avoid the crowds if you go there earlier in the morning. I chose this site because it is the place where I got married.
My edible model is made from a sponge cake, white cream icing with black food coloring, and glass sugar with blue food coloring, and parsley .
Derek Nelson
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Group 5
Adam Bishop
Classic Glass Coca-Cola Bottle
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Coke bottle made of glass sugar and edible cellophane.
When I began this project, I knew I wanted to create something fairly challenging with a sense of realism. I thought; why not create something small, yet intricate. As I drank my bottle of Gatorade, it hit me, my inspiration snowballed and I came to the conclusion that I really wanted to find a way to make a bottle out of a rock or hard candy. I did some research and found the ideal recipe for making candy glass which reacts and contains the same breaking properties of glass. Sugar glass is sweet and quite tasty much like the liquidy goodness of coke. Similar to Coca-Cola its main ingredient is sucrose.
Sugar glass is a mixture of sugar, corn syrup and water, which looks like glass when finished. It is used in stunt sequences of films where using real glass would be much more dangerous, such as diving through a window or breaking a bottle over a person’s head. It is apparently very hard to make and I had much difficulty with the recipe and this is my second attempt at the bottle. I first created a plaster of paris mould and then lined it with tinfoil. I proceeded to mixing the ingredients in a large pot under the boil for 45 minutes while stirring slowly. Once the water evaporates, the substance begins to yellow but if you take it out within a minute before then you'll have a clear translucent solid. I poured the mixture into my mould and allowed one hour for dry time.
Ingredients: 2 cups water, 1 cup corn syrup, 3 1/2 cups sugar, 1/4 tsp cream of tarter
Red and white edible cellophane
Group 6
Jacob Berg, Louie Kramvik, Ashley Mellgren, and Kylie Satterman
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Our model for Food for Thought was inspired by the 1967 hit song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by the Beatles. We wanted to create an imaginary world seen through the eyes of Lucy. This landscape contains many bright colors, tangerine trees, and flowers that grow incredibly high. The river in the landscape represents the crossing from reality into a different world. Objects in this landscape were abstractions of the objects mentioned in the song and our own interpretation, including; the groovy mushrooms that surround the river, a licorice bridge, and the marshmallow mountain.
Lyrics to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds The Beatles, 1976
Picture yourself in a boat on a river, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, Towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes, And she's gone.
{REFRAIN} Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Ah... Ah... {REFRAIN}
{VERSE 2} Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies, Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers, That grow so incredibly high. Newspaper taxis appear on the shore, Waiting to take you away. Climb in the back with your head in the clouds, And you're gone.
{REFRAIN}
Picture yourself on a train in a station, With plasticine porters with looking glass ties, Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile, The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
{REFRAIN REPEATED AND FADED}
Group 7
Mark Flicker, Trevor Quick, Ashley Hudson, Steve Eggert
Grandma's Fruity Chair
We wanted to have the look of an antique chair, and yet be structurally daring, which we found could be achieved through dryed fruit. This project began with a drying process of 18 hours, which consisted of bannanas, oranges, and grape fruit. The bananas were hands down the most diffucult, because they had to have the skin attached to be the most effective for the rocking action and durability. The backing consisted of spaghetti noodles, intricately designed to hold two dryed bannanas that supported it to stand up. The most complex part was being able to have the rocking ability of the chair, which was only possible due to the stability of the dryed bannanas. All of this lead to the completing of something just like Grandma's old rocking chair.
Group 8
Patrick Benson
GATOR_aid
Curious? just give the label a lick; wow a free sample of whats within... a simple composition of JELL-O, Sugar glass (visual aid to electrolytes + added sugar high) and bow-tie pasta noodles to provide those extra carbs, this rendition of gatorade shows just exactly what they put in those bottles
Group 9
Molly and Brett
Snoopy was made with Angel Food cake, bread and covered in almond bark, with marshmallows for glue. With Woodstock made completely out of Peeps. The ears are made from bread crusts and the nose is pure frosting.
Group 10
Erik
This food design is made from fruit and is made to be a fruit flowers. this design was made the same day as the contest and the shelf life of thsi project was only a few hours due to the use of fresh fruit.
