“Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening” is one part coffee table book and two parts indispensable gardening guide. The hardbound book is more like an elegant cookbook instead of another how-to for ...

For some of us, cooking and baking are about more than merely putting a plate of food on the table. Especially around the holidays, food is often about presentation and ceremony. This is the time of ...

A 17-century painting by Giovanni Stanchi. Does a sliced watermelon in a mid-17th century Italian painting reveal how breeding and genetic modification have altered food’s physical properties over ...

It's often said you first eat with your eyes, but one Australian artist is reimagining how we look at food. Mundane Matters is the project of Danling Xiao, a Sydney-based artist who transforms fruits ...

Phoenix artist Sandra Marshall accepted the challenge. A few years later, she has a three-book deal, a growing social-media fandom, a collection of remarkable food art photos and children who eat ...

They say you can't have your cake and eat it, but it's more than possible to have your avocado and carve it. Half of it, anyway. Food sculptor and artist Daniele Barresi has proved it. That finely ...

In May of 2023, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art transformed its outdoor spaces into a vegetable garden, drawing backlash. (photos by and courtesy Sadra Mohaqeq) In a surprising turn of events ...

Maurice Richard Grosser learned to read Homer and hunt squirrel under the tutelage of the late William Robert (“Old Sawney”) Webb, white-bearded, tobacco-chewing Confederate veteran, classicist and ...