Experimental Food Society

This weekend I enjoyed a trip to the Experimental Food Society show on London's Brick Lane.  I love the amazing things people can do with food - some of the exhibitors are incredibly creative and produce food almost too beautiful to eat.  Cakes by Pomp de Franc were just extraordinary and sugar art by Michelle Wibowo included a lifesize, extremely detailed Dodo.  She told me that it was so easy a monkey could do it but I didn’t believe her - the detail was incredible

I’m afraid that I chickened out of trying the snack box by food adventurer Stefan Gates largely because having fed mealworms to my pet hamster as a child I have not been able to face eating them myself and the curried mealworms with bee vomit on yoghurt were just a step too far for me.  I am sure they were delicious though and I enjoyed listening to the snackers playing their carrot bassoons.  Other delights in the box included a bum sandwich and jellyfish, fungus and noodle salad and lambs testicles on cous cous.

I did make my own blend of tea with the Girl with the the Golden Cup using mint, lavender, rose, ceylon tea, borage and white tea.  It was lovely and I wish you could buy it in bags.

One of the most interesting exhibits was by Emily Crane, Cultivated Couture - she has created delicate and beautiful materials from micro-nutrients to produce unique and transient fashion, experimenting with natural and edible ingredients known as high tech kitchen couture.

It was a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach, and a fascinating day out.