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Food in movies is never only about nourishment. A meal on screen can establish mood before a single line of dialogue is spoken.
Everyone thinks they know about citrus. After all, we eat on an average at least several servings of citrus every week. But how much do you actually know about the juicy fruit you consume?
A photograph of food becomes art when it goes beyond showing what a dish looks like and begins to explore something else, beauty, memory, excess, ritual, labor, desire, waste, identity, or loss.
Food in contemporary art is no longer just a subject. From about the 1980s, artists around the world have used food as medium, performance, politics, and provocation.
Food in Pop Art is food as everyone already knows it, from the supermarket shelf, the fast food counter, the advertising hoarding, the television commercial.
Food has always been more than something to eat. Long before cookbooks existed, long before food photography, and long before Instagram plates, artists were painting, carving, and decorating with food.
