face food recipes
Christopher D Salyers is an author and designer who has a long-held fascination for molded food, starting from the time he received his first chocolate Easter bunny. He later discovered charaben, which is an elaborate bento box in which the food resembles characters or scenes.
His first book, Face Food, showed a collection of charaben made mostly by mothers for their children, and his second book, Face Food Recipes, expands upon the first book with how-to guides for 35 charaben.
Wouldn’t you have eaten your vegetables if your mom had made them in the shape of Cinderella? Well, maybe not, but it does bring new meaning to playing with your food, right?
Thanks to Christopher for sending me a copy! You can see more charaben on the Face Food blog.
Responses to “face food recipes”
Emily
November 18, 2009 at 12:16 pmLooks yummy and so creative! I am making a note to be this inventive when preparing healthy foods for my future kids!
Amelia M
November 18, 2009 at 3:36 pmThose are so super-cute! Though I reckon my hunger would beat out any creative impulse if I tried to create them, they would be eaten before they were even close to complete!
margot
November 18, 2009 at 4:38 pmA-dorable. I had no idea this was a whole big thing! My mom used to do cute things with food & lunchboxes when we were little too…I’m all nostalgic now. There was always a face on the pizza or sandwiches in shapes from a cookie cutter, things like that. Want this book!