Jenny searches for fruit carving tips

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Over in the Cotton Kingdom Jenny sees that she has a voicemail message from Tiffi. It’s time to call her back. 

“Hi Tiffi, what’s up?” Jenny says.

Tiffi explains to Jenny that Elsa wants to do a talent show and her uncle has volunteered her for doing a fruit carving. Jenny tells her that she isn’t really that great but she is having fun learning something new. Tiffi tells her that once she gets more details she will call her back. Jenny decides that she better go online to learn more skills on food carving/art. 

‘Food art is the act of preparing, cooking and presenting food in creative ways. It incorporates everything from elaborate plating that we see in fine dining establishments to both simple and intricate fruit and vegetable carvings that are meant to be decorative in nature. 

It is hard to say exactly when food art, vegetable carving, food sculpting, and other artistic ways forms of vegetable art first started. The history of vegetable carving is disputed but many people believe it to have begun in Thailand 700 years ago. 

Others believe that vegetable carving originated in the time of the Early Chinese Dynasties, notably the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-906) and the Sung Dynasty (AD 960-1279).

What is Food Art?

Fruits and vegetables can be used to create items that are meant for a decorative purpose. You will often find examples of food carving at weddings, parties and receptions. 

An interesting thing about these food carvings is that they are edible. Some food carvings are quite simple and can be easily done at home. Others are quite elaborate and require a lot of skill and practice. 

Fruit and vegetable carving is a very common practice, even today, in European and Asian countries, notably Thailand. It involves the art of carving into the skin of the item to reveal the fleshy center, where the color is different. 

This allows for all sorts of interesting and artistic creations. Vegetable carving is called Mukimono in Japanese. 

From the simplest plate of food made for a child to encourage them to eat, to elaborate food sculpting structures that can be entered in food carving competitions and displayed at parties and gatherings. The ideas are endless.’ (Info here) 

Jenny realizes that she is going to need some kind of recipe and what fruit or veggie that she would like to do. It doesn’t take her too long to find a cute watermelon baby carriage and it doesn’t require too many ingredients. She takes notes on how to carve it. She knows that she will have to practice doing it at home to make sure that she can do it again on stage. Time to go shopping for a watermelon! 

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