You Should Turn Your Kitchen into a Children's Playground

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You Should Turn Your Kitchen into a Children's Playground

Let joy be unconfined. Step back from the glossy, flavor-by-numbers doctrine set by food advertising, cookbooks, and magazines and throw your beef and red wine like caution to the wind. At least that's what's happening in my food photography.

There is, as far as I can tell, only one group of people with the ability to be entirely freewheeling with food and still be socially accepted: pregnant women. If a woman with child enters a restaurant and demands garlic shrimp dipped in chocolate sauce, for example, no one is going to say no. You give the lady what she wants. It's a rite of passage.

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But perhaps we should all take a leaf from the pregnancy rulebook and be less uptight about our flavor combinations. For example, shrimp are sweet. Cake is sweet, too. Why don't we have them together? Because people might think we're mentally unstable. However, just because we don't see such items together on a day-to-day basis, it doesn't mean we shouldn't.

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Let joy be unconfined. Step back from the glossy, flavor-by-numbers doctrine set by food advertising, cookbooks, and magazines. Throw your beef and red wine like caution to the wind. There are plenty of high-end restaurants out there serving all manner of wacky combinations—desserts made from parsnips and the like—but we regular folk owe it to ourselves to not eat the same things day in, day out. Unless you're a bio-hacker, that is.

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For the sake of discovery, you have to sacrifice comfort. I want silly food and weird tastes and don't want to treat each meal like it's a fucking religious experience. Sometimes, in our collective obsession with food being as beautiful and well-balanced as possible, we lose a sense of fun. That's what I wanted to inject into food with my pictures: fun. And who knows, some of them might just work.

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