For a nation on a Bake Off sugar high,a new contest to find the best food art is a delicious diversion – but it will never feed the soul like the real thing
Britain loves baking. A nation was glued to its screens to see Nadiya Hussain win The Great British Bakeoff recently, as whether a TV cookery explain actually mattered.
Me too. In fact, or I am so down with the Great British Bake Off that I agreed to be a judge in an art homage to it,called Edible Masterpieces. The Art Fund contest challenges art- and food-lovers to create culinary tributes to artworks. It’s very much an attempt to seize some of that Mary Berry cold for art – my fellow judges this week included 2013 Bake Off winner Frances Quinn, though we gave first prize to just approximately the only entry that was not a bake.
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Source: theguardian.com