It is well known that love goes through the stomach. But even more important: you eat with your eyes. Before delicious bites delight the palate, today they are captured for eternity – and the best friends on Instagram. However, the range of food accounts worth seeing is as extensive as the sushi menu at your favorite Japanese restaurant. We have selected ten of the most extraordinary mealtime photographers for you. Have your fill!
For six years, Alana Jones-Mann planned major events in a New York PR & marketing agency before dedicating herself to her own creative projects. Since then, the American has been designing extraordinary cakes for weddings, birthdays and baby showers, which are particularly impressive with surfaces that are reminiscent of shaggy carpets.
After more than 14 years in the fashion industry, stylist Chi-Young Bang quit her job as deputy fashion director at German Glamor almost two years ago. The current trends are no longer staged by her, but instead she makes wonderful shortbread biscuits in Paris for clients such as Condé Nast and Kenzo. laduree? Can pack up!
At Food in the Air you won't find typical holiday selfies that everyone has probably snapped on their travels. Instead of the person, the focus here is on the dish eaten on site: ravioli on Mount Rushmore, ice cream against the backdrop of the Grand Canyon and bruschetta on the picturesque Amalfi Coast. Different countries, different food, different pix .
At first glance, the works by Dodam Cake, made in Korea, are reminiscent of beautiful bouquets of flowers that make you want to know immediately which florist tied them. On closer inspection, however, it becomes clear that instead of the vase, there is a wonderful buttercream base underneath the flowers. Definitely too good to be eaten - but all the more beautiful to look at.
No, of course nobody on this account is holding fruit up to the camera and trying to make it talk with ventriloquism. Talking Food is a fun play on words that refers to a dish or a specific ingredient. From the Oscar-nominated love film "La La Land" with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone , La La Lamb is shown - quite unromantically - in this case a leg of lamb is shown.
Always working with pens? Boring. American fashion illustrator and artist Gretchen Röhrs prefers to use whatever she finds in her kitchen: lettuce leaves, lemons, carrots and even banana peels become her hands in stylish designer dresses worn by sketched mannequins. Haute cuisine meets haute couture!
Whether fashion, interior or lipstick: there is hardly anything that is Pantone Colors of the Yearâ . And this art director from New York takes the color codes of the professionals seriously in culinary terms. Even with the morning smoothie, which, with the choice of the right ingredients, becomes a real it drink. Here are the ingredients for the current trend color Greenery :
– 1/2 cup of almond milk
– 1/2 of a large banana
– 1 teaspoon of peanut butter
– 1/4 cup baby spinach
- Honey
- Ice
Photos: kizilkayaphotos/iStock; Alana Jones-Mann, So Bang, Food in the Air, Dodam Cake, Talking Food, Gretchen Röhrs, Pantone Smoothies - all via Instagram