What is an idea for a creative food art display?

Question

Our Relay for Life team has to "build/make" a healthy snack and display and creativitiy is essential. Does anyone have an idea of what we can build using food? Almost like food art?

Answer 1

For Christmas I built a fruit centerpiece.
First I hot glued a large foam craft cone to a cheap decorative platter.
Next lay parsley leaves around the bottom of the cone.

Use toothpicks and wooden skewer to fasten various fruit to the cone, starting with the biggest fruit on bottom and working your way up. Mix it up and play with color.

Use small grape clusters, nuts, and cranberries to fill in the spaces. Add more parsley throughout for color. Let some fruit "spill" on the platter and try adding seasonal decoration. For fall try red leaves. Tulips for spring etc.

The cone can be as big as you like. Mine was about a foot and a half high, but it would be easy to make it up to three feet high. Have fun!

Answer 2

Sure, go buy a small basket, a couple of packs of barbque skewers and some florists foam. Also buy a book of garnishes.

From the grocery buy:

radishes for radish roses
carrots (also a garnish flower)
etc.

blace the "flowers" on the ends of the skewers and make a boquet when you place the skewers in the florists foam,

Stalks can be made from cellery, a lacy fring around the bottom of tho boquet could be cabbage, or red cabbage.

line a bowl with red cabbage leaves and fill with ranch dressing as dip for your vegi boquet.

You could do bread sticks in the shape of leaves and you could use food coloring to make the bread stick "leaves" green.

etc.

Buy the Garnish book first, they are all full of great ideas, and most are pretty easy to master.

Answer 3

well a healthy snack is fruit .
so you could make a face witht the foods,
so the eyes of the face would be like apples, the nose an orange, and the mouth a bannana, then for skin, fill aroung the body parts with grapes or some type of berrie that have been taken off the vines.

Answer 4

As a person who has worked many food shows for the industry, and have spent over a decade selling food to restaurants, etc., the most important tip is to remember that people eat with their eyes. Emphasize the snacks you are recommending with contrasting highly colored vegetables (kale as a platter cover), or if the snack themselves are highly covered, cover the platter with muted colored items. Cheese could be shown on a mirror with crackers, etc. Use baskets, cloth napkins etc.
An idea would be to create a kiosk. You could hang woven garlic strands and dried bunches of condiments (rosemary, thyme, etc) on one side (emphazising the use of condiments instead of oversalting when cooking), another area could feature fruits high in certain vitamins (bananas, mango, kiwi, blueberries); another area could be used to occupy space with dried beans inside of potato sacking (and don't forget steel cut oatmeal, etc). Soy and rice milk could be put in a metal bucket filled with ice for people to try. Whole breads could be a huge display - lined baskets with red cloth napkins and rustic bread loaves.

Remeber: color, think "horn of plenty", impact. Think big in a small space.

Answer 5

Have you heard of the 16thC artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo? He created portraits of people from flowers, fruit and veg. Google his name and some of his artwork would appear. If you could replicate a portrait that would look really good - with the added ingrediant of a little art history.

Answer 6

you know how there is like the healthy living pyramid of food? i think you should totally make that with food, like with having one sort of food as the different color background for each bit, then actually having the foods of that food group there... it would be a rly cool way to remid people of the food groups whiule presenting them with healthy snacks

Answer 7

fruits and vegies come in almost every colour.. why not try making flower shapes out of the different types of fruit? you could have half an orange for the middle, and slices of banana or carrot or somthing and put them in petal shapes?

Answer 8

Potato men.... use other vegies for mouth eyes ears and clothes.

You could also make a Fruit rainbow.... you can us both fresh and dried fruit... add some nuts as the pot of gold at the end

Answer 9

You could make a castle out of fruit and toothpicks...or build a 3D human model....

Answer 10

my friend in high school made a giant bannana out of paper mache and tin foil and paint