What’s on Your Plate?

Oct 3

Food is art and art is food

Food can create a better mood

Peach pie, bundt cake, ratatouille, beef steak

What kind of food art will you make?

Art is universal, and it’s enjoyed in a variety of forms. Think about musicians, painters, fashion designers, and chefs. These artists, although very different, can create something captivating and unique.

The beauty of art is that you do not have to be perfect to enjoy the task. Creating food art can be just as simple as cooking dinner for the family or assembling all the necessary food groups on a plate for a quick and easy lunch.

A bowl of fermented cabbage and rounded green cucumbers

A mounded ball of white

Mixed with a golden brown sauce

A sauce with rounded orange carrots, chunks of golden potatoes

and shredded white pieces of your protein of choice

Eat it while the ingredients are hot

and the spices are bold

How many colors did you see? How did you imagine this delicious plate being assembled? What colors and designs are on the plates and spoons? Did the meal have a strong aroma?

Perhaps these are questions that our 11-year-old camper Adelyn asks herself while finding a bit of inspiration from her dinner plate. Using the crumbs on her plate, she created something resembling a $20-$100 USD fine dining appetizer.

The aspiring chef recreating her dinner plate used Wild Keywest Pink Shrimp, roasted Brussels sprouts, a chive tip, and drizzled the creation with soy sauce. When you see her creation, you can’t help but wonder, “how did she get all of this inspiration from crumbs on her plate from dinner?”

Cooking is indeed a naturally colorful and enjoyable form of art- hats off to you, chefs!

We Will Remember You

For this challenge, we provided space for the campers to commemorate the lives and memories of their lost loved ones.