Funny Food: 365 Fun, Healthy, Silly, Creative Breakfasts

Funny Food: 365 Fun, Healthy, Silly, Creative Breakfasts

Theyâ‚¬re easy. Theyâ‚¬re silly. Theyâ‚¬re healthy. Theyâ‚¬re clever. Theyâ‚¬re artistic. Theyâ‚¬re delicious. Theyâ‚¬re fun. Theyâ‚¬re a great way to start the day. One breakfast at a time, Bill and Claire Wurtzel are determined to make you laugh and eat and play and laugh some more. Riffing over the years with oatmeal, eggs, apples, and nuts, it is finally ours to shareâ‚¬Â¦Funny Food!
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Not since Joost Elffersâ‚¬ Play With Your Food has food been so ridiculous and so endlessly diverting. Parents and children will giggle through breakfast. Teachers and students can laugh some more making snacks or desserts after lunch. This is a book filled with nothing but engaging spontaneity and simplicity that makes you say, â‚¬Å“I can do that.â‚¬Â And, you can...the consequences are yummy.
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Really, who doesnâ‚¬t like to play with food? Bill Wurtzel, a jazz guitarist, has been making these plates for his wife, Claire, for as many years as theyâ‚¬ve been married. Now they are turning a hobby into an art form with a social message. Their goal is to discourage obesity by inspiring childrenâ‚¬"and adultsâ‚¬"to improve their eating habits by creating meals and snacks that are not only nutritious, but fun.
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These are not your motherâ‚¬s smiley-face sandwiches. In Billâ‚¬s world, carrots turn into airplanes; boiled eggs into jugglers, and pears into guitar players. As gracefully as Picassoâ‚¬s ceramic plates found endless form so do Wurtzelâ‚¬s portraits, which seem to grow out of almost anythingâ‚¬"cheerios and bananas; lox and bagels; oatmeal, blueberries, and strawberries. Sometimes you think he is portrait artist and you could swear you just saw Sigmund Freud emerging from a pear or Shakespeare growing out of an apple. Sometimes the plates are just plain fanciful. â‚¬Å“Your breakfasts donâ‚¬t have to look like theyâ‚¬ll hang in the Louvre,â‚¬Â he says. â‚¬Å“Itâ‚¬s the gesture that counts.â‚¬Â But it sure looks like he riffed on Matisseâ‚¬s paper cutout dancers with a papaya.
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In addition to creating Funny Food - which contains both recipes and how-to photographs - Bill and Claire have been conducting workshops for children at Public School 188 on the Lower East Side of New York, teaching them to use their imaginations to improve their health â‚¬Å“rather than just putting lettuce and vegetables on their trays.â‚¬Â

Country	USA
Brand	Welcome Books
Manufacturer	Welcome Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	365 Full Colour Photographs
Model	365 Full Colour Photographs
Color	Sky/Pale blue
ReleaseDate	2012-03-27
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781599621111

Funny Food: 365 Fun, Healthy, Silly, Creative Breakfasts

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