This year, Gastro Obscura explored some of the culinary world’s most visually-striking creations. In the hands of the right chef, raw meat can become an adorable little hedgehog, butter can be sculpted into a person’s face, and gingerbread can be transformed into New York City’s skyline. Sometimes delightful, other times disturbing, 2022 was a feast of food art. How America Embraced Aspics With Threatening Auras by Diana Hubbell, Associate Editor From the truffle-studded towers of 18th-century royal banquets to the sword-skewered, lobster-crowned creations of fine-dining establishments in the late 1800s,…
