[…] Scientific American: “Old Art Offers Agricultural Info” “Art museums are filled with centuries-old paintings with details of plants that today give us clues about evolution and breeding practices. Full Transcript Pieter Bruegel’s iconic 1565 painting The Harvesters hangs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The work depicts peasants cutting stalks […]

[…] Got Through the Pandemic BU Today: Groce Pepin Innovation Laboratory In this lengthy interview, Jacques talks about his artistic inspiration, his “Art of the Chicken” book, tips for buying chicken and eggs, cooking liver, mishaps with chicken embryos and Julia Child, a cooking demonstration catastrophe, why you should cook with your kids early, different […]

[…] Sarah Wolf in 2022. From “Homeward Bound” “An April graduate from Fresh Starts Culinary Academy has been honored with the 2022 Gloria Pépin Memorial Grant of $5,000 for continuing culinary studies. Sarah Wolf stood out as an “outstanding female graduate of a program supported by the Jacques Pépin Foundation. Before joining our training, Sarah […]

[…] 1) The Guardian: “Why Cooking was the Original Artform – and is Still the Most Universal” “Can food be art? Can art be food? These are fun questions to ask in the season of overeating. Maybe if we can see all that turkey and stuffing and pudding and cheese as in some way a […]

[…] lifestyles. Thus, it is no wonder that the depiction of food in art spans across cultures and all of recorded human history. Appearing in myriad contexts, this practice stretches back to ancient Greece and Rome where banquets and bacchanals were consuming passions celebrated in literature, painting, and mosaics. Drawings of food could also be […]

[…] restaurants, people’s homes and in hotels. We don’t necessarily believe that they nourish us like the Egyptians did but we do clearly find something very appealing, com forting almost, by having paintings of food. During the Renaissance period, still life objects (often including food) were subtly incorporated into paintings with religious themes. Realism and […]

[…] whether great chefs are artists in the traditional sense of the word, I use the criteria that Aristotle set out around 300 B.C. One must pose three questions about each work of art: Is it good—does it achieve what its maker set out to do? Is it beautiful—in the case of food, does it […]

[…] artwork are made using the giclée technique. Here’s an overview of how these art prints are made. Unlike home or office printers, a giclée printer requires specially- formulated inks and specialty papers, resulting in the highest possible quality for each print. Unlike traditional offset lithography, there is practically no dot pattern. The prints are […]

[…] the Country “The Jacques Pépin Foundation (JPF) advances Jacques’ love of culinary arts and teaching through video and recipe production and curriculum development, expanding education and training for all. We provide grants and other resources to community-based culinary arts training programs nationwide, supporting those organizations that help individuals detached from the workforce gain confidence, […]

[…] lifestyles. Thus, it is no wonder that the depiction of food in art spans across cultures and all of recorded human history. Appearing in myriad contexts, this practice stretches back to ancient Greece and Rome where banquets and bacchanals were consuming passions celebrated in literature, painting, and mosaics. Drawings of food could also be […]

[…] and food and wine writer, Barkan organized his book according to his self-proclaimed ‘hungry eye,’ which roves from Pompeiian mosaics to Bible passages to Shakespearean plays in search of food and drink. This approach, which Barkan calls “reading for food,” interrogates occurrences of hunger, thirst, flavor, and pleasure in ancient to early modern culture […]

[…] a “controlled creation,” which is an oxymoron. Yet, there is some truth in this, certainly, in the cooking process, where the talent is controlled by years of practice. Painting is a frustrating process for me, although I get great satisfaction from it. Occasionally, something magical happens, and I end up with a picture that […]

[…] the infant Jesus to a fowl indelicately handled by a lusty kitchen maid, food and drink appear in myriad contexts over four centuries of European painting. The practice of depicting food and feasting stretches back through the Middle Ages to ancient Greece and Rome, where banquets and bacchanals were consuming passions celebrated in literature, […]

[…] time from people living nomadic lives as hunter-gatherers to settling in communities to raise crops and livestock. This was a time when agriculture also influenced design. The practice of growing crops in rows, as well as regular patterns in weaving wool and flax for cloth, influenced the repetitive decoration of pottery, plastered walls, and […]

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