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Matthias Meinharter plays the leek violin, his favorite vegetable instrument.

Vienna's Vegetable Orchestra Is a Feast for Your Ears

Inside a group that's spent 25 years turning beets into beats.

Kaja Seruga January 30, 2024

Podcast: Butter Sculptures

These works of art are butter than you think.

The Podcast Team May 11, 2023

Though the mettigel is popular now, chefs have been crafting mock hedgehogs from food for centuries.

Meet the Mettigel, Germany's Hedgehog Sculpted From Meat

Now a cult-favorite party food, hedgehog-shaped snacks have a long history in Europe.

Rachel Glassberg May 20, 2022

A recipe for a crisp radish salad set in lemon Jell-O.

How America Embraced Aspics With Threatening Auras

From futuristic test kitchens to Under-the-Sea Salad, midcentury Jell-O took a turn for the weird.

Diana Hubbell May 10, 2022

Korovai

The Ukrainian wedding bread is so beautiful, it's displayed near the altar.

So sweet and adorable, you almost forget it's based on an ancient bloodsucking sea creature.

Meet the Sweet Sea Monster of Portuguese Christmas

Lampreia de ovos comes loaded with sugar, eggs, and the long history of glorifying a most peculiar parasite.

Dania Rodrigues December 16, 2022

Khan during a previous year's mango harvest.

How India's 'Mango Man' Grew a Tree With 300 Flavors

Kalimullah Khan was inspired by a crossbred rose bush.

Kalpana Sunder April 6, 2021

Tiny radish people dancing

10 Stunning Feats of Edible Art

These museums and festivals feature food-based masterpieces.

Sam O'Brien January 25, 2021

An artist rendering of the Open Orchard on Governor's Island.

A Franken-Forest of Fruit Trees Is Growing on Governors Island

The project will rescue forgotten peaches, plums, and apricots.

Marina Wang June 22, 2020

Simon's cakes evoke the baroque still-lifes of Dutch Masters such as Ambrosius Bosschaert.

This Cake Artist Makes Confectionery Look Like Classical Paintings

Julie Simon’s sugar flowers are edible horticultural wonders.

Rohini Chaki May 28, 2019

Heston Blumenthal (right), trying to brie calm, with Thomas Meany, maker of cheeses from humans.

These Dairy Devils Are Making Cheese From Celebrities' Bacteria

Aged, ripe, and not for consumption.

Rohini Chaki May 14, 2019

A lard heart.

Salo Art Museum

This cheeky restaurant has a serious devotion to lard sculptures.

Wagashi

These Japanese sweets demonstrate the ephemeral beauty of the seasons.

Even some cartoonish dessert lampreys have scary teeth.

Lampreia de Ovos

With this egg-based Christmas dessert, Portuguese pastelarias celebrate a bloodsucking fish.

The Venus of Gyoza.

Utsunomiya, Japan

The Venus of Gyoza

At a Japanese train station, a goddess emerges from a dumpling.

Pennsylvania Pretzel Art

In Langhorne, Pennsylvania, two brothers decided to take their doughy creations to the next level.

Large toucan (with stylish top hat), covered in fruit and vegetables.

Tiel, Netherlands

Fruitcorso

This annual harvest parade features intricate floats covered with fruits, vegetables, and seeds.

Papier mâché sea dragons by the artists at Total Pap.

Whitstable Oyster Festival

Every July, a seaside town pays homage to its local mollusks with eating contests, a marine-themed parade, and plenty of fresh seafood.