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All across Japan, parents come up with unique ways to bring attention to their childrens lunch boxes. And what better way to make children eat than to turn their midday meals into a cartoon? With Face Food, the artistic response team known as DETACH documents the very real phenomenon of crafting food into visually creative and appealing forms, such as Pikachu, Daraemon and Cindarella, bringing health, heart and imagination to the bento box. How-to guides and articles by designers and chefs accompany photographs, all of which illuminate the dynamic reasons behind this wholly Japanese pursuit.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The next time you find yourself groaning about making up a lunch box and/or feeling exhausted by parenthood, sit yourself down with a cuppa and flick through this fascinating book.
Christopher Salyvers went to Japan to talk to Japanese parents who spend hours of the time (usually between 5am and 8am in the morning) making up lunch boxes (bento boxes) for their children, specifically character bento boxes or "charaben".
This book is a fascinating little find. It explores the motivation of the parents in making such mammoth efforts to turn lunch into a visually familiar and edible feast. It also includes some incredible photography.
To give you an idea of what I'm on about, one photo of a Cinderella charaben made by Akinoichigo contains 21 different types of food. For her, the most important thing about charaben is "for the child to become happy". Akinoichigo adds; "I've also entered a bigger circle of friends through my charaben blog".
Christopher Salyvers went to Japan to talk to Japanese parents who spend hours of the time (usually between 5am and 8am in the morning) making up lunch boxes (bento boxes) for their children, specifically character bento boxes or "charaben".
This book is a fascinating little find. It explores the motivation of the parents in making such mammoth efforts to turn lunch into a visually familiar and edible feast. It also includes some incredible photography.
To give you an idea of what I'm on about, one photo of a Cinderella charaben made by Akinoichigo contains 21 different types of food. For her, the most important thing about charaben is "for the child to become happy". Akinoichigo adds; "I've also entered a bigger circle of friends through my charaben blog".
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This was just food porn for me really. All of the bento are far too advanced for me to make and there are no recipes to follow. It's a nice little book to own though. Looks cute on my bookshelf :D
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The designs in this book are brilliant and amazing to look at, it's a great book to have on your coffee table when guests come round and lovely to browse through. However, dont buy this book thinking it is a recipe book, there are no instructions on how to create the Bento's, it is more of an appreciation of the art of Bento. An experienced Bento maker would probably be able to look at the designs and recreate them, but it would not be easy for a beginner. Beautiful designs though!
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