HOT TOPIC: Chocolate and sweet things...

With it being Easter weekend I thought it was only fitting we concentrated on all things sweet in relation to art, fashion, music, film etc etc! Anyway, the lovely bloggers have come up with some sweet shops goodies so sit back and indulge.....

The Chocolate Fashion show

You just have to check out the video, absolutely amazing!! Once a year, pastry chef Joe Gabriel, of the Pluckemin Inn in Bedminster, gets to rub elbows with the New York fashion elite at the New York Chocolate Show. This is a three day event and sees Pastry Chefs paired with fashion designers months in advance and the finished results are mouth watering.......

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Sweet – The Kinder surprise

“The confectionery giant Ferrero has been left with a bitter taste after being banned from keeping its monopoly over the word kinder, the German word for children, on its popular Kinder Surprise eggs.” The Guardian

With this wonderful news I head out o set up a chain of kinder inspired ventures. (Oh I have been waiting soooo long for this. SO LONG FOR WHAT? To find out what the fk Kinder means. SERIOUSLY? Ofcourse not)

The chubby kinder holiday school – A holiday camp where we have our chubby loveable youths ride hit the treadmil on and of for a total of 6 hours a day with breaks in between for cellary and crackers. Lets whipe them into shape. And if they do not comply with our reigime or fail to lose the necessary weight, they will be punished by a visit from Jaime Oliver to bore their socks of about healthy eating and stuff and how to put more cash in his suprisingly fat pockets

The kinder chronicles – This really wacky innovative idea I have to put BOOKS into square chocolates. This venture will put books back into the hands of our youth. This has in no way been inspired by certain monopoly hungry firms but from pure genious brain storming.

The kinder trail – to have pieces of chocolates that have a string inbeded and at the other end pieces of chewing gum.

Kinders magic – This will really revolutionalise the wheel. Why don’t I have toys, with pieces of chocolate inside.

These suckers will never get me on any copyright laws, hahaaaa. Will they? These are a couple of other working titles that will spawn new launches

Kinder puprise - Big chocolate boxes with pupies inside. We accept no liability for the dogs nature once finally released.. I mean welcomed into society by its new family!

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"All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!"

Lucy van Pelt (Peanuts by Charles Schultz)

In ‘Miss Congeniality’, the answer by the beauty queens to ‘Does anyone want pizza?’ implied a huge resounding ‘no’. I am sure that eating chocolate and other sweet nothings would have also been proclaimed as the greatest sin to ever be committed, by these girls. That is, if there was ever this kind of scene in the movie. In today’s size zero obsessed world, health conscious individuals often prefer not to buy sweet things and if they do, they pick at them like scavengers rather then eat the whole thing. So when Carli asked her fellow Fat Bloggers to find something chocolate and sweet orientated, I worriedly browsed the internet searching, hoping to find only a few images. I am very happy to admit that I was very, very wrong…

Within the first few searches, I had discovered comic strips about chocolate, a comic strip about chocolate on a T- Shirt, a recipe on preparing chocolate covered crickets (eeek! But also one for a chocolate cake), how candy can be very rude and stories about chocolate madness in the US, in the UK as well as in Brussels. And finally whilst looking for bright, interesting pictures, I found a website that creates custom made chocolate corporate gifts, chocolate made cards and one that takes an individual’s obsession for chocolate to the next level, just by looking at its pictures!

So after this whirlwind of chocolate mania that I came across, I think it is safe to say that chocolate is still craved by the current generation and this will continue in the future years. Perhaps, especially at Easter, you should live their live by the quote above and conveniently forgot the bad press around chocolate and instead resurrect your passion for it.

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Eat the Art Gallery...

There is a lot of edible art out there, I mean cake making and so forth can be considered art, it's certainly creative and requires immense skill. However I wanted to look @ Art in the somewhat traditional sense & set about looking for galleries exhibiting edible art. There has actually been more around than you think but I stumbled across a few that I found very interesting.

First we have toast. Yes that crunchy, buttery morning breakfast snack which has been used by a few to create works of art. Oh the joys of a toaster or a bunsen burner or even a condiment - probably the most famous for that is Dermot Flynn who created famous portraits using toast and that yeast based spread Marmite. They were displayed in a gallery in London at the end of last year.

Next is an interesting one called Edible Albany which is a piece of work by two artists, Crisan and Ken Ragsdale. Ken is renowned for his models made from paper and for this project switched to rice paper.

So how does edible art alter the experience, if in fact it does? Do we think of it as more accessible and not reserved for the art buffs or those prepared to visit a gallery? Maybe it brings it slightly closer to home for some of us. It also makes the art work perishable, and like trends in art and fashion it sits aside this theme due to it quickly becoming something that needs to be either eaten or thrown away. All of that hard work and time just gone, does this make it more or less precious?

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