What Color is Dinner? | Gastro Obscura

To Jen Monroe, the color white is about commercialism and hygiene. Yellow? Fungus and rot. Pink? A mix of childhood nostalgia and horror. The chef and artist began hosting monochromatic dinner parties after reading about an all-black funeral dinner in a book. Now, she creates edible whimsy-from white iPhone sushi to aquarium gelatin molds-for all sorts of fantastical events.
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[@sac7404]

Whoa
This is one of those things you think you get it, but then realise you dont really get it, and there are more layers to it.
Just beautiful!

[@Euterpe416]

I want to see more colors!

[@bonster101]

I already love this series

[@rootmediastudio7689]

Thanks!

[@NekoWinters]

A0 is BACK?!?!?!

[@atlasobscura]

SURE ARE!

[@Trying2bsome1]

Gentle

[@Propterquia]

Anyone knows the name of the book she refers to?

[@rootmediastudio7689]

It's "A Rebours" ("Against Nature" in English) by Joris-Karl Huysmans.