The following is a question that I got from a student after he viewed my post showing photos of Thai carvings at the Songkran festival. You can view those photos here: http://vegetablefruitcarving.com/blog/thai-fruit-carvings/
Perhaps you have this same questions, so here it is followed by my answer:
The question:
“Hi and Good Afternoon: I really liked the shade of purple used to dye the diakon. Other than the standard blue,yellow,red and green food coloring found in grocery stores I have not been able to locate food coloring that gives a pastel shade to carvings. I suppose I could mix red and blue and try to come up with an acceptable shade of purple but was wondering if oriental/asian stores handle a different food coloring than those commonly available? continue reading…
