One of my customers, Deborah Cheeseman created a beautiful and creative Alice in Wonderland theme carving display for her local “Night to Shine ” Event at her Church. What is A Night to Shine? “A Night to Shine” is the name of a wonderful prom event for people with special needs. The Tim Tebow Foundation […]
The Taste of Peace Chef’s Organization in Jerusalem held a carving competition to celebrate International Peace Day. One of my talented customers in Israel, Tzipy Cohen served as a judge. She sent photos of the competition to share with you. The International Day of Peace, also known as World Peace Day, is observed annually on […]
The 2016 Culinary Olympics (also known as the Internationale Kochkunst Ausstellung or IKA) will be taking place Oct 22nd to Oct 25th. Every 4 years, since 1896, chefs from around the world get together in Erfurt Germany to demonstrate some of the best and most beautiful cuisine. Forty national teams, twenty military teams, dozens of […]
Last week I was in Phoenix, Arizona to do demo carving for the “Food Fanatics Live” event put on by US. Foods. It was a fun event. Here are photos of the vegetable and fruit carvings that I made. US. Foods is a leading distributor of food items, ranging from fresh meats and produce to […]
One of my blog readers, Brenda Joyce e sent me these old photos of ornamental orange peeling. Although fruit carving has been around for hundreds, if not thousands, of years in Asia, these are the oldest photos I’ve seen. This article on ornamental orange peeling was published in a 1905 edition of American Home and […]
Both the transfer pattern paper and the pattern transfer fabric make transferring pumpkin carving patterns and watermelon carving patterns faster, easier and more accurate than other pattern transfer methods. How do the Pattern Transfer Paper and Pattern Transfer Fabric differ? That is what this article and this video are about. We introduced the Pattern Transfer […]
It’s fun for me to see the progress and successes of my vegetable and fruit carving students. Although, I created my lessons and offer them to people all over the world, I often don’t get to see their successes until they send me their stories and photos. Like many of my customer/ students Maria Yolanda […]
The food art competition winners at Solebrate created some stunning fruit carving displays at last month’s competition. Lucky for you, we have the photos to share too! About a month ago we posted a blog about upcoming food art competitions and Solebrate Food and Music Festival held the first fruit carving event on our list […]
About a year and a half ago, I had the honor of judging a fruit carving student competition at an event called Carve IV that took place in Holland, Michigan at the city’s bustling Farmer’s Market. It was my second year that I had the honor of serving as a judge for the Collegiate National […]
This blog post features the lovely fruit and vegetable carvings of one of my student/customers, Allan Jarvis. Allan is in Queensland, Australia. In one of Allan’s first emails to me he told me that he was introduced to fruit and vegetable carving many years ago in Thailand but had not done too much until recently. […]
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