China grows designer vegetables and fruits in the shape of famous figures

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

In China, they learned how to create "living" sculptures, growing them in the beds and branches of garden trees. Figures of Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, Mao Zedong and Confucius are in high demand in Chinese supermarkets.

Study food carving and cut figures from vegetables and fruits - last century. The current trend is to grow an apple, pear, cucumber, watermelon or melon in the form of an object, or even a whole sculpture. In advanced Asian countries, vegetable and fruit figurines are already being sold with might and main, which people are willingly buying both as overseas souvenirs for relatives and friends, and as decoration for a festive table and gourmet dishes.

In fact, there is no secret here. There are special plastic molds, similar to those with which children sculpt cakes from wet sand, and if you put it inside at the time of early ripening of the fetus, it subsequently takes on one form or another. Fruits grown in plastic molds are much more expensive than ordinary ones, but people are already accustomed to the fact that you have to pay more for creativity, and fruits and vegetables in the form of animals, birds, religious and political figures are already sculptures, modern works of art. So, among the most popular "living" sculptures are Mao Zedong, Santa Claus, Jesus, Buddha, a matryoshka and a doll-doll that looks like a newborn baby.

Like many other unusual and strange things, this trend hails from China, which is no longer surprising. Another thing is surprising: who first came up with this bright idea - to grow a cucumber in the shape of Mao Zedong, which anyone can buy, and then just cut it into a salad.

Ironically, food and art often go hand in hand. For example, the artist Ida Skivenes went even further than the Chinese, recreating paintings of great artists on sandwiches.