At first glance the sculpture might not look like food, but upon closer inspection you’ll see that they are made of pastry fat, a high water content commercial product used by many chefs in the preparation of puff pastry.
With a creative eye sculptor and chef Ken Woodward introduced Alis Anipai an undergraduate in her final year of an International Bachelors Degree in Hospitality Management to the finer points of sculpting commercially in the medium of fat. The task set for the pair was to produce a rooster to represent the national bird of France and a white swan to represent the United Kingdom.
Alis chose to create the Rooster and decided to use colour in her sculpture as this would help enhance the theme of France. Alis is an accomplished painter in her spare time, but this was the first 3 dimensional sculpture she has ever undertaken.
The two sculptures were placed in the Culinary Arts Studio of the University of Brighton for the launch of the HOTPOT project which is a joint project between Institut Polytechnique La Salle Beauvais (LSB), France, The Institute of Food Research (IFR), Norwich and the University of Brighton, School of Service Management (SSM).
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School of Service Management News
26th April 2010
