Famous For My Dinner Parties
Famous For My Dinner Parties began as an online magazine focussed on celebrating, portraying, questioning and discussing different aspects of the culture around food and eating. It now joins UPPERORANGE as a content creation collective, offering everything from concept development to text, photography and video — dealing with food and most other things.
dinner at the museum
Of all big words — love, God, beauty — art might be the hardest one to define. Of course, we each have our personal definitions of what art is, and, equally important, what it isn’t. In talking about “the arts”, however, one illusive art form is often mentioned that doesn’t quite seem to fit anyone’s mould: culinary art, also known as food. Food, in the context of art, is the only category that fulfils a physiological need. Without it, we quite literally die. So what, then, turns something all animals do — eating — into something that defines humanity: the expression of creativity in the form of art.
easy and delicious!
banana fever
Food memories that are impossible to recreate grow to mythical sensations in our minds. One example is a now legendary banana by the name of Gros Michel, which was the first banana produced on an industrial scale before it was wiped out by the fungal Panama disease — with a flavour more reminiscent of the musky sweetness of banana sweets and a custard-like texture. Some small-scale operations still grow this banana, which has caused many to travel far and wide in hope of tasting the banana again — or for the first time.
a futuristic food utopia and what became of it
In the early twentieth century, the Futurists of Italy embraced technology, speed, youth and violence in search of a life sizzling with exciting novelty. Coming from a country with such a strong culinary tradition, they soon realised that in order to make a hard cut with history, they would have to tackle the culinary arts as much as any other.
dreamland
An old recipe for orange bavarois meant a gateway to a bigger, more exciting world for young girls studying domestic arts in 1946.
engraft
An interview with Qiyun Deng about her cutlery set ‘engraft’, which takes inspiration from nature in both its form and construction.
bashing brunch: love, hate & the internet
Brunch is big business, it can’t be denied. But for a seemingly harmless meal, it also gets a remarkable amount of hate. Has the internet turned brunch into a battleground of the class war? What on earth happened?
bedtime stories
Social distancing is rough, but it also has its advantages. Why not have a little party without squeezing yourself into uncomfortable shoes. Why leave your bed. Like, ever?
a little bit of magic: fad diets and their failed promises
