Put Food on the Tableau

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From a festival where you can eat the meal you see in a movie to an exhibition of food-related art, there's no shortage of nourishment in our culture. By Emma Love

In the right pair of hands, food can be transformed into a work of art. Whether by a chef in one of the world's finest kitchens experimenting with flavours, textures and presentation or by an artist who uses food in their work; it can be a lot more than something we simply consume. There have long been links between food and art, with food a recurring subject matter for a wide range of artists, from 17th- century still-life painters to Andy Warhol, who famously depicted those Campbell's soup cans in the 1960s. …