Edibles: from hotel rooms to cookbooks to arrangements
Following the creation of a chocolate hotel room and a cookbook you can eat, we look at some other unusual edibles.
Two lucky/unlucky guests (delete as applicable) have just spent in the night in a London hotel room where most of the fixtures and fittings were made of chocolate.
The Cavendish in Piccadilly got students on a professional chef course at nearby Westminster Kingsway College to furnish the room using 100kg of Callebaut chocolate.
They sculpted a pair of slippers, toothbrushes, a tea set and even a ‘Do not disturb’ sign.
Meanwhile, German publishing company Gerstenberg has unveiled the world’s first edible cookbook.
Das Echte und Einzige Kochbuch (literally ‘the real and only cookbook’) is made of fresh pasta and can be baked as a lasagne.
There have been a host of other edible objects produced over the years, some more successfully than others. Here are a few other examples:
Bouquets and arrangements
If you don't like flowers, why not say it with chocolate or fruit? There are several companies that will whip up a tasty bouquet for someone special. Or if you want to give your wedding a twist, you could also consider edible table arrangements.
Cards
You want to make an impression to prospective business partners so what do you do? Hand them a piece of beef jerky with your credentials on it and hope they record them before they eat the card. However, you can also find sweeter varieties, along with a range of edible birthday and occasion cards.
Menus
In the mid-noughties, Homaru Cantu, head chef at Chicago’s Moto restaurant, began producing edible menus. He adapted an inkjet printer to print on edible paper using fruit and vegetable ‘ink’, before dipping the menu paper in a flavoured powder and either freezing it or baking it.
Tableware and cutlery
This has been tried across the world, from Japanese rice plates and bowls to vegetable bowls. In his TV series Heston’s Medieval Feast, Heston Blumenthal (who else?) shocked his celebrity guests by making dessert knives and spoons from chocolate, napkins from fondant icing and candles from white chocolate. You can see how he did it by watching the clip below:
Underwear
From bras made of sweets to chocolate panties, the edible underwear market is interesting, albeit not necessarily very tasteful (or arguably tasty).
Edible hats
And, finally, who can forget Homer’s nacho hat from the 1994 Simpsons episode Homer Loves Flanders? A few people have tried to create this somewhat dubious culinary creation themselves. Here’s one example from a young man in the US:
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