What combines culinary and art?

When I was in junior high school, most of my friends were expecting me to be somewhere in the art & design industry. Yes, I was the one who loves to do sketches, make wall magazines (mading), even design tattoos.

Eventually, they were shocked because of my choice going to tourism vocational high school. Yes, it was totally my own choice. My first thought was actually because I don't want to be in the same major with my sister (I love variation in the family), then looking back to my interest in culture, tourism, and culinary, I reached to the final decision to attend the special school, until I end up being in the hospitality industry now. :)

But however, art is also still a part of me somewhere and I can find it through the culinary and pastry section.

I'm able to spend hours just to watch culinary program in TLC (previously Discovery Travel & Living) or AFC (Asian Food Channel). Not only because of my curiosity in food production, but also because of how it visually attracts me. Everytime I visit bookstores, I'll never forget to drop by the culinary section just to pamper my eyes with the beautiful portraiture of the food. 

One day, I was browsing for another culinary books in one of the bookstores, and I found a book that lights up the bulb in my head. Ting!

The title was Food Stylist. It is a local book but it mesmerized me how the food stylist really works and there are only a few people working intensively as food stylist in Indonesia. It was fun! It truly combines food and art. I began to browse more about it online, and I found crazily creative food artists from all around the world.

Being a pastry assistant lecturer gives me more opportunity to explore more. And the conversation with my colleague (yet who also was my lecturer) that I had today about how promising this occupation is really burning my passion to learn more. One more thing that I love about this career, It is not continuously time consuming and I will still be able to take care of my family someday. ;)

But there's one more aspect that I want to combine into the career besides culinary and art, which is hospitality, the thing that I can't get off after 4years of study. I'll figure out about it.

I hope through this blog, I can also express and share with all of you about my progress.

Here's one of my super amateur result. A Chocolate Mousse made by myself and Pak Hasan (the helper in Pastry Kitchen) for the F&B Service class simulation.

*Sorry for the poor resolution and lighting due to limited capturing medium (my whitey E71) ;p

~E.A.R to l.EAR.n more~