Paper, yum!Besides serving top-notch cuisine, Chicago's Moto restaurant dishes out edible photographs of food--flavored to taste like the real deal. To create the flavorful flavorful - flavour photos, Homaro Cantu Homaro Cantu, inventor, entrepreneur, chef, and molecular gastronomer operates the Cantu Designs Firm in Chicago, Illinois, United States. His restaurant, Moto Restaurant, is famous for creating sushi using a Canon i560 inkjet printer. , a technology-savvy chef, feeds edible paper Edible paper , as the name implies, is a paper that may be consumed without harsh effects on a normal human digestive system. Usually, the paper has no flavor and very little texture. Edible paper is most commonly used as a cake decoration. made of soybeans and cornstarch cornstarch, material made by pulverizing the ground, dried residue of corn grains after preparatory soaking and the removal of the embryo and the outer covering. It is used as laundry starch, in sizing paper, in making adhesives, and in cooking. into an ink-jet printer that he modified. The printer spews out fruit- or vegetable-based ink instead of normal ink, which is toxic. Then, Cantu coats the paper printouts with picture-matching flavoring. Why the wacky menu item? "It's fun to eat," Cantu says. HI-TECH FOOD: In addition to paper "sushi", Cantu serves popcorn-flavored edible Styrofoam bits. |
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