Pictures good enough to eat.Homaro Cantu's sushi rolls look a lot like the ones prepared by other chefs: small disks stuffed with lumps of fresh crab and rice. They also taste like sushi, deliciously fishy fish·y adj. fish·i·er, fish·i·est 1. Resembling or suggestive of fish, as in taste or odor. 2. Cold or expressionless: a fishy stare. 3. and seaweedy. But Cantu's sushi often contains no fish, and it is prepared on a Canon i560 inkjet printer A printer that propels droplets of ink directly onto the medium. Today, almost all inkjet printers produce color. Low-end inkjets use three ink colors (cyan, magenta and yellow), but produce a composite black that is often muddy. rather than a cutting board. Cantu, the 28-year-old chef at a Chicago restaurant called Moto, prints images of sushi on pieces of 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. , using organic, food-based inks. He flavors the back of the paper with soy and seaweed seaweed, name commonly used for the multicellular marine algae. Simpler forms, consisting of one cell (e.g., the diatom) or of a few cells, are not generally called seaweeds; these tiny plants help to make up plankton. seasonings. Several items made of paper are likely to be included in a meal at Moto, which usually costs about $240 per person. Even the menu is edible so that diners can crumble it into their soup. Cantu also hopes to use lasers to create new cooking methods and is testing an ion-particle gun for levitating food. "I want to make food float," he says. "I want to make it disappear, I want to make it reappear. I want to make the utensils edible; I want to make the plates, the table, the chairs edible." |
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