| Face Food: The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes |
By Christopher D Salyers.
What better way to make children eat than to turn their midday meals into cartoon characters and video games?
This pocket-sized book documents the very real phenomenon of how rice, seaweed, mushrooms, tofu, hot dogs, fish cakes and just about any other edible delight you can imagine are shaped into the likes of Pikachu, Doraemon and Cinderella, bringing health, heart and imagination to the bento box, not to mention a bit of one-upmanship.
A brief how-to guide, ingredient lists and interviews with charaben (character bento) enthusiasts illuminate the many dynamic reasons behind this wholly Japanese pursuit.
Hardbound: 80 pp.
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