{"id":2402,"date":"2016-03-25T19:58:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T11:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/25\/photographer-turns-old-food-scraps-into-new-pieces-of-art\/"},"modified":"2016-03-25T19:58:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T11:58:37","slug":"photographer-turns-old-food-scraps-into-new-pieces-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/25\/photographer-turns-old-food-scraps-into-new-pieces-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer turns old food scraps into new pieces of art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lauren Purnell has a real talent for playing with food.<\/p>\n

On her blog\u00a0Culinary Canvas<\/a>, Purnell turns leftover food scraps into small collages.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: 25 pieces of food art that are too cute to eat<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Purnell tells Mashable<\/i>\u00a0that her adventures in food art began in college with a humble plate of spaghetti that she transformed into a “tree” using the leftover scraps. She\u00a0has since elevated her\u00a0<\/span>plate to more ambitious designs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She’s created garden scenes from herb leaves and bicycles from orange slices, but her signature is the hummingbird.<\/p>\n

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The pieces Purnell posts on Culinary Canvas make use of the scraps \u2014 peels, pits, skins and more \u2014 that she might otherwise toss out after cooking. When she does use the occasional fruit slice or whole berry, she’ll save them for eating later. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More about Food Art<\/a>, Photography<\/a>, Pics<\/a>, and Watercooler<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lauren Purnell has a real talent for playing with food. On her blog\u00a0Culinary Canvas, Purnell turns leftover food scraps into small collages. SEE ALSO: 25 pieces of food art that are too cute to eat Purnell tells Mashable\u00a0that her adventures … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1654,954,754,735],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-food-art","tag-photography","tag-pics","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}