Thank you @Francesca, I will be fascinated to read the book. Did you have a part in its creation?
Corrected.It should be "becomeS" art in the title.
Hmm, maybe not. Art is singularly plural.
I have been to many parties like that and hosted or at least done the food prep for plenty more of a similar nature. They are often the best and most successful.I guess on plating, it depends on many factors. The main one being lifestyle. I can't say I have ever been in a restaurant where they served a bunch of garnishes to make the food look better.
You get your meat and your sides. Not even fancy at the high end steak houses here.
As to the comment about friends and food, I am probably fixing to horrify some of you.
I once had a dinner party. The guests ranged from teacher to nurse to financial to retired to college students. One student was upper class. All walks of life.
The guests were handed a plate and told to help themselves off the stove.
They all devoured the gravy they found in a bowl off to the side. (That wasn't gravy. It was the pan drippings from the roast chicken. So it was chicken fat, bacon, and margarine. )
Everyone loved the dinner and asked if they could come back next year.
Now yes, the upper class guy did look rather shocked at first but he promptly got over it.
From a science background.The big question: What is art? Always a favourite for a rainy afternoon in Fife
From a science background.
In its simplest form :
Art is created
Science is discovered
Someone somewhere will always discover something in science. It is simply a matter of time (ok and often the money into research), but the point is that something Nitrogen or Flanks constant were always going to be discovered. Something like my landscape photos, below for example, was created because even though there were other there at the same time, they don't see it the same way I do. No-one else could have taken that picture. It would always have been different. It wasn't waiting to be discovered. No matter what scientific principles I used, it could not be duplicated, period. I see things differently to the next person standing alongside me. I have been on training courses in landscape photography lead by a professional landscape photographer and students sitting next to me on the Isle of Skye with the identical equipment neither saw nor took the same images. In some cases, they took nothing because the didn't see what was there to be taken. I on the other hand, saw things differently to them so my photos are by definition not science, but art.Not unreasonable, but if we create something using scientific principles then science and art must necessarily meet.
When hubby and I each toted our own camera on vacations and day trips, we would set up to take a photo of the same scene. When we got home, or even when we stopped for a bite to eat, we'd compare shots. Most of the time, we each framed the scene completely differently. Now, we just snap shots with our phone cameras and call it a day....I have been on training courses in landscape photography lead by a professional landscape photographer and students sitting next to me on the Isle of Skye with the identical equipment neither saw nor took the same images...