"Cooking with colour" on Pinterest

    Goethe's symmetric colour wheel  

Evocative for me of the colours in many sweet and savoury dishes

"Today's paint colors sound good enough to eat / From Salsa Red to Creme Brulee, these exteriors evoke a powerful sense of taste"

Phil Patton, New York Times Copyright 2013 New York Times. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Phil Patton, New York Times 

How would you feel about colouring your world with a culinary palate.Colour is such an easy way to increase the nutritional value of your meals,plus colourful food looks gorgeous on a plate.

Cayenne pepper, red chili powder or kashmiri red chili powder is used to give tandoori its fiery red hue. A higher amount of turmeric produces an orange colour. In milder versions, both red and yellow food colouring could sometimes be used to achieve bright colours, however turmeric powder is both mild and brightly coloured, as is paprika,the sweet red pepper powder.Spanish chorizo and Portuguese chouriço get their distinctive smokiness and deep red colour from dried smoked red peppers (pimentón/pimentão or colorau).This colour which is closer to orange than pink consists of the simple ground paprika used to make it.When fried in a hot pan,the oil starts to release and the oil you are using for frying even turns that same wonderful neon orange colour - Paella !! By adding the natural ink from squid you can colour your rice to achieve a black risotto which can be given colour accents from fresh red chilli and lime zest.   

Orange,carrot,pumpkin,sweet potato, strawberries, basil,green olives,the possibilities are endless.Last year I sucessfully matched butternut squash soup to a paint swatch called Po de estrela (stardust).There must be hundreds of thousands of foodie designers out there amongst you.Just get coooookin with colour will you....and tell us all about it

The pantone cocktail menu at Trick Dog,San Francisco

A bar in San Francisco is now offering a range of cocktails matched to pantone colours.If it can be achieved with alcohol why cant it work for food dishes? Sadly, food and printing ink or paint will never be a natural pairing.

I am never one to be defeated.Glancing an eyerecently over some manufacturers paint charts I felt quite a few possible recipes coming on.    Seville Orange -Sumac- Apple White Paprika Lime Zest Minted Pea Lemon Chiffon Green tea, Pear.   How could I make a project of this I wondered and then along came Pinterest. Another thing close to my heart has always been scrapbooks, notebooks and diaries et al.I have always had plastic folders and folios bulging at the seams with tear sheets of recipes and articles about food and not to mention creaking drawers that I can´t shut for bulging bundles of newspaper and magazine cuttings.I started to slowly transfer all these recipes and my own into an archive on the mac and then the hard disc crashed last year leaving me "Sans teeth, sans eyes,sans food, sans taste, sans everything".So thank you pinterest for giving me the answer.I am going to start some themed pin boards to share with everybody out there and my first project is guess what? - "cooking with colour."  While you are there you can form a clearer picture of who "o cozinheiro" is,his favourite things,likes, dislikes and influences.Once you start thinking of colours in connection with food, it is hard to stop.Pop in while you are surfin and take a look. 

Related sites

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/alison-anselot-pantone-food

http://www.pantone.com/pages/index.aspx?pg=21055&from=hp

http://www.colourlovers.com/web/blog/2013/02/12/decadent-desserts-sweet-treats-from-around-the-world