The Great British Art Bake Off: As Edible Masterpieces returns, here are 11 cakes inspired by artworks
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A year after former Great British Bake Off winner Frances Quinn launched Edible Masterpieces, the competition to recreate art with food returns. Here are 11 of the best
© Photo: Maja Smend. Food styling: Kim Morphew. Prop styling: Lydia BrunA cheese carving inspired by Auguste Rodin's The Kiss (1901-4)
© Photo: Maja Smend. Food styling: Kim Morphew. Prop styling: Lydia BrunGeorgia Levy's Sarah Lucas, Self-portrait with Eggs in gingerbread
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© Photo: Maja Smend. Food styling: Kim Morphew. Prop styling: Lydia BrunLevy's Jackson Pollock – Autumn Rhythm (no. 30)
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© Photo: Maja Smend. Food styling: Kim Morphew. Prop styling: Lydia BrunA bread carving inspired by Barbara Hepworth's Pelagos (1946)
© Photo: Maja Smend. Food styling: Kim Morphew. Prop styling: Lydia BrunLevy's Wedgwood shortbread
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© Photo: Maja Smend. Food styling: Kim Morphew. Prop styling: Lydia BrunPloughman's Van Gogh
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© Photo: Maja Smend. Food styling: Kim Morphew. Prop styling: Lydia Brun twitter.com/the7starsDavid Hockney's A Bigger Splash
© Ann Johnson Photo: Maja Smend. Food styling: Kim Morphew. Prop styling: Lydia BrunInspired by Roy Lichtenstein
© Photo: Maja Smend. Food styling: Kim Morphew. Prop styling: Lydia BrunA jelly bean display inspired by Julian Opie's Alex, bassist. Dave, drummer. Graham, guitarist. Damon, singer (2000)
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© Photo: Maja Smend. Food styling: Kim Morphew. Prop styling: Lydia BrunA flapjack inspired by Edvard Munch's The Scream (1893)
© Photo: Maja Smend. Food styling: Kim Morphew. Prop styling: Lydia BrunA chocolate display inspired by Richard Long's South Bank Circle (1991)
- Visit the Art Fund's Edible Masterpieces to join in.
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Three places to learn about food history in:
Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry, Cumbria
Coinciding with Kendal's successful Festival of Food, A Taste of Lakeland, located on the museum's street scene, lets you feast your eyes as you learn about the food traditions of the Lake District and the stories that surround them. Until September 7 2015.
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Current exhibition Lifting the Lid: 400 years of food and drink in Scotland uses a variety of material - including manuscripts, books, household accounts, tradesmen’s bills and amateur and government films about food - to contrast the richness and diversity of Scotland’s larder with the myths and traditions associated with its food. Until November 8 2015.
Science Museum, London
Find out about dibblers, seed drills, clod-crushers and junglebusters in the Agriculture gallery and see how the working life of an arable farm changes as the seasons unfold. Examine an original Ferguson tractor and operate a cut-away combine harvester yourself.
