Good point; cooking certainly is "taste art." However, I was thinking more along the lines of technologically-enhanced artificial art for the tongue. Sort of like artificial flavors in snapple, but in museums and stuff.
Have you heard about this company (don't remember the name) who's developing a "flavor printer" for computers? So people could taste samples of things before ordering them? Supposedly it works like an ink-jet printer, combining the four basic flavors and putting them on "flavorless" wafers.
Seriously! You could go to some web page, click a button, and taste bacon or chocolate! I'm sure it wouldn't be long before some k3wL 12-year-olds started putting up random combinations of flavors like bad HTML hex codes (or bad techno). I, for one, can't wait to taste what rotten leather boots taste like, without having to worry about the sickness the real thing would cause...
-adam
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> From: R. Lim [mailto:rlim@escape.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 5:00 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: [idm] food fight
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> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Adam Piontek wrote:
>
> > given the great advances in artificial flavor and other
> chemical sciences in
> > the past century, I'm surprised "taste art" hasn't sprung
> up somewhere.
> > Like edible paintings for the tongue! A new sense opened
> up to artistic
> > expression!
>
> Hmm, ask Alain Ducasse about that...
>
> -rob
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