NEWS: Chef Pampers Patrons With Paper

CULTURE: Chef Pampers Patrons With Paper

Remember that ridiculous fad where haute cuisine restaurants served stylized minimalist meals of a few carefully arranged peas around a tiny piece of meat? Apparently, this silly way of dining is still around, and Chicago-based chef Homaru Cantu is taking it to the next level.



In the restaurant Moto Cuisine, he is now serving meals prepared on a Canon inkjet printer. The printer has been outfitted with special cartridges containing ink prepared out of foodstuffs. He simply prints out pictures of meals on a special paper made out of soy and corn starch.



Not content with this rather innovative way of creating "meals", he is also looking into using 3-D printers, lasers and ion particle guns for levitating meals.

While I love Cantu's creativity and vision, I can't help but question a world where a man can sell $240 paper meals made on a Canon printer.

That's awesome. Reminds me of Willy Wonka.

Ehm...so, we just drive through the Golden Arches on the way home from marveling at our paper meal or what?

This is silly, but then I'm also a huge Star Trek Geek, and I think "replicator!!!"

I long for the day when I can walk up to my replicator, sternly pronounce I want a cup of hot Earl Grey tea, and have it in seconds.

Hello Moto.

Don't forget to make it hot! Hehe.

Superprint me!

What if I want ice cream?? Is my paper going to served cold??

And do I have to spread my own butter on my paper bread??

I think this is efffing ridiculous!!

although a rather cool idea...i'm just jealous that I can't charge $240 for a paper meal

Those guys need some real food.

Is that before or after eating?

Very fucking dumb. Novelties for the rich. Some of these paper-food patrons are the same people who say we need to donate more to charity yet they spend literally hundreds of dollars on floating paper food.
Amazing...

I'm not even sure if I got the joke, but, for some reason I am still cracking up.

What happens when his printers jam, which all printers eventually do? He's gonna have a lot of pissed off rich people waiting for their paper food.

The mental image I have of rich wankers chewing sheets of paper like a cow chews on grass is cracking me up. What will they think of next, edible underwear? Oh wait.

I hate people.