[Sca-cooks] Re: OOP food in print

[Susan Fox-Davis]

On 2/4/05 7:49 PM, "Devra at aol.com" <Devra at aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 2/4/2005 8:23:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> sca-cooks-request at ansteorra.org writes:
> 
>> I know where and when to find a Canon Manufacturer's Rep
>> (a nearby CompUSA) -- I'll have to ask if the ink for the
>> Canon i560 inkjet printer is edible.  Otherwise, I have
>> to wonder if the article was printed about 2 months early.
>> 
>> 
> But there's a company that sells edible ink for your printer, and new printer
> heads to use with it...  um..  try googling under 'Edible Ink'...know i've
> got that link here somewhere...  They use it for printing photos for the tops
> of 
> birthday cakes....
>    Devra
>

There is more than one approach to this conundrum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/03/technology/circuits/03chef.html?ex=1265086
800&en=86fc34262c705d47&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

When the Sous-Chef Is an Inkjet
By DAVID BERNSTEIN 

Published: February 3, 2005

HICAGO

HOMARO CANTU'S maki look a lot like the sushi rolls served at other upscale
restaurants: pristine, coin-size disks stuffed with lumps of fresh crab and
rice and wrapped in shiny nori. They also taste like sushi, deliciously
fishy and seaweedy.

But the sushi made by Mr. Cantu, the 28-year-old executive chef at Moto in
Chicago, often contains no fish. It is prepared on a Canon i560 inkjet
printer rather than a cutting board. He prints images of maki on pieces of
edible paper made of soybeans and cornstarch, using organic, food-based inks
of his own concoction. He then flavors the back of the paper, which is
ordinarily used to put images onto birthday cakes, with powdered soy and
seaweed seasonings. <rest of article snipped>

Selene