Please don't eat the pages

Fast Food

by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers

Dog Food

I've complained about this before:  I just cannot get my scallions, peppers and cukes to pose this nicely for the camera. I don't know how these guys do it.

I bruise a banana, it looks like a bruised banana, not a dog or a canoe. I cannot entice mushrooms to hold hands and smile. It would never occur to me that black-eyed peas make for some eerily expressive eyes, or how to manipulate broccoli into the pampered tufts of a poodle.

These guys do not need my help selling their books, which teach kids shapes, colors and counting using carved fruits and vegetables. Dog Food features dogs (wouldn't you know it) and lots of canine puns, while Fast Food depicts modes of transportation, such as an eggplant train or a squash school bus with smiley radish faces peering out.

I guess we'd better not tell the folks at People for the Ethical Rights of Vegetables. This could constitute veggie abuse.

I really have nothing else to add, except perhaps some balsamic dressing.

Rating: *\*\*\*\ 

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Comments

[brettdl]

Seriously, this book is delicious.

[panasianbiz]

I stumbled across your blog while I was doing some online research. I have to admit I haven't spent a lot of time trying to pose my veggies, but your comment about the activist group for veggie rights made me laugh.