Playing with his food

While we’re on holidays in Italy (thankfully getting some sun), I hope you don’t mind me blogging some non-recipe posts. They’ll always be about food though!

Perhaps Alessandro Lumare was never told not to play with his food or perhaps he didn’t listen. Either way, his plates are delightful.

His art featured at this year’s Children’s Book Fair in Bologna, which was held in March.

But you can see the following two pieces in his book ‘La storia che avanza’. The art illustrates a story also by Alessandro, written in rhyme, who told me it’s suitable for children under two. It’s published by Edizioni Artebambini and available from October 2012.

Maybe we should be encouraging our little ones to play with their food to foster their creativity?