Edacious - Food Talk For Gluttons

In last week's podcast we talked about how one ingredient, salt, can reveal the history of an entire region. But what if you took it further? Meet artist Amy Cameron Evans, a painter who creates narratives based on found objects and food. They're modern still lifes. But they're much more. As Artist-in-Residence for the 2015 Appalachian Food Summit, Amy used recipes and profiles from the Saltville Community Cookbook to create portraits of the wonderful women who contributed their best recipes, and sometimes Glamour Shots (remember those?) to the book. By painting just a few objects and assigning a title, the viewer gets a mental image, a real sense of who this person was. For example, in my favorite piece “Velma Had a Secret” the only thing she paints is a cardboard box of ice cream, some bacon, and a pickle alongside a swatch of fabric. An entire story in just a few words and images. Velma was created from Amy's imagination, but in my mind I have an entire picture of what she looked like. What makes her Saltv