La Figa: Visions of Food and Form - Hardcover

Tiberio Simone; Matt Freedman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1935359754 ISBN 13: 9781935359753

Publisher: Book Publishers Network, 2011

Synopsis

Food is love. Food is pleasure. Food is everything.
La Figa: Visions of Food and Form features a spectacular collection of sensual photography -- models wearing nothing but the edible creations of James Beard award-winning chef Tiberio Simone. Using the human body as his canvas, and natural fresh ingredients as his paint, Simone's elegant and tasteful nude images are the culmination of a five-year collaboration with photographer Matt Freedman. Not just a photography book, La Figa is a celebration of Simone's vision of food and touch as the basic ingredients of life -- with recipes, writing about food and sensuality, and the story of how he become the 'pleasure activist' he is today. The book makes an intriguing addition to your coffee table or a unique gift for a special someone.
- Winner: 2012 Indie Book Awards, Best Coffee Table / Photography Book
- Over 160 full color images
- 20 Recipes
- 40 Essays about food, love, and life

About this title

About the Author

Tiberio Simone
Born in Neviano, a small town in the 'boot heel' of Southern Italy, chef-author and cultural provocateur Tiberio Simone is also an award-winning food artist. After a stint as an elite paratrooper in the Italian Special Forces, love brought him to Seattle where he joined the restaurant industry. In 1995, while pastry chef at the Four Seasons Hotel, Simone won a James Beard Award for one of his signature chocolate creations. Now the owner of La Figa Catering, Simone shares his love of food and sensuality by nourishing others with his culinary delights. He is also a popular and passionate speaker about his vision of a life made full through a diet of both food and sensual touch.

Matt Freedman
Long-time Seattle resident Matt Freedman is a professional photographer and professional technologist. He combined his photography, writing, and technical talents to produce the first iPhone app about the Burning Man festival, and is now recognized as a leading expert on photographing the event. He is also the former staff photographer and director of technology for the bi-monthly magazine JUST CAUSE and has had his photographs published in the book Trekking Nepal: A Traveler's Guide and the French book, Artivisme: Art, Action Politique et Resistance Culturelle. He is now a freelance photographer, as well as a professional iPhone app developer.

Review

Freedman and Simone unite and celebrate two sensuous pleasures, two fundamental human appetites, in a way that elevates and glorifies both. You'll never look at dinner or your lover the same way again. --Dan Savage - Nationally syndicated columnist and best selling author

Food is sensual, and La Figa is a feast for the senses. We build our bodies from nature, and it is only natural that the human form bonds with forms of food to build an erotic and tasty feast! --Tom Douglas - Chef, restaurateur, and author

Food is fundamental. But for Italian artist Tiberio Simone, it's much more: It's a medium of creative expression, a sensory portal to truth, beauty, and sensuality. His La Figa: Visions of Food and Form is nothing short of a feast for the senses, celebrating two of the most primal human hungers and pleasures while elevating both through the artistic lens of a true creative visionary using the human body as his canvas and food as his paintbrush. Simone's edible masterpieces, which remained ephemeral until he collaborated with photographer Matt Freedman, spring to life from the page, extending an alluring come-hither invitation to reconnect with our own understanding of food, sexuality, and how the two feed one another. --Maria Popova - The Atlantic

Food is sensual, and La Figa is a feast for the senses. We build our bodies from nature, and it is only natural that the human form bonds with forms of food to build an erotic and tasty feast! --Tom Douglas - Chef, restaurateur, and author

Food is fundamental. But for Italian artist Tiberio Simone, it's much more: It's a medium of creative expression, a sensory portal to truth, beauty, and sensuality. His La Figa: Visions of Food and Form is nothing short of a feast for the senses, celebrating two of the most primal human hungers and pleasures while elevating both through the artistic lens of a true creative visionary using the human body as his canvas and food as his paintbrush. Simone's edible masterpieces, which remained ephemeral until he collaborated with photographer Matt Freedman, spring to life from the page, extending an alluring come-hither invitation to reconnect with our own understanding of food, sexuality, and how the two feed one another. --Maria Popova - The Atlantic

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Publishers Network
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1935359754
• ISBN 13: 9781935359753
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192