“Jell-O by the Sea” by home cook Kate Fulbright
Three (m)old friends — Kate Medley, Emily Wallace & Kate Elia of North Carolina — have a long-standing relationship with Jell-O and its molds. So, they recently got folks together to create gelatin masterpieces for “O Moldy Night,” their pop-up museum celebrating molded food.
As for the three of us, our relationship with molds began with the campy — ’70s recipes and good “mold-fashioned” wordplay: A birthday cake with the slogan “I’m old” started our endeavour. But our obsession with the molded eventually expanded to reflect our combined careers in art and food. We wondered about the rise and demise of shaped and gelatinous foods and became enamored by their aesthetics. So, what began as a years-long joke to elevate aspic to a pedestal eventually solidified (as gelatin is wont to do) into a pop-up museum project deemed “O Moldy Night,” which displayed the works of some 40 chefs, home cooks, grandmas, and artists at The Durham Hotel in our North Carolina town. Materials ranged from tomatoes and carrots to pig’s feet, chicken tenders, and crushed pineapple.
Take a gander at some of the other creations over at The Bitter Southerner.
Previously: The Mid-Century Supper Club revives kooky recipes of yore
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