Eat London - Literally!

[Maggot]

As you read this 14 different community groups are busy preparing models of central London made entirely of food.

For example: B2: The Coriander Club from spitalfields are making the following:
Buckingham Palace: built with blocks of Indian sweets called misti with a jellabis balcony.
Westminster Abbey: ornate chapatti and bindi (okra in batter) architecture and a circular onion ring window.
Nelson's Column: a tower of aloo chop (potato cakes), topped with jelly.

And Mulberry Girls School are making:
Tate Modern: sticky flapjack bricks with icing on top.
The Globe Theatre: coleslaw and cheese sandwiches in brown bread, cemented with cheese spread, with a crusty roof topped with dates.

The are going to all be displayed on a 60 square metre map in Trafalgar Square this Saturday (28th). And afterwards it will be dished up for us to all eat!

I love this City.

http://www.liftfest.org.uk/festivalsandevents/current_events/eat_london/

[braindancer]

This looks brilliant...

My friend has been working her arse off for months organising this but alas I cannot go.

However.

You lot all should!

:)

[Crispy]

We made manhatten out of biscuits & cakes for a New Yorker friend of ours' birthday at uni.

[gaijingirl]

I made a biscuit-henge wedding cake for my friends' wedding which was subsequently featured on nicecupofteaandasitdown.com

:)

[Maggot]

Bump, cos it's tomorrow.


12.30 in Trafalgar Square.

[marts]

They're laying this out at our site right now in preparation. looks great and they all look like they're having fun doing it. :)

[Maggot]

Bump cos it's today.

I'm surprised people aren't more excited about this.

[beeboo]

I'm excited :D

*prepares knife and fork*

[Guineveretoo]

I am so excited, I even told my daughter and her boyfriend about it when they got in last night!

[snowy_again]

Lots of people and big queues for the food, but trying to resist that temptation of just reaching over and grabbing a bit of Marble Arch was a little too hard.

Think I've got some photos on my phone that I'll pop up later once I re-remember how to do pictures

[beeboo]

Arrived too late to get a look at it, but did get a few mouthfuls of St Pauls, a bit of Greenwich and some girls gave us their slice of the National Gallery cos they'd eaten too much of the Tate :D

[scanner]

Why all that bongo music though? Underneath the Arches, Lambeth Walk, Streets of London, Let's All Go Down The Strand etc would have been more appropriate, it was in London not Africa.

[Maggot]

Lots of people and big queues for the food, but trying to resist that temptation of just reaching over and grabbing a bit of Marble Arch was a little too hard.
The queues weren't that bad. I managed to eat some of Tate Modern, Millbank Tower, The Gherkin, the Barbican (which was really delicious) and various other unidentified buildings. I was absolutely stuffed, and couldn't eat anything at Foamy's picnic!

It was pretty amazing, respect to all the people who must have worked really hard to prepare this.

What I couldn't believe was the number of people in Trafalgar square who were eating McDonalds when surrounded by beautiful, delicious, free food.