Tangerine Honeycomb

New Year's Resolution #4:
More scrumptious photos (that are in focus!)

While I am not a professional photographer, I do in fact, have my Master's in Sculpture. As many of you know, that is actually how this all began. When I was finishing my third year of graduate school (seven years of art school in total), I began to play with chocolate as if it were another artistic material. No, I didn't actually sculpt with it, but I was experimenting with flavor from the perspective of an artist.

About half-way through my grad program, I picked up beeswax and honey as a conceptual and symbolic material and began to emphasize my work around my fascination with molding and melting the two. Compounded with the fact that I've always been a foodie and dessert whore, by the time I reached my thesis exhibition I had picked up chocolate as a canvas for my creations, though this time strictly for the mouth. I had even planned a closing reception for my show so I would have time to cater it all myself! That was the beginning of Eclipse!

Now while I can hack together some photography, my digital camera is really just a glamorized point-and-shoot. Luckily, seven years of schooling had given me a great sense of composition. So while many of my posts look pretty good, they are often plagued with lousy lighting and focus problems. No more, I say! And this post is the first of my newly focused sense of determination. I hope its the first of many more titillating food pics.

And what better place to start? Tangerine Honeycomb, while an art-piece for the mouth, is a pleasant culinary exercise in my first artistic love: all things bee-kind. Made from a burnt-sugar base infused with golden honey, this confection froths up as we pour it into confectionery frames to set. The result is a deep honey flavor with a crisp and airy texture. It is finished with a coating of 72% dark chocolate infused with a hint of tangerine, and topped with bee pollen. It's pretty unique and striking in this photo, if I do say so myself. It's available in the Asian Take-out boxes for $8 a quarter pound. And since it contains no dairy, it's vegan!