PLATE BECOMES COMICAL CANVAS

Whoever said you shouldn’t play with your food took eating way too seriously.

Bill and Claire Wurtzel employ the opposite approach. They’re encouraging families to make mealtime fun by creating plate art in which scrambled eggs become birds, waffles become the Eiffel Tower, and bananas become planes, giraffes and skateboarders.

Bill Wurtzel, a New York-based artist, began more than 50 years ago making healthy, artistic and hilarious breakfasts to amuse his family. That hobby translated into the pair’s first book in 2012, Funny Food: 365 Fun, Healthy, Silly, Creative Breakfasts.

In their followup book, Funny Food Made Easy, the Wurtzels expound on the inspirational breakfast art they made in Funny Food and add step-by-step photographs, nutrition tips and instructions on how to host a fun-food workshop.