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Food: Divine dishes inspired by art

Artists through history have lovingly rendered food into art: a slab of cake bathed in golden light, plump fruit, mackerel glistening on the table. Here Fiona Hugues pays them homage by doing the opposite

- Recipes and styling by Fiona Hugues. Photograph­y by Jani Shepherd. Gatherum Collectif.

As a rather opinionate­d and passionate stylist I’m forever harping on about the crossover between fashion and interiors, art and food. I find it fascinatin­g how our culture constantly feeds into and inspires the work of creatives working in a host of mediums. For fun, I’ve based this collection of seasonal recipes on depictions of food in art – from 19th-century still lifes of fruit and fish to Andy Warhol’s comment on modern consumeris­m using cans of Campbell’s soup.

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