Rarities are patterned with snakes and sheet music, and come in whimsical forms like birds and busts of Christopher Columbus.
The precision with which the food is plated, the occasionally whimsical forms it takes and a given dish's ration of meat or fish to supporting players put it in the company of contemporary French, or for that matter, American cooking.
A program I started years ago has placed artistic bike racks in the shape of salmon, coffee cups, lotuses and other whimsical forms in public spaces, and the program has been repeated in various ways in other cities from New York to Nashville.
"It has a whimsical shape," he said.
Whimsical sixth-form pretensions, basically.
Chefs Fredrik Andersson, Victor Fransson and Peter Goldberg bring a minimalist aesthetic and a whimsical, free-form approach to Swedish cooking.
With the new incarnation of Mistral came a minimalist aesthetic and a whimsical, free-form approach that emphasizes vegetables, supplied by three local farms.
They are basically exercises in free-form sculptural composition, the artist working through various possibilities for the creation of whimsical and original forms inherent within the foam.
David O'Doherty Is My Name Assembly Soft-spoken Irish comic on top form with whimsical songs.
The image that generated the most vocal reactions, though, was the whimsical bar in the form of a hippopotamus, from the home of Louisa Guinness and Ben Brown.
