Mona Lisa Latte
By Jane F ~ January 7th, 2010. Filed under: Recipes.
My youngest brother knows how much I love coffee. It’s definitely one of my major food groups. So he sent me a series of photos yesterday of what he called Mona Lisa Latte.
It took a minute to realize what I was looking at: a 20-by-13-foot likeness of da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, created on a plaza in Sydney, Australia at The Rocks Aroma Festival last August. The sculpture took a team of eight three hours to assemble and is composed of more than 3000 individual cups of coffee — with milk added to create the variations in color from dark to light.
And where there are photos of something like this, can a video not be far behind? Not much.
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Now our pals down in Oz who are reading this must wonder why it took so long to find it’s way up here. I have no explanation.
I do I think this latte-lady is hilarious, and makes a spectacular companion for the luscious tirami su that Jane T posted last Friday spectacularly disguised as a Mies van der Rohe Barcelona couch. (Photos via Philip P)
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January 7th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
THIS IS AMAZING…So interesting and now….I need to go make a pot of coffee…
xo bj
January 7th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
That’s great! You could even say that Mona has a milk mustache now…
January 8th, 2010 at 12:38 am
Just what I love best–food and art.
January 8th, 2010 at 8:17 am
I think this type of art is so interesting. Did you see the ones made of pushpins? I think they were on Sunday Morning. The only thing I don’t like about the coffee is that it will be short lived. I hate the thought of taking it apart… sad!
January 8th, 2010 at 11:18 am
My oh my oh my.
How brilliant! I love it. (although not a coffee drinker at all)
January 8th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
That’s an amazing array of café au lait!
January 8th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
This is wonderful! I went over and looked at the “couch” also. What a great combination, I say let’s get them together and have a party!
January 9th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Right there with you Rhonda. Coffee and tirami su with chocolate coating. There goes my diet.