Making art like soup

As a child, like most children, I refused to eat cauliflower. It was weird. Vegetables weren't meant to be white. I doubt that I was unique, especially given that my roommate still doesn't eat cauliflower.

In the last few years I have learned to like a lot of edible things including cauliflower. Especially cauliflower soup. So when the man-friend got a couple heads of cauliflower I determined I would make some soup.

On epicurious.com I found a recipe for cauliflower soup with cumin and lime. Interesting enough as it is, but there was one additional hook. The cauliflower was purple.

I'm not sure if this head of cauliflower is like the varicolored carnations you see, in which the carnations are just put in a solution of dye and change colors or if there is a natural variety of cauliflower that happens to be purple. There are purple carrots and potatoes so I guess it is possible.

The long and short of this metaphor is that my soup turned out bright purple.



I think that purple soup might entice a number of people to try cauliflower. It was quite exciting. And if you trick someone to eat something that actually is a mild vegetable that is just a little off-putting on one level is that a bad thing?

Food is something enjoyed on many different sensory levels; taste, texture, smell, and look. Art is enjoyed in the same ways.

Why not camouflage serious art with a little color to introduce people who are scared to it? Kind of like the gateway drug that high school musicals and Broadway in Chicago does for theater?