The trompe l’oeil – defined as ‘a visual illusion in art’ – is nothing new in the realm of food. Fanciful, surrealist food sculptures were ... with four and twenty blackbirds’, from which birds were ...

A century on from André Breton publishing his manifesto (well, the first), the Surrealist movement is very ... a fur hat that carried a sculpture of bird feathers—a nod, perhaps, to warnings ...