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Photographer Henry Hargreaves tastes the rainbow - by creating edible multi-colored versions of classic dishes. The former fashion model used food coloring from across the spectrum to dye hamburgers, spaghetti and pancakes. The 33-year-old dreamed up the series to 'play with the public perception of food'.
He said: 'I'm interested in using food to tell a story. People's food choices and habits tell so much about someone. 'We interact with it several times a day but seldom take it out of the 'get in my belly' context.
'I just hope it makes people a little more aware of the way we have been conditioned to act about the way we perceive food.' The project was sparked by an article about a mother whose son was not interested in eating food - until she used bright colors to entice him.
Henry and stylist Lisa Edslav set about experimenting with different foods that would take on different colors. The best burger patty was white turkey meat as it would take on the yellow and blue colors.
The colorful pasta was made using standard supermarket spaghetti dipped in coloring.
Henry, from Brooklyn, New York, left one 'real' element in each dish - such as the buns on the burger, the butter on the pancakes and the cone in the ice cream.
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