Can food be art?

Issues

There is no doubt that food ingredients can be used to create art. We can carve sculptures with carrots, and draw pictures on cappuccino foam. But can food in itself be a special form of art? What is art anyway? Is there anything distinctive about how food might function as art?

Required readings

Telfer, E. (1996). Food as art. In Food for thought: Philosophy and food (pp. 41-60). London: Routledge. (Also collected in: Arguing about art: contemporary philosophical debates) hkulib:b2588923
Ch. 7 of Nigel Warburton Philosophy : the basics.