What Your Plate of Food Says About You

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Thanksgiving is coming, which means that it’s time to silently judge friends and relatives at the dinner table. Behavioral food scientist, Juliet Boghossian, and Cosmo have provided a fun little way to gauge your table-mate’s personality by how they plate their food.

Do they give equal space to each food item? Then that person is a disciplined pre-planner who doesn’t take on more than they can handle. Piling all of the food into a bowl, is the work of a tireless creative seeking to be unique.

How do you plate? Just, so we can judge.

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Free-spirited multitasker / Amanda K. Behrens
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A tireless creative / Amanda K. Behrens

 

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A multitasking, traditional conformist / Amanda K. Behrens
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Impulsive / Amanda K. Behrens

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The Plate Project, Dinner Plates From The Future

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Gardens vs. Factories by Jono Pandolfi

Food & Wine recently created The Plate Project — where they asked a few notable folks from the food industry what a dinner plate might look like 35 years from now. And, rather than having to listen to a few foodies pontificate about the current state of food and its apparently doomed future — F&W had them instead get all artsy and actually create a plate.

The Plate Project, unsurprisingly, becomes a display of the bleak future of food and agriculture — with heavy emphasis on the role of pharmaceuticals and science. Also of note is a plate by culinary instructor Dave Arnold, who just went ahead and deep-fried a plate — perhaps summing up perfectly the inevitable progression from our current eating habits. Check them all out here.

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Fried Plate by Dave Arnold
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Food of The Future For The 1% by Anthony Bourdain
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Pharm To Table by AvroKo

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