{"id":119053,"date":"2015-01-22T17:07:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T17:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=119053"},"modified":"2015-01-22T17:07:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T17:07:54","slug":"real-food-but-not-really-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=119053","title":{"rendered":"Real Food, But Not Really"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Three films reveal insights into the glaring contrast between home-prepared foods versus foods primed by a food stylist.Through the use of food dyes, cotton-ball stuffing, imitation ice, and an array of other clever devices, these films explore the many trickeries we are ever presented with by commercial industries in our everyday lives. It\u2019s real food, but not really. Directed, filmed &amp; fdited by Minhky Le<br \/><\/h2>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=57450\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Real Food, But Not Really<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Curious Brain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three films reveal insights into the glaring contrast between home-prepared foods versus foods primed by a food stylist.Through the use of food dyes, cotton-ball stuffing, imitation ice, and an array of other clever devices, these films explore the many trickeries we are ever presented with by commercial industries in our everyday lives. It\u2019s real food, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,703,705,704],"class_list":["post-119053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-other-stuff","tag-advertising","tag-food","tag-not-real","tag-real"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":142940,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=142940","url_meta":{"origin":119053,"position":0},"title":"Whole Foods Market Forecasts the Top 10 Food and Beverage Trends for 2025","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"18\/10\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"via","rel":"","context":"In &quot;trends&quot;","block_context":{"text":"trends","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=162"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2024-10-18-at-14.57.03.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2024-10-18-at-14.57.03.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2024-10-18-at-14.57.03.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2024-10-18-at-14.57.03.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2024-10-18-at-14.57.03.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2024-10-18-at-14.57.03.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":127469,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=127469","url_meta":{"origin":119053,"position":1},"title":"MOVE","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"03\/08\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/27246366 3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage\u2026 all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement ( the video here), learning and food !! 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