Enter The Wonderfully Weird World Of Celeste Byers, Digital Food Artist

We are always on the lookout for quality food artwork here at Food Republic. Enter Celeste Byers, a self-described "avid ocean worshipper, dream recaller and nature enthusiast" whose works have been featured in various magazines and The New York Times. Celeste recently created a series of illustrations by hand – which are then digitized – for a book about Cook's Garden, which supplies Los Angeles restaurants with fresh herbs, fruit, vegetables and eggs. Here are some of our favorites below.

The rare apple cucumber, pictured on the bottom in the three stages in which the artist ate it. [/caption]
An illustration to accompany a story about an LA woman wanting to eat from a garden to stay thin.[/caption]

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