MOORHEAD — We’ve seen it happen a hundred times. A meal is brought to a restaurant table and, before lifting a fork or spoon, the customer lifts a cellphone, takes a picture and posts it to Instagram.

The image is arresting: prosciutto, pink meat lined with creamy fat, spread flat on a circular white plate; on top, thin slices of horned melon, its seeds splayed out like a star; a sprinkle of ...

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This is Ode To..., a weekly column where we share the stuff we're really into in hopes that you'll be really into it, too. The Art of Plating Instagram will make you fall in love with tweezer food ...

Why does it matter? Plating food is part science, part art, part intuition. “There are a lot of key factors,” says Timothy Harris, “and the plating, overall, incorporates the whole thing. You look at ...

When it comes to culinary artistry, the way a dish is presented can be just as significant as how it tastes. They say we eat with our eyes first. The artistic procedures of food plating and ...

Plating food matters. I wish I knew this as a kid, but at least I get to consider it when feeding my own. My parents, most of my aunts and my grandma didn’t get the memo about plating food. Collard ...