For Fashion Week, Five Foods Just as Hard to Eat as Those Clothes are to Wear

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Abacus
It's Fashion Week, which means lots of impractical clothes clothes on impractically shaped people.

But designers aren't alone in their ability to turn something as functional as clothes into high art. Chefs often do the same with food, as demonstrated by the above dish -- a salad from Abacus -- and the four that follow.

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Craft
This amuse bouche from Craft. Or, for most of the models participating in Fashion Week: dinner.

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Matt McCallister
Chef Matt McCallister, soon of Oak Cliff's Campo built this garden, which we imagine tastes as fabulous as it looks.

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Tei An Uni
Tea An's sea urchin. How are ya', little fella?

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Sergei Arola
This little rum ball is a creation from Chef Sergei Arola in Spain, who dabbles in molecular gastronomy. Could you tell?

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mynameisURL
mynameisURL

Hah!

And they laughed at me when I asked to see their "amuse bouches" at Jack-In-The-Box.

Miss Macy
Miss Macy

Personally, I'd rather have a cheeseburger.

Matthew
Matthew

that sea urchin looks like it'd hurt going down (and coming back out)

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