your favorite 'Plating' references?

[rotuts]

Plating comes up here often.

what are your favorite Plating references: books? Web sites? Videos? etc

I came up with this Gem that I was not aware of :

http://forums.egullet.org/topic/63947-plating-and-presentation/

Edited September 7, 2013 by rotuts (log)

[Twyst]

Art Culinaire and new restaurant cookbooks for print stuff, but mostly just from eating at a lot of places and taking inspiration from different bits and pieces to create your own style.

Edited September 7, 2013 by Twyst (log)

[Bojana]

Eleven Madison park for me lately

[rotuts]

yes, 11MP is a beautiful book.

[Baselerd]

I've gotten a lot of inspiration from some of the high-end restaurant cookbooks (Eleven Madison Park, Momofuku, Uchi Cookbook, Noma, etc...). After reading through a lot of these books it's become very apparent that there is an optimal way of putting things on the plate to where they can "hold up" (for lack of better words). I.e. place your ice cream scoop on top of a crumble to prevent it from melting quickly, etc. But I think a lot of the plating concepts (speaking as a non-professional) come from a more fundamental idea of visual design (symmetry / color / odd numbers / etc).

There used to be this awesome series of features on Gilt taste called the art of plating where some very avant garde chefs described their mental process in detail, but I think it's been taken down since. The videos (link) are still up on Vimeo though.

[rotuts]

now That was the sort of thing i was hoping to find!

many thanks

Baselerd