A satsuma Sistine Chapel – and other strange edible art

For a nation on a Bake Off sugar high, a new contest to find the best food art is a delicious diversion – but it will never feed the soul like the real thing

Britain loves baking. A nation was glued to its screens to see Nadiya Hussain win The Great British Bakeoff recently, as if a TV cookery show actually mattered.

Me too. In fact, I am so down with the Great British Bake Off that I agreed to be a judge in an art homage to it, called Edible Masterpieces. The Art Fund contest challenges art- and food-lovers to create culinary tributes to artworks. It’s very much an attempt to grab some of that Mary Berry cool for art – my fellow judges this week included 2013 Bake Off winner Frances Quinn, though we gave first prize to just about the only entry that was not a bake.

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