Sampler Platter: Corpse bread, balloon eggs & vegetable mermaids

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It’s the ‘play with your food’ edition of Sampler Platter, dishing out amazing food art links.

• Fourth of July fireworks done with food. PESFilms
• 28-year-old Thai art student Kittiwat Unarrom makes eerily realistic mutilated body parts out of dough and other ingredients. Bangkok Day Tours
• Adorable balloons shaped like hot dogs, fried eggs and other food. David Sykes
• A whole bunch of bento box goodies, including a woman wearing an avocado face mask. Toxel
• A Tim Burton-esque mermaid made out of bok choy, an eggplant narwahl, a green onion praying mantis and other vegetable-based food art. Edith Zimmerman

--Elina Shatkin