Food Artist Unveils His Spaghetti Western



Stunning foodscape created to celebrate Blu-ray release & MGM’s 90th Anniversary


The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Re-mastered Edition is available on Blu-ray now from MGM and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

To mark the 90th Anniversary of MGM, Clint Eastwood has endorsed a food installation based on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to celebrate the new re-mastered Blu-ray release of the MGM classic.

World renowned food artist Carl Warner has produced his culinary interpretation of the classic ‘Spaghetti Western’ film trilogy, made entirely from spaghetti and other Italian ingredients.

In his film foodscape debut, Warner has brought Sergio Leone’s masterpiece The Good, The Bad and The Ugly to life using traditional Italian ingredients from pasta to pancetta, to celebrate the re-mastered Blu-ray release of the and to mark the 90th Anniversary of the studio MGM.

Warner, who was born in Liverpool, produced the foodscape in his studio down the road from Borough market, where he sourced a lot of the authentic Italian ingredients.

“Over my 25 year career this is the first time I have brought a film scene to life,” said Warner. “Having grown up with the Spaghetti Western trilogy, the imagery and music from those films are indelibly printed in my childhood memories and lent themselves so perfectly to my style that it was the perfect canvas for my film foodscape debut.”

“The term Spaghetti Western was coined because of the films’ Italian origins, and I have been inspired by Italian ingredients throughout my career, but was surprised how well they lent themselves to Sergio Leone’s stunning vistas and the central figure of The Man With No Name, portrayed so brilliantly by Clint Eastwood.”

Warner produced the foodscape following a trip to Turin, where he sourced a lot of the ingredients and found much inspiration. The iconic scene in which the mysterious figure of The Man With No Name stands among a bleak graveyard in the dessert was created using over twenty different Italian ingredients, including gnocchi, various pastas, risotto, dried herbs, parma ham, bresaola beef, parmesan, polenta, olives, Italian breads and, of course, spaghetti.

?Pasta is very much the Lego of the food world and I find these fantastic Italian ingredients really lend themselves to natural looking desert and Mediterranean landscapes,? added Warner. ?There is a real organic element to the compositional values of the food ? from pasta shells forming rocks to dried spaghetti making perfect tumbleweed, through to the swirling layers of white cooked spaghetti bringing the skies to life, partly inspired by Van Gogh?s work.?

“These films were very off the wall and really broke the mould for westerns, so this slightly surreal nature really compliments the surreal nature of my art. To bring to life this trilogy as part of my ongoing Foodscape is not only a great privilege but has been such a joy to create.”

The image took weeks of planning and was created by Carl in his Borough studio over two days.