The photographer Dwight Eschliman was never a health nut himself, but he was raised by one; his mom kept her kids away from meat, dairy, or any kind of processed food. When Eschilman went away to college, he loosened up a bit, allowing himself to indulge in all sorts of previously forbidden treats, but by the time he had kids of his own, he found a renewed appreciation for simple, healthy food—and a renewed skepticism of chemical-filled, preservative-laden snacks. He’d also developed a love of disassembling objects and photographing their component parts.
“Thus, this project,” he writes in his photography book 37 or so Ingredients. “It’s the product of a kid that was raised to be suspicious of foods that weren’t assembled in mom’s kitchen, and bordering on obsessive compulsive.”
Check out his photographs of a Twinkie deconstructed into its basic components and ask yourself if you will ever eat the golden cream filled sponge cake tube again?
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For more information, see http://www.twinkiedeconstructed.com, which is about the book of the same name.
So food is made up of many components. Does this surprise anyone? These photographs will do nothing to deter me from eating twinkies on my next road trip.