These “mad geniuses of cuisine” in Chicago, led by chef Homaru Cantu, are inventing some interesting stuff including new cutlery-type mechanisms for eating, futuristic cooking methods, and yes - paper food!

In brief, from Ananova:

Chef creates paper meals

A chef has created a computer that prints paper meals.

Homaru Cantu’s invention uses ink made of liquidised food to print a picture snack on low-calorie edible paper.

The meals on soya bean and potato paper could help office workers satisfy food cravings without piling on the pounds.

Homaru has already started printing edible menus at his restaurant Moto in Chicago reports The Sun.

Diners can rip up the menu and toss it in their soup or have the sheets baked or fried.

Homaru adapted an ink-jet printer with computer specialists from local firm Deep Labs.

They first experimented with ink made of crushed carrots, tomatoes and purple potatoes.

Now they are working to get the flavours just right and are applying for a patent.

Homaru said: “You can make an ink-jet printer do just about anything. Just imagine going through a magazine and looking at an ad for pizza. You wonder what it tastes like so you rip a page out and eat it.”

And a NYT article.

I’m thinking you could serve this up origami-style in shapes of what the flavours are. Like an origami chicken that is chicken! How fun, but still quite bizarre and somewhat unappetizing.

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