MINNEAPOLIS (AP)-- Dairy Queen now owns the world record for the largest fruit sculpture ever after hiring an artist to build a 10-foot-tall tree. The restaurant chain sponsored the fruit sculpture in ...

A cold yet brightly lit kitchen is the training ground for Fayetteville's Fruit Carving Ninja. Patrick O'Brien, dressed in a white chef jacket, is armed with various knives and scalpels. He's ready to ...

The art of fruit and vegetable carving is said to have originated in Thailand over 700 years ago. Ruben Arroco learned to carve during his training as a hotel chef in the Philippines. “There is a ...

FLINT, MI -- A baby shower helped birth Ernest Lamar’s skills of creatively cutting and carving fruit into a business. Lamar, 27, started the business Ernie Fruits in 2018 after his sister requested ...

When Tariq Farid began franchising his Wallingford-based fresh fruit sculpting company Edible Arrangements in 2001, his goal was to open about 35 stores in five years. To say the 40-year-old life long ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --The iconic "Spoonbridge and Cherry" sculpture is losing its famous fruit for a few months as it heads to New York for a touch up by a specialized painter. On Tuesday, a team of ...

Among the more eye-catching attractions at the SculptureCenter Annual Benefit Gala, held last night in the Edison Ballroom, was a six-foot-tall skewer of fruit stacked on top of each other, a pile of ...

Five years ago on a vacation in Cancun, chef Vladimir Smirnov came face to face with his first carved fruit - and if it didn't rock his world, it did give it a modest jolt. He was in the buffet line ...

Ruben Arroco’s career began with a culinary apprenticeship at the Tradewinds Hotel Manila in the Philippine. The tradition of highly intricate fruit and vegetable carving is most often found in Asian ...

Sculptor Cindy Wynn with her pet rooster, Delores, at her Stock Island studio. A couple weeks ago during Art Basel, the news was all about fruit as art — specifically a banana duct-taped to the wall ...