<a href="https://www.instagram.com/georgemccallumbakes/" alt="George McCallum" class="on">George McCallum</a>, a food artist in the UK, was working as an art director at an advertising firm in London in 2019 when he and a friend had a baking contest between themselves. This, <a href="https://theface.com/culture/george-mccallum-food-ashtray-cake-baking-british-pub-culture">The Face</a> reports, began McCullum’s foray into food art.Recently, he’s been exploring decorating raw pork bellies with tattoo ink, such as <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CMut3lpBKUM/">this one</a> that he made for the podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crisis-dining-room/id1559460729">Crisis Dining Room</a>.

McCullum presents these tattooed works as gifts for special occasions, such as <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLNCMebBYr8/">this piece</a>&nbsp;that he inked for a friend’s birthday.

Think about the potential for this medium when professional tattoo artists start experimenting with pork bellies.

Although the images warp and fade a bit after baking, the forms still stay mostly intact and clearly visible.-via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CgdLlLnO-4H/">Gastro Obscura</a>#pork #porkbellies #tattoos #GeorgeMcCullum