National Food Faces Day

National Food Faces Day occurs every year on April 6. The day was created in honor of Chef Rudi Sodamin’s work as a food-face artist, and also to celebrate his birthday, which happens to be on this exact same date. Chef Sodamin is the Holland America cruise line’s Master Chef, and as a way to entertain his team members, came up with the idea of making food faces. He began designing them, and eventually started taking photographs, collecting them until, years later, he went on to release his coffee table book “Food Faces.” It featured over 150 images of his edible characters, each one created from food items like vegetables, fruit, meats, fish, grains, and sweets.