May Program Meeting: Jim Johnston

For our monthly program meeting we were fortunate enough to have a real food artist.

Chef Jim Johnston gave a program on FOOD ART at a meeting of Ouachita Artists on Monday, May 20. Johnston and his wife Diane demonstrated how to use fruits and vegetables into an assortment of decorations for special food occasions. He turned squash and eggplant into birds, melons into carvings and fruits into flowers using only a paring knife. After an extensive career as a chef in this country and in Europe, Johnston chose to retire in Montgomery County. He still works, however, and commutes to his job as Food Director at the Atrium Retirement Center on Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs.