Fig. 1

a High-end asymmetrical plating from the modernist restaurant. The sort of image that you might well see on Instagram’s ‘The art of plating’. b The hospital version. The chef in the latter case presumably hasn’t heard about the research sponsored by Tilda rice suggesting that the ratio between the rice and the meat should conform to the Golden Ratio. (Deroy, O., & Spence, C. (2014). Can you find the golden ratio in your plate? Flavour, 3:5)