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does anyone know of any available "food magic"? Like some sort of tricks I can do over dinner, with cooked stuff, or in the kitchen or such? I try not to use ITR because I'm really not good with it, and prefer impromptu style effects. Also, uncooked food, or something like it. Just so if I'm out at dinner, I can mystify while we eat.

There are some tricks with fruit, like apples (objects appear on the inside of an apple). Or a banana cuts itself.
And also some tricks with salt and pepper.
I don't know names (anybody help out here?) or those tricks but that are some ideas maybe.
And there are also tricks which involves napkins.

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Using a TT, I do a "salt transition". Poured into the left fist, the salt disappears, and travels into the right fist from which it cascades triumphantly much to everyones delight!

The salt transition as taught on the Darvin TT DVD is always well received and very entertaining too.

Just make sure that you don't tip it onto your hosts carpet and instead, make sure that when you dispose of it at the end you do so onto a plate or something similar

Thanks, I've never really used a TT. I have one from about 12 years ago, that got little use. Is this really a useful tool for close-up or impromptu style magic? And are there books out there that can help me improve my technique? How many rely on TTs as a crucial part of their act?

if anyone knows where I can learn some of those fruit tricks, I would appreciate the info.

and thanks to the mod who moved my post into the appropriate forum. I guess I didn't really read the description before posting in the other section.

A few ideas:

Torn and restored napkin
spoon bending (fake/illusion)
pepper mill through table
levitating bread roll

These are taught in most magic books/courses I think. If I remember correctly, they're all in "Magic for Dummies" which is sold in some standard bookshops, and is worth a read (not just for dummies) http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 33-9693440
There's quite a few appropriate tricks in there.

There's a couple of effects with linking polo mints here: http://www.magictricks.co.uk/prodshow.asp?code=214 (plus an ungimmicked version somewhere if that's your kind of thing) , and I'm sure I remember seeing something about linking pretzels somewhere.

There's a few things you can do with toothpicks, and matches if you do a google, and you can always try vanishing small objects and stuff.

I do a good version of the disappearing pizza. It's very visual, and takes about 15 minutes including the final phase of licking the plate

bending spoons and forks would probably be best as suggested. A great DVD that teaches some of this would be Morgan Streblers Liquid Metal which goes into good detail on how to bend forks. Its just visually stunning to watch, especially when he starts to bend the actual spokes on the fork Perhaps another thing i use at the dinner table would be slush powder. This is great stuff and comes quite cheap. i remember this one time when i used it in pizza hut and complained it was to cold and pretened to 'freeze' my drink, i got great reactions from that.