Certain genre based shows are tough to present in an original way… but we think that Food Party on IFC does just that. Its 1 part entertaining, 1 part informative and 1 part theater of the absurd. Its just the delicious recipe for our “refined” Buzz Pirate palette.

Brooklyn-based artist Thu Tran’s show is far from your average cooking show. Food Party combines the culinary arts with puppetry (living cuisine puppets, specifically) and cardboard sets that look more like art installations.

Here’s what the New York Times had to say:

“In her surreal excursions on “Food Party” (whose earliest episodes appear online at foodparty.tv), Ms. Tran can be seen enjoying a romantic dinner with a mustachioed French baguette that smokes cigarettes and wears sunglasses; cooking with kitchenware delivered to her by toy helicopters; and breaking into song as she picks doughnuts from a doughnut tree.” (A Foodie With a Taste for the Surreal)

To see just how surreal this gets, check out the video on IFC.com…

And check out the Green Screen Cookies segment below: