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Peachy Keen
Peachy Keen
Catersource
June 17, 2024
3 Min Read
French macarons | D’Amico Catering Photo courtesy Bellagala Photography
Subtly sensual, Peach Fuzz (the 2024 Pantone Color of the Year) is a heartfelt hue bringing a feeling of kindness and tenderness, communicating a message of caring and sharing, community and collaboration. An appealing peach hue softly nestled between pink and orange, Peach Fuzz inspires belonging, recalibration, and an opportunity for nurturing, conjuring up an air of calm. The color offers us a space to flourish from, a space to be, feel, and heal.
“In seeking a hue that echoes our innate yearning for closeness and connection, we chose a color radiant with warmth and modern elegance. A shade that resonates with compassion, offers a tactile embrace, and effortlessly bridges the youthful with the timeless,” says Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director, Pantone Color Institute™.
Peach Fuzz is a nurturing peach tone that inspires us to instinctively want to reach out and touch. Conveying a message of tactility that comes through in sueded, velvety, quilted, and furry textures, luxuriously soothing and soft to the touch, Peach Fuzz is an enveloping peach hue that awakens our senses to the comforting presence of tactility and cocooned warmth.
Flip thru the next few pages for some inspiration to help you incorporate Peach Fuzz into your next event. —Amber Kispert
Cake | Lynne Reznick Photography | Photo courtesy Lynne Reznick Photography
Strawberry Cheesecake Cones | D’Amico Catering | Photo courtesy Bellagala Photography
Bar display | Bella Notte | Photo courtesy Lisa Boggs Photography
Menu | Timeless Event Planning | Photo courtesy Christine Sargologos
Placecard display | Karena Dixon Photography | Photo courtesy Karena Dixon Photography
Bar | Lynne Reznick Photography | Photo courtesy Lynne Reznick Photography
Tips for Incorporating Peach Fuzz
Kathleen Schaffer (SCHAFFER) shares several ways to showcase a signature color, such as Peach Fuzz, in the food and beverage of your event.
One of the easiest ways to bring Peach Fuzz into your event is through peach cocktails, such as bellinis or mojitos.
The best way to add color to food and drinks is through nature. Identify a color and flavor profile based on it occurring naturally and then create cocktails and hors d’oeuvres that highlight a specific color. For example:
- Make Peach Fuzz Colored-Pasta: You can create this color using tomato juice, saffron, carrot, semolina flour, and beet juice. If you start with white flour and add egg yolks, your color will be yellow as a base. You need to add pink tones to bring the peach color forward. Adding beet juice diluted with water will impart a fuchsia hue, but beets also have blue undertones that need to be balanced with orange tones to neutralize it. Carrot juice or dehydrated carrot powder should do the trick.
- Make a Peach Fuzz-Colored Sauce: Make a creamy tomato broth for under the pasta, and add clear tomato water, beet and carrot juice, and soy lecithin mixture. Siphon to create a perfect foam; the aeration of the foam will lighten the color to the correct Peach Fuzz tone.
Match a desired color through a tool that outlines the exact powered, all-natural food coloring needed to achieve any Pantone shade.
Individual charcuterie plates | Wildy Connected Photography | Photo courtesy Wildy Connected Photography
Tomato, Red Pepper, Shallot, and Jalapeño chilled soup (with optional vodka) | D’Amico Catering | Photo courtesy Bellagala Photography
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Tablesetting | LOLA Event Productions | Photo courtesy Amanda Megan Miller Photography
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