Le Corbuffet
Le Corbuffet: Edible Art and Design Classics
Esther Choi
Prestel, October 2019
Hardcover | 8 x 11 inches | 256 pages | 60 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-3791384726 | $40.00
Publisher Description:
It started as a series of dinner parties that Esther Choi?artist, architectural historian, and self-taught cook?hosted for friends after she stumbled across an elaborate menu crafted for Walter Gropius in 1937. Combining a curiosity about art and design with a deeply felt love of cooking, Choi has assembled a playful collection of recipes that are sure to spark conversation over the dinner table. Featuring Choi?s own spectacular photography, these sixty recipes riff off famous artists or architects and the works they are known for. Try Quiche Haring with the Frida Kale-o Salad, or the Robert Rauschenburger followed by Flan Flavin. This cookbook is strikingly beautiful and provocative as it blurs the boundaries between art and everyday life and celebrates food in an engaging and imaginative way.dDAB Commentary: As I'm tapping these words into my phone, I'm hungry ? very hungry. Depending on one's point of view, a state of hunger may be the best or worst time to read a cookbook (I fall into the latter camp, reflected in the way I try not to go to the grocery store with an empty stomach). But this is no ordinary cookbook. The recipes and creations expressed respectively in words and well-staged photos were inspired by artists and designers, something the book's title, Le Corb...
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