Recipes for Disaster: Dinner at the Illustration Gallery - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081180299X ISBN 13: 9780811802994

Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc, 1993

Synopsis

A compilation of illustrations depicting a "recipe" for something, by artists at the Illustration Gallery, and includes recipes for a riot, squandered youth, baked apples, and chicken breasts Hawaiian

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Sommers, who runs the Illustration Gallery in New York, showing the work of illustrators only, invited more than eighty artists to provide pictorial recipes for this book. Some of the concoctions are intended to be edible, finally--some not. But, considered together, they induce the foraging instinct. Henrik Drescher's, "How to Cook," for example, begins: "Start with one right lobe full of reckless abandon," later advising, "thrust dash of mutability (inward)" and "gell throbbing ego," and concludes, "serve hot or chilled (sleep)." Like most of the contributors, he liberates food from assumption, and follows his own advice to the maximum. The book is probably more playful than any others taking on gastronomy, and for that we may be grateful. Also for Ed Koren's confession, "My Problems--A Hearty Stew," for Lisa Adams's "Protestant Pasta," and for the recipes for playdoh (Marc Rosenthal), for Elvis Presley's favorite (fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, by Isabel Samaras), for "recycled sex wax" (Robert Neubecker) and, of course, for success (Paul Meisel). With its wit, wildness and graphic excitement, the collection sets a new standard.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 081180299X
• ISBN 13: 9780811802994
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Sommers Pam