A Painter's Kitchen-Revised Edition: Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia O'Keeffe (Red Crane Cookbook Series) - Softcover

Wood, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878610619 ISBN 13: 9781878610614

Publisher: Red Crane Books, 1997

Synopsis

Georgia O'Keeffe, well known for her striking paintings of the Southwest, carried her creativity into the kitchen, where she took great pride in her healthy culinary style. The meals served in her household focused on homegrown and natural foods. They were always tasty, nutritious, modest, and beautifully prepared.

A Painter's Kitchen is Margaret Wood's recollection of seventy recipes from Georgia O'Keeffe's kitchen. As Miss O'Keeffe's companion for five years, Wood's responsibilities included, among other things, preparing many of the meals. O'Keeffe directed Miss Wood in the preparation of simple, delicious food using many fresh ingredients and insisted that Wood pay scrupulous attention to every step of food production and preparation. Besides containing recipes from Miss O'Keeffe's kitchen, the book describes in charming detail Miss O'Keeffe's outlook on food, philosophy, life, art, and the world, while maintaining respect for the artist's well-known desire for privacy.

Margaret Wood left Miss O'Keeffe's employ in 1982. She was a production weaver for Kozikowski Tapestry Weavers and since 1988 has been a speech/language pathologist.

"Lavishly sprinkled with black-and-white photographs of the artist as well as full-color food photos, "A Painter's Kitchen" is a feast for the eyes as well as the mind and stomach."-Mail Order Gourmet

"More than just a cookbook, this text describes O'Keeffe's outlook on life and art in 128 pages."-Southwest Art

"Here is a way of cooking and eating serene in accumulated wisdom (Miss O'Keeffe was in her nineties at the time the author knew her) and rich in undiminished sensual delight."-Cook Book

Sample Recipe:
During the 1960s and 1970s, many prominent magazines featured interviews with Georgia O'Keeffe, along with photographs of both her houses. During supper one evening she recalled the occasion when a female staff member from one of the magazines had come to the Abiquiu house and was straightening everything up so meticulously that it no longer looked like the painter's house. At one point, when the woman was making every curtain pleat perfect, Miss O'Keeffe could not resist saying to her,

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About the Author

Margaret Wood is the author of Remembering Miss O'Keeffe: Stories from Abiquiu (Museum of New Mexico Press). She is a speech-language pathologist and makes her home in Santa Fe.

Review

Eclectic, personal and laced with revealing memories, this slender book humanizes the artist without diminishing her mystique. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune

This third printing of the popular title sports a new cover, new recipes, and new color food photos, and will appeal to new audiences who don't already have prior editions. Photos compliment Wood's descriptions of painter Georgia O'Keeffe's life, works, and meals. Recipes are very simple creations. -- Midwest Book Review

This would be a good book for a beginning cook as they probably could make every recipe without much trouble. Good basic healthy food with straightforward directions. The variety is surprising, from vegetables to enchiladas, bread, main courses and desserts. The focus on healthy eating is welcome. How many purslane recipes do you have. Any fan of O'Keeffe will be delighted with the peeps into her private life at an advanced age. Margaret Wood shows a great deal of respect for her former employer, with the telling of bits and pieces of their interaction. This is an excellent cookbook at a reasonable price to add to any food lovers kitchen. -- From Independent Publisher

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Crane Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1878610619
• ISBN 13: 9781878610614
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 109