Cuisine of the Creative - Hardcover

Lambeth, James; James, Miles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0960167838 ISBN 13: 9780960167838

Publisher: Miami Dog Pr, 1998

Essentially, "Cuisine of the Creative" is a 232-page book with beautiful color photos of more than 140 recipes and works of art. For the cover of the book, a gorgeous plate of pale yellow-hued stone-crab pasta is arranged in front of a painting by James Rosenquist. Painting by James Rosenquist, 1989, 5x5, Oil on canvas, James Rosenquist/Licensed by VAGA, New York, N.Y.

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From the Publisher:

James Lambeth's aim was to include recipes taken directly from artists that both he and Miles James admire and most respect. AUTHOR COMMENT: The collaborative effort was a way for James Lambeth to get to know his new son-in-law, Miles James.

Review:

If you think of food as the ingredients of an art and cooking as a creative pursuit, this book will be like an hors d'oeuvre for you. If you believe the popular saying, "We are what we eat," it will provide you with insight into the creativity of artists like Salvador Dali and Isamu Noguchi, architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, and chefs like Wolfgang Puck. This is a beautiful and elegant book. It is easy to get lost amidst its large, glossy pages and experience the photographs of art, architecture, and cuisine arranged amidst both as a feast for the senses. However, there is also text: an inspirational quotation and skeletal chronological biography for each person, followed by one or more recipes. Some of the recipes (Tarator or Summer Soup and Mad Max's Grilled Rainbow Trout) are both simple and good. The chefs' selections tend to be lengthier and more complicated. Meanwhile some, like Spaghetti al Pesto, prepared without olive oil, and Summer Pudding, which gives no hint of the size of the pudding dish or the amount of fruit required, are suspicious. But then would anyone really take a book that looks like this into the kitchen? -- From Independent Publisher

Nominated as "BEST COOKBOOK; GENERAL CATAGORY" by the James Beard Foundation, 1999, NY, NY -- The James Beard Foundation

Won "BEST GRAPHICS AWARD" from the American Printers Association -- The American Printers Association

Won "BEST PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD" in World Cookbook Competition, Versailles, France, 2000 -- InternationalCookbook Review

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