Guilty Comfort Foods: Eliza's Secrets
Author: Lisa Bick
Interspersing family recipes with recollections from her childhood, nostalgic photographs, and musings about her grandmother's life, the author shares family culinary secrets that elevate cooking to a spiritual pursuit. From tasty puddings and cinnamon rolls to shoo-fly pie and delectable cakes, these 28 recipes for down-home desserts involve simple ingredients and offer easy-to-follow instructions. Both culinary artists and visual artists will appreciate how this celebration of Americana uses food to explore family history.
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Yours in Food
Author: John Baldessari
In John Baldessari's new book, Yours in Food, the founding member of the conceptual art movement explores America at the table, savoring the nuances of breaking bread in carefully composed vignettes culled appropriated video and film.Reflections on food and eating specially commissioned from a smorgasbord of contemporary writers on culture and the arts, from novelist David Eggers to musician David Byrne, offer up the perfect accompaniment to Baldessari's work. Paired with his images, these humorous, insightful, and, in some cases, bizarre meditations investigate one of the most fundamental and telling of all human experiences. A visual and intellectual feast, Yours in Food is sure to entertain and delight readers of fiction, art history, and cultural criticism and all lovers of food. A Blind Spot Book published by Princeton Architectural Press.
Author Biography: John Baldessari is one of the most influential American artists to emerge since the mid-1960s. His droll and ironic composite photocollages, installations, and videotapes have shed new light on the nature of perception, meaning, and interpretation.
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