6 Artist's Recipes to Cook at Home
Photograph: Taschen
While at home this next month, might as well take advantage and try to cook a fun and interesting recipe from one of your favorite artists, like Dali’s avocado toast or Frida Kahlo’s Strawberry Atole. Art history shows that artists have always been interested in food. As Olafur Eliasson once said, “Cooking, like art, is both reactive and creative.” Below are a few recipes from modern and contemporary artists. Bon Appetit!
Frida Khalo’s Strawberry Atole
1 ¼ cups of masa harina
6 cups of water
2 cups strawberries
¾ cups brown sugar
Marcel Duchamp’s Steak Tartare
2 eggs
chopped raw white onion
bright green capers
curled slivers of anchovy
fresh parsley, chopped fine
black olives minutely chopped in company with yellow celery leaves
Salvador Dalí’s Avocado Toast & Casanova Cocktail
3 avocados
1 lamb brain
9 oz. minced almonds
12 slices of rye bread
3 tbsp. Tequila
⅓ cup vinegar
½ cube of beef bouillon
salt
cayenne pepper
Claude Monet’s Chestnut Cookies
½ cup unsalted butter
1 cup unsweetened chestnut purée
¾ sugar
3 eggs, separated
Louise Bourgeois’s French Cucumber Salad
6 cucumbers, peeled
6 tbsp. olive oil
2 ½ tbsp. tarragon vinegar
½ tsp. Tarragon
Salt
Pepper
chopped chives or green scallions
Ed Ruscha’s Cactus Omelette
2 eggs
2 tbsp. small curd cottage cheese
2 tbsp. diced celery
3 tbsp. diced cactus (nopalitos, commonly found in a grocer’s international section)
1 tbsp. sweet butter
salt
pepper