Le Corbuffet: Edible Art and Design Classics

by Esther Choi

Nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award for Photography in 2020. New York Magazine's Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books of 2019 The New York Times Style Magazine's Pick in the Editors' Roundup One of The Architect's Newspaper's Fall Must-Reads 
Home-cooking meets highbrow art in this one-of-a-kind cookbook that uses food to create edible interpretations of modern and contemporary sculptures, paintings, architecture, and design.

It started as a series of dinner parties that Esther Choi--artist, architectural historian, and self-taught cook--hosted for friends after she stumbled across an elaborate menu crafted for Walter Gropius in 1937. Combining a curiosity about art and design with a deeply felt love of cooking, Choi has assembled a playful collection of recipes that are sure to spark conversation over the dinner table. Featuring Choi's own spectacular photography, these sixty recipes riff off famous artists or architects and the works they are known for. Try Quiche Haring with the Frida Kale-o Salad, or the Robert Rauschenburger followed by Flan Flavin. This cookbook is strikingly beautiful and provocative as it blurs the boundaries between art and everyday life and celebrates food in an engaging and imaginative way.

Genres: Cookbooks

256 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 2019

Reviews

[Frances · Rating 4 out of 5]

brilliant puns, but often that's all that was needed. sometimes the whole recipe felt as if it was going a bit too far?

that said, I wanna host ridiculous architecture meals 5th year xo