The Artist's Palate
Cooking with the World's Great Artists
by Frank Fedele


Book Revues!
“The Artist’s Palate is very beautiful. I love it. I know what’s going to be on my holiday gift list!”

---Helen A. Harrison, Author, and Director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center		  
Lee Krasner, Stella Pollack and Jackson Pollack in the Pollock kitchen at The Springs, East Hamptons
   

Lee Krasner, Stella Pollock and Jackson Pollock in the Pollock kitchen
at The Springs, East Hamptons


Michelangelo, Bacchus, 1700
Museo Uffizi, Milan



Leonardo da Vinci, Self Portrait,
ca. 1512


John James Audubon


Al Hirshfeld, Self Portrait, Courtesy Louise Kerz Hirshfeld and Margo Feiden Gallery

 

 

 


Joan Miro enjoys calcotada at a festival in Valls, Spain, 1954

 

 

 

What's New
Art in Food/Food in Art
A multimedia event
and book signing

“The Artist’s Palate is a true celebration. Not only does each profile commemorate a great artist and his work, but the collection itself pays homage to a connective power that is unique to food and art…With his exceptional knowledge of the artists and their world, Frank gives readers the means to approach the artist as something beyond just the visually familiar, something more tangy and more visceral…each page, each anecdote, is touching, thoughtful and rare. It’s food and art at its best, as that which can unite even the most seemingly separate minds and worlds.”
---From the foreword by Chef Mario Batali

"The book is delectable!!"
---Sculptor; Louise Bourgeois

“Several contemporary artists gave Fedele their favorite recipes; Beverly Pepper’s Lemon Spaghetti, I can attest, was lovely one hot summer night”  
---Excerpt from review; Aesthetes Feast" by Ellisa Meyers, September 3, 2003, egullet.com Presents The Daily Gullet

“I think that the combination of artists and recipes are just scrumptious!”
---Joan R. Kropf, Curator of Collection The Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Fla.

“I knew that Leonardo da Vinci was a vegetarian, but this is the first time that I have seen one of his actual recipes. It’s also fascinating to know what the other 88 artists ate!”
---Muldoon Elder; Owner of Vorpal Galleries, New York and San Francisco

Meals Made with True Artistry
Voila! Recipes from the Palates of the World's Greatest Painters
"Artists are better known for the food they painted than the meals they ate....Art-world veteran Frank Fedele changes that perception with his engaging new coffee-table cookbook, "The Artist's Palate; Cooking with the Worlds Great Artists" (DK Publications, $30).
---Christine Muhlke- The New York Post, (November 2, 2003)

“This is a delightful book! Frank Fedele not only lets us in on some
Interesting facts about these illustrious artists, he lets us share their -
favorite meal, giving us a special insight into their personalities.”
---Don Boarman, Curator, the John James Audubon Museum

“It’s the greatest cookbook ever seen! The visual arts and the gastronomical arts meet on these delectable pages!"
---John Szoke, Owner John Szoke Gallery, New York

“Frank Fedele delivers a sumptuous National Monument banquet of food that speaks to all generations. “The Artist’s Palate” is a classic"
---Barry Moreno, Author; and Historian; The Statue of Liberty Monument.

“The Hopper entry was a delight. I also liked Grant Wood’s strawberry shortcake.”
---Kenneth W. Maddox, Phd, Art Historian, The Newington-Cropsy Foundation.


“…It looks sensational!”
---Louiise Kerz Hirshfeld, Wife of the artist Al Hirshfeld

“I loved the Hopper recipe, it’s just too perfect, as is the book-which would make a perfect holiday gift!”
---Artist; Nancy Redding Kienholz

"Food-on-the-page makes handsome gift!"
The Artist's Palate; Cooking with the World's
Great Artists" selected as this years cultured
holiday book selection by Associated Press.
---Associated Press Writer; Joan Brunskill

“What a feast for the soul and eyes!”
---Sheila Rohan; Sister-in-law to the artist Romare Bearden; The Romare Bearden Foundation

"The book The Artist's Palate is superb, funny, ingenious and out of the ordinary. I like it a lot!"
---Guite Masson, Paris, Son of the artist Andre Masson

"Delcious art and Masterpiece recipes!"
---Perry Wolff, Documentary filmaker

"A tasty book!!"
---Artist; Alan Sonfist

"This is really a delicious book!"
---Philippe E. David, Galerie Maurice Garnier, Paris

"The Artist's Palate" is a celebration of the art of cooking and eating. It is a history lesson as well as social commentary told through ancient grocery lists, many-course feast and quickly assembled snacks."
---Excerpt from article "Food for Thought" by Tina Barry; The Brooklyn Papers

"It's a book that can accommodate both Max Beckman's rapturous declaration; "We also love the great oceans of lobsters and oysters, the virgin forests of champagne," and Andy Warhol's renunciation of it; "Bad taste makes the day go by faster." It acknowledges the inevitable intersection of art and life, sometimes as simply as it did for Francisco Zuniga for whome "bread, wine, it is perfect, no sculpture could be done without bread and wine."
---Lennie Bennet, St. Petersburg Times Floridian (November 22, 2003)

"All artists devote themselves to the sense of sight but many also cultivate a private passion for the sense of taste. In The Artist's Palate, you are taken into the homes and kitchens of 89 artists to share this passion."
---Andre Emmerich, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York

"Hmm...My coffee table has been looking a little bare lately..."
---Vittles Vamp

"Many a stocking would welcome "The Artist's Palate; Cooking with the World's Great Artists."
--- Mary Abbe, Star Tribune (Nove. 30, 2003)

"The Artist's Palate is a culinary treasure with a twist, sure to be enjoyed by anyone with a taste for art and an artful plate."
---Barbara-Jo's Books to Cooks

"It's no surprise that art and food make for a natural marriage, in this beautiful book brimming with lively anecdotes and little-known facts about the world's greatest artists."
---Chef Adventures

"This unusual book teaches art history from an intriguing perspective-that of the kitchen...This will appeal to cooks with an interest in the arts, of course, but even more so to art history students and scholars."
---Library Journal

"Sensational Work"
A peek into other painterly skills...From Paul Klee's inspired receipe for endive and grapefruit "Sun Whirl" salad to factual nibblets about M.C. Escher's habit of obsessively arranging cheese so that it would "cover as exactly the entire slice of bread," Frank Fedele's delectable "The Artist's Palate ($30, DK) proves our theory that artists are the original lifestyle gurus."
---Elle Magazine, March 2004 Living with Art "Feast your eyes"
Forefront: Cookbooks: Food Cooking is also an Art: "The Artist's Palate" by Frank Fedele is subtitled "Cooking with the World's Great Artists" and it surely does deliver on it's promise, drawing on a veritable "Who's Who" both living and dead."
--- The Food Channel; Trendwire


    The Artist's Palate
    Cooking with the World's Great Artists
    by Frank Fedele

    Foreword by Mario Batali

  • Hardcover: 192 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.77 x 11.19 x 8.90
  • Publisher: DK Publishing; 1st edition (September 2003)
  • ISBN: 0789477688

Copyright 2005 Frank Fedele, All Rights Reserved

 

 

Cookbook, art history of the world's greatest artists, and their favorite recipes