Les Diners de Gala

The Cookbook as Performance/Art

For most of us, the name Salvador Dali conjures up images of melting clocks, abstract, long-legged figures in a desert backdrop, or maybe his perilously long mustache. You may not think of him as a cookbook author, but he was (sort of), and the cookbook he kind of authored is as absolutely surreal and over the top as you would expect.

Reading it is also…