Root: Historic Food for the Modern World

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Les Diners de Gala

Les Diners de Gala

The Cookbook as Performance/Art

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Julia Skinner
Aug 01, 2022
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Les Diners de Gala
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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.

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