"Art is a form of nourishment," Susan Sontag wrote in her diary. This, perhaps, is why the relationship between art and nourishment has such a long history of transcending the metaphorical, from the cuisine of Futurism to Liberace's cookbook to the meals of famous fiction.
In 1977, decades before The Modern Art Cookbook made its debut, a pair of art and cuisine enthusiasts, Madeleine Conwayand Nancy Kirk, collaborated with New York's MoMA on The Museum of Modern Art Artists' Cookbook (public library) — a marvelous compendium of favorite recipes and reflections on food by thirty of the era's most prominent artists, including Salvador Dalí, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Indiana, Will Barnett, Larry Rivers, Andy Warhol, and Willem de Kooning.
