The Museum of Modern Art Artists' Cookbook. 155 recipes. Conversations with Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors

Madeleine Conway and Nancy Kirk. Photographs of the artists by Blaine Waller.

The Museum of Modern Art & Abrams. New York. 1977. First edition. Paperback; sprial-bound wrappers. 165 pages. B&w photographs of artists throughout. English. 230 x 170mm. 0.4kg. 9780810920996. Very good; light shelf wear to wrappers, light wear to corners, light wrinkling to laminate of rear wrapper; light crease to lower forecorner of first three leaves, pencil price notation to half-title, previous owner's label to verso of front wrapper.

An amusing cookbook with a difference, comprising of conversations with thirty contemporary artists. The artists are predominantly American. Each entry includes a photograph of the artist (usually cooking or eating), an interview with them about their attitudes to food plus culinary anecdotes, and a selection of their favourite recipes. Choice recipes include Louise Bourgeois' Marzipan Sundae, Dali's Ortolans en Papillote Lasserre, Helen Frankenthaler's Quick Heavenly Hors d'Oeuvres,Tom Wesselmann's Tom's Reheated Mister Salty Pretzels and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Milk of Tomato Soup.