The How Not to Cookbook: Lessons Learned the Hard Way - Couverture rigide

Mir, Aleksandra

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 386895032X ISBN 13 : 9783868950328

Editeur : Revolver, 2009

Synopsis

While the typical cookbook format gives you a recipe for obvious success it does not take into account the many ways in which its execution can fail due to the cook's lack of experience. Based on Aleksandra's personal history of cooking disasters, the project invites 1000 people from all around the world to give their advice of how NOT to cook. With this volume, any reader will be more than well equipped to avoid making the same mistakes in their kitchen. Aleksandra is interested in how we are taught or teach ourselves through trial and error. By making our guilty failures public we may even be creating an original and subversive form of art, rather than simply be aspiring to obvious and repetitive results. Kate Gray, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh For example... "Never EVER try to figure out if you turned on the hotplate by laying your hand on it. The police may wonder why you do not have fingerprints anymore."

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"For what is more a gallery installation than a cookbook, the artist Aleksandra Mir collected advice from home cooks around the world. Sample tidbit: “Do not cook when you are angry — your dishes will be furious too!" ~New York Times, "Best Culinary Cookbooks of 2010"

"In her memoir, My Life in France, Julia Child wrote, 'One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.' In the How Not to Cookbook, Aleksandra Mir has taken the 'grin and bear it' part to a whole new level.  Instead of a coffee table book, think of this as a kitchen counter book—something that you will dip into for solace and a few laughs the next time you burn the rice—or worse at your next dinner party." ~New York Journal of Books

"Some of the advice is rather ominous - don't fall off the ladder when you're picking cherries for Morello Jelly. Some of the advice is rather obvious - do not overcook anything! All of it is charming." ~Books for Cooks

"The 'Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen' show currently at the Museum of Modern Art is a scholarly take on domestic cookery site's evolution over the course of the 20th century, but it pointedly ignores one aspect of the contemporary kitchen — namely that it's often a place of stomach-turning, fire-belching embarrassment. Luckily, artist Aleksandra Mir has stepped in with a reminder that even the best-designed kitchen can't protect home chefs from catastrophic cuisine with her new book..." ~ArtInfo.com

"...reading it is fun and it could save a neophyte from self immolation and other inconveniences. It made me laugh. And even think." ~Gael Greene, Insatiable Critic.com

Extrait

“When you have accidentally added washing-up liquid to your salad instead of oil, do not attempt to wash it out and serve it to your children.  They will be able to tell the difference.  Even the teenagers.”
 
“Do not salt your meat right before cooking it or else it will dry up.  It will also take all the taste away.”
 
“While boiling pasta do not start two parallel chats on Facebook.”
 
“Never follow online recipes.  You cannot trust the person writing them.”
 
“Do not leave meat in the oven.  Even if you turn the oven off, the meat will continue to cook.”
 
“Never start cooking before you’ve had a glass of wine, but do not start cooking after you’ve had your second glass.”
 
“Do not use colored string to tie up your meat when roasting.  The dye will most likely run into the meat and turn it a funny color.”
 
“Never season a salad while holding a cigarette.”
 
“Do not look into a gas oven too fast after opening the door.  Especially while wearing mascara—it will make your eyelashes glue together.”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Revolver
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 386895032X
• ISBN 13: 9783868950328
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Indigo Musikproduktion + Vertrieb GmbH; https://www.indigo.de; ; Schlachthofstr. 36a; Hamburg; 21079; Allemagne