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Art and Cook: Love Food, Live Design, Dream Art (Hardcover)

~ Allan Ben (Author)
2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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Have you ever seen a cookbook that mixes controversy into its recipes? Have you ever come across a book that combines gourmet dishes, artwork, and political and social commentary? Have you ever experienced a book beginning with the suggestive and unique packaging it comes in, that contains cutting-edge creative, and provocative contents that simultaneously stimulate, insatiate and exacerbate? Can a single book raise questions, stir emotions, and make you thirst for food and knowledge? "Art and Cook" may just be this generation's breakthrough book and it's aptly labled by its creators as being the leader of the "Revolutionary Movement."

"Art and Cook: Love Food, Live Design, and Dream Art" is not your ordinary cookbook. Nor is it your ordinary art book. In fact, it's hard to classify, as it consists fully of three integrated parts that overlap, merge and melt into each other. Our life's art, food and politics are intertwined in a fascinating approach taken by creative talent that until now has remained behind the scenes.

About the Author

ALLAN BEN, author and driving conceptual force behind "Art and Cook," has been described by the magazine, "Studio Photography & Design" as "an artist and a businessman, just as concerned with creating an effective piece, as his is with doing his work, in a way that makes objects emotional." EMMANUEL PALETZ, art director for "Art and Cook," is an award-winning artist whose work was presented at the Opening Ceremony of the "New Talent Pavilion" at the Milia '98 International Interactive Media Exhibition in Cannes, France. His work has been published in the prestigious book "WWW Flash: The Best Designs from Around the World."

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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Digital in Space, Inc. (November 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0974308927
  • ISBN-13: 978-0974308920
  • Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 9.9 x 2.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #663,416 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Tantalizing..., December 9, 2003
By Kim M Hornyak (Jenkins Group, Inc., Traverse City, MI United States) - See all my reviews
I was first drawn to this book by the innovative egg-carton packaging and the captivating title and cover design. This unique and delightful cookbook presents all at once a celebration of great food and a salute to fine art.

The recipes offer a tempting array of appetizers, soups, salad and vegetable dishes, meats, poultry, and desserts - some with a European flavor, others Mediterranean and Middle Eastern. Each recipe is accompanied by a professional photograph, and clear, concise instructions that allow even the novice chef to successfully recreate the dishes.

I am particularly impressed by the ease with which I can prepare and present these foods. The complexity of the flavors in each recipe belies the simplicity of execution. For the first time I am able to prepare a dish that really looks like the beautiful photograph in the book! Favorite recipes include Fettuccine Alfredo with Asparagus Tips and Walnuts, Grilled Chicken Soup with Carrot Dumplings, Orange and Cognac Beef Stew over Egg Noodles, and Crepes with Vanilla Pastry Cream and Citrus Sauce.

Of note, too, are the intriguing, and often humorous nods to famous artists and their brand of surreal, abstract and conceptual art. The architects of this book are genius in their creativity, and masterful in their execution.

I highly recommend "Art and Cook" for gift-giving and for personal use!

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars extra ingredients sacrificed to page layout, March 2, 2006
If you want a cookbook that is so poorly edited that you will have multiple extra ingredients from the ingredient list that are not used in the recipe, then this is the book for you.

Entire paragraphs seem to have been cut out of the recipes for the sake of page layout.

What a piece of garbage. I have never been one to burn books, but this is a good candidate for the incinerator.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Don't believe the hype, December 14, 2006
I bought this book because of a rave review in the LA Times. It was intended as a gift but I would be too embarrassed to give it to anyone. Rarely have I seen a worse designed book. It looks like first generation web design blown up and printed between hard covers. The recipes themselves look interesting and the photos are cute but the prentious verbiage and overblown graphics gave me indigestion before I set foot in the kitchen.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Boiled Brillance
This is a book to be devoured by the intellect while visually stimulating your hunger pallatte. After reading some of the negative reviews, I realize these authors are cooks not... Read more
Published on December 31, 2007 by C. Ratfield

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun and original book!
I was very impressed with this book. Art and Cook is a very original concept and a great conversation piece for your coffee table or as a gift. Read more
Published on December 2, 2005 by John Hildebrandt

1.0 out of 5 stars A stupid pretentious book, written by a stupid pretentious person, for stupid pretentious people - a complete rip-off.
Aside from the fact that the book was plagiarized by Allan Ben from unknowing photographers & designers who were swindled out of their ideas, designs, compensation, and credit -... Read more
Published on November 27, 2005 by D. Reardon

1.0 out of 5 stars freakish and pretentious
I use the words freakish and pretentious to describe this book because not only is it filled with "the cloud" (frenetic repeated techno-graphics used so commonly in... Read more
Published on June 3, 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars At Last a Cookbook That is Not Boring
The creators of this book are genius. I got this book as a holiday present. For the first time I could cook a gurmet dish so easy and talk about the concept behind the recipe... Read more
Published on January 6, 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars Art maybe. Cook no.
This book has mediocre art value and no cook value. At 9.99 it would be expensive.
Published on January 5, 2004

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