Carnegie Treasures Cookbook

“This extraordinarily beautiful cookbook is indeed a collection of treasures, a joyous exploration of the interplay between the culinary arts-the preparation and presentation of fine foods, imaginatively and with skill-and the fine arts. The Women's Committee of the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute has selected as inspiration for its featured menus twenty masterworks from the museum's collections, paintings by Degas, Monet, Bonnard, Sargent, Cézanne, and O'Keeffe, sculptures by George Segal and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. These have been reproduced in superb full-color photographs, each accompanied by a brief essay that places the work within the context of the artist's career, and the spectacular menu created in celebration of it. The menus and accompanying recipes are as varied as the museum's collections: the boldly unconventional, elegant breakfast-featuring Marinated Rock Cornish Game Hens and Mint Meringue Mushrooms-inspired by Levi Wells Prentice's Still Life with Strawberries; the