Modern Art Desserts

Cookbook meets exhibit catalog in this art-themed collection. --Library Journal Let them eat cake...and art! Thanks to Caitlin Freeman, an author ne� pastry chef with a unique and fresh talent, we can do just that. Freeman has written a visually rich book of charming dessert recipes from which you can re-create edible versions of your favorite works of modern art. --Trendland This book gets my ganache flowing--if only art history always tasted this good. --Todd Selby, photographer and author of Edible Selby Brilliant, quirky, and irresistible. Having tasted many of these dishes over the years, I'm not sure what's more exciting, the recipes or the stories behind them. All dessert books should be this much fun! --Daniel Patterson, chef-owner of COI restaurant Only Caitlin Freeman is brave enough (and crazy enough) to dream up desserts inspired by works of modern art--and inventive enough to pull it off. Who looks at a Cindy Sherman self-portrait and sees an ice-cream float made with bubblegum soda, or at a Richard Avedon photograph of a beekeeper and pictures a glossy honey-pistachio parfait? This is more than a cookbook, it's a journal of the creative process. --Oliver Strand, food journalist and coffee columnist for the New York Times The desserts Caitlin Freeman has created for the SFMOMA Blue Bottle Caf� are masterpieces in their own right. It's one thing to make the most perfect white cake, frosting, and ganache; it's another to use those media to create art, as she has with her Mondrian Cake. That is Caitlin's special gift, and one that she has generously shared in this beautiful book. It, too, is a masterpiece. --Charlotte Druckman, food journalist and author of Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen This book touches the body's most sensitive organ--the stomach. Most artists dream of creating works so provocative that they stimulate the brain while enervating all the other senses. Caitlin Freeman, probably the most innovative baker this side of Mars, does this spectacularly. Here's a cookbook that demands you genuflect before its sheer creativity. It says 'on your knees' in a sugared tone. --Bompas & Parr, authors of Feasts with Bompas & Parr and founders of the Bompas & Parr studio