The Gourmand's Egg. A Collection of Stories and Recipes
The mighty egg
A cultural and culinary history of our favourite everyday ingredient.
Muse to Dalí, nightmare to Hitchcock and humble ingredient: the eternal egg weaves a fascinating tale that stretches back to antiquity. This is the first volume in TASCHEN's series with The Gourmand, illustrated with exclusive photography and historical artworks, celebrating the bond between food and art through original recipes and stories.
Poached, scrambled, boiled, shaken into a cocktail, turned into a paint binder or hurled at an enemy's house. In one of its most striking paradoxes, the egg lives in happy suspension between everyday ingredient and all-powerful source of life. One of antiquity's most enduring symbols: the Romans used it to ward off evil spirits, Russian nobility turned it into priceless objects of goldsmithing, and Egyptian mythology wove it into its stories.
The volume brings together original essays and archetypal recipes — from the perfect poached egg to the most elaborate desserts — spanning the diversity of the world's culinary traditions. It is illustrated with exclusive commissions from top-tier still-life photographers: sumptuous, absurd, garish and appetising in equal measure. Rounding it out are works by giants of art history such as Salvador Dalí, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Frida Kahlo, David Hockney and Man Ray, alongside texts by chef and critic Ruth Reichl and writer and editor Jennifer Higgie.
This is the Spanish-language edition of the first volume in the series.
The authors: The Gourmand is David Lane and Marina Tweed, founders of the food and culture magazine launched in London in 2011.
It covers everything about the egg. Packed with recipes, art references and essays. And to top it off, a spectacular cover. — The New York Times
- Binding: Hardcover.
- Format: 20 × 27.9 cm.
- Weight: 1.35 kg.
- Pages: 288.
- Language: Spanish.
- Publisher: TASCHEN.
- ISBN: 9783836593960.
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