Cool Hunting
| 24 November 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Classic Cookbooks
by Ami Kealoha
For some, Thanksgiving is the one day of the year when cookbooks come off shelves and get put to use. With last month's English-language release of the Italian classic The Silver Spoon, lauded as the bible of Italian cuisine, and the upcoming 75th anniversary of the Joy of Cooking in 2006, we decided to take a look at other books that have made it into the culinary canon. Here, we check in with Rose Levy Beranbaum, who's been using the Joy of Cooking since 1963 and is an author of a classic herself, the renowned Cake Bible. Monkey Town chef Coleman Lee Foster tells of the pivotal moment he stumbled on the Futurist Cookbook and how its cutting-edge polemics influenced the experimental cuisine served at his restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. And, the founder-chef of NYC's forthcoming Trellis Fine Catering, Peter Swanson, weighs-in on the old-school French techniques of Escoffier.
The whole story follows after the jump.
Chucks by FactoryPeople and Youth of Tomorrow
by Josh Rubin
Austin City Limits puts on the ACL Festival every September, and Factory People is the social hub of the event, with many of the bands dropping by the shop to buy new tour clothes, take a turn on their DJ setup, or just hang out.
This year Factory People asked Youth of Tomorrow to create a unique item for an installation at their big after-party with Fader magazine. Being all about quintessential, YoT settled on customizing some Chuck Taylor All-Stars, the quintessential rock n roll footwear.
The 5 pairs based on the music of 5 different bands playing ACL are shown after the jump with descriptions from YoT. All pairs are being auctioned on eBay with 100% of the proceeds being donated to the San Juan Diego Catholic High School.
Cindy Wright
by Evan Orensten
Cindy Wright is a Belgian artist who is showing her work for the first time in the United States at Pulse, a fair concurrent with Art Basel in Miami. [We'll be on site giving you reports all next week].
Cindy's work is nothing short of awe inspiring. Her Lips, 2004, above right, is reminiscent of a similar painting (of a woman's lips with smeared lipstick) by Nancy Graves. Others have said that her work is like "Thomas Ruff." In any case what you will see are still life and portrait paintings that are incredibly lifelike, almost like photographs. This group of works show flesh and blood literally, as in Baconcube 1, 2003, above left.
This prize winning young artist (she's won the Young Belgian Painting Prize, the BP Portrait Award and the 10th International Hoppeland Painting Prize, among others) will have her first solo exhibition in the U.S. at Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica (one of our favorites), in February, 2006.
