Painter's Kitchen (Old Edition)

Painter's Kitchen (Old Edition) by Margaret Wood. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781878610010.

Georgia OKeeffe, well known for her striking paintings of the Southwest, carried her creativity into the kitchen, where she took great pride in her healthy culinary style. The meals served in her household focused on homegrown and natural foods. They were always tasty, nutritious, modest, and beautifully prepared. A Painters Kitchen is Margaret Woods recollection of seventy recipes from Georgia OKeeffes kitchen. As Miss OKeeffes companion for five years, Woods responsibilities included, among other things, preparing many of the meals. OKeeffe directed Miss Wood in the preparation of simple, delicious food using many fresh ingredients and insisted that Wood pay scrupulous attention to every step of food production and preparation. Besides containing recipes from Miss OKeeffes kitchen, the book describes in charming detail Miss OKeeffes outlook on food, philosophy, life, art, and the world, while maintaining respect for the artists well-known desire for privacy. Margaret Wood left Miss OKeeffes employ in 1982. She was a production weaver for Kozikowski Tapestry Weavers and since 1988 has been a speech/language pathologist. "Lavishly sprinkled with black-and-white photographs of the artist as well as full-color food photos, "A Painters Kitchen" is a feast for the eyes as well as the mind and stomach."-Mail Order Gourmet "More than just a cookbook, this text describes OKeeffes outlook on life and art in 128 pages."-Southwest Art "Here is a way of cooking and eating serene in accumulated wisdom (Miss OKeeffe was in her nineties at the time the author knew her) and rich in undiminished sensual delight."-Cook Book Sample Recipe: During the 1960s and 1970s, many prominent magazines featured interviews with Georgia OKeeffe, along with photographs of both her houses. During supper one evening she recalled the occasion when a female staff member from one of the magazines had come to the Abiquiu house and was straightening everything up so meticulously that it no longer looked like the painters house. At one point, when the woman was making every curtain pleat perfect, Miss OKeeffe could not resist saying to her,