Bring art, exquisite French flair and surreal reflections into your kitchen. This reprint of Les dîners de Galarecollects the exotic dishes and boundless imagination served at the legendary dinners of Salvador and Gala Dalí. With classic recipes from the great Parisian restaurants such as La Tour d'Argent and Maxim's, illustrations created by Dalí himself and a section on aphrodisiacs, this book is a work of art, a practical recipe book and an object of multisensory pleasure. All in one.

Gala's Dinners

Salvador Dalí's Surrealist Cookbook

Food and surrealism are perfect lovers: sex and lobsters, collage and cannibalism, the meeting of a swan and a toothbrush in a patisserie. The opulent dinners organised by Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) and Gala (1894-1982), his wife and muse, were legendary. Fortunately for us, Dalí published a cookbook in 1973, Les dîners de Gala, which reveals some of the sensual, imaginative and exotic ingredients that came together in such famous encounters.
This reprint groups the136 recipes into 12 chapters, specially illustrated by Dalí and organised according to the different dishes, as well as a section devoted to aphrodisiacs.The illustrations and recipes are accompanied by Dalí's extravagant reflections on the subjects discussed at dinner conversations: "The jaw is our best tool for grasping philosophical knowledge".
All the valuable recipes in the book can be prepared at home, although in some cases they require a good hand in the kitchen and a well-stocked larder. These are old-school dishes, with specialities from top French chefs at Michelin-starred restaurants in Paris such as Lasserre, La Tour d'Argent, Maxim'syLe Train Bleu.Good taste, however voluptuous, never goes out of fashion. And by bringing this exceptionally rare book to the general public, TASCHEN brings a work of art, a practical recipe book and a multi-sensory experience to today's cuisine.

Publisher: Taschen