You know a book has made a splash when chic boutique TenOverSix is holding a book signing event for the author. In Salad for President: A Cookbook Inspired by Artists, out last month, Brooklyn-based mixed-media artist, food photographer, and writer Julia Sherman collects recipes from artists, architects, and photographers, offering glimpses into their creative spaces and lives.
The book signing will be held Saturday, June 24 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at TenOverSix in The Joule. Americano will serve the book’s peach panzanella as a special all of this week, through Saturday, for $13.
The book’s forewords are written by artist Robert Irwin, whose work you may know from the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, and by Bon Appetit magazine’s Christine Muhlke. (You see the crowd.) One of my favorite artists, Laurie Anderson, whose strange, haunting, conceptual music and spoken word shows I’ve been attending for years, has recipe amongst the list of dozens. So does Alice Waters. So do many others.
Before the cookbook, there was Sherman’s blog Salad for President, and the two Salad Gardens she tended, one at MoMA PS1, the Museum of Modern Art in Queens, New York, where she planted over 50 varieties of heirloom greens, and one at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. In the introduction to her cookbook, Sherman writes that the Salad Project didn’t start as art for her, though “it operates like good art should: it makes the everyday seem at once familiar and strange.” The cookbook that arose as a natural extension of her meditations on all things creative and salad-y is artful, too. Recipes include pink peppercorn candied citrus salad and white bean salad with preserved lemon, mache, and seared calamari; in the “F*%k brunch” chapter, golden coriander cauliflower with labneh and a fried egg or brothy breakfast soup with poached egg, maitake, escarole, and a poached egg; and in the chapter entitled “Salad on the rocks: cocktails, soups, desserts, and other abuses of the format,” you’ll find Salad Garden martinis and tomatillo and corn chowder with hominy and avocado.
To recap: go on June 24 to have Sherman sign her book and hear her talk about the Salad Garden projects and all things artsy and salad-ful. If you’d like, consider it installation art.
Reserve a spot by emailing: [email protected].
For more about Sherman, Salad For President, and TenOverSix, read from the press excerpt below:
About Julia Sherman
Julia Sherman is Brooklyn-based mixed-media artist, photographer, writer and cook. Sherman is the creator of Salad for President. She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from Columbia University. Sherman has been a contributing artist/writer to Triple Canopy, White Zinfandel, Lucky Peach, and Cabinet Magazine. Her visual art has been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Sculpture Center in Long Island City; Recess; and the Jewish Museum. Sherman was also the founder of the Los Angeles artist-run gallery Workspace, and has apprenticed with a weaver, a wig-maker and a cobbler.
About Salad for President
Salad for President is an evolving publishing project that draws a meaningful connection between food, art and everyday obsessions. In the Summer of 2014, Salad For President created the first ever MoMA PS1 Salad Garden, reimagining the previously unused rooftop of the museum as a public space for heirloom vegetables, performances and dinners. The second Salad Garden was installed at the Los Angeles Getty Museum in 2015.
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