Gallery: You Can Finally Own a Copy of Salvador Dalí's Wild Cookbook
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Salvador Dalí was known for his Surrealist paintings, but also for the lavish dinner parties he threw with his wife and muse, Gala.
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The meals served at those parties helped to inspire Dalí's 1973 cookbook, *Les Diners de Gala*.
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*Les Diners de Gala* is food porn at its most gluttonous.
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The suggested recipes—which are all, somewhat remarkably, actual recipes you can follow—aren't for dieters.
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Red meat, starch, seafood, and aphrodisiac foods feature prominently.
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The cookbook features 136 recipes, including such eccentric items as “Thousand year old eggs,” and “Bush of crayfish in Viking herbs."
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Until recently, these exotic-sounding recipes really were rare delicacies: the original Les Diners de Gala published in a limited run; surviving copies are rare and expensive.
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That changes this month with Taschen’s reprint ($60) of Dalí’s book.
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The reissue is a faithful clone of the original. Dalí’s recipes, but the artist's paintings and collgaes are the real stars.
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They're not exactly instructive, but they'll assuredly put your foodstagrams to shame.
