Mina Stone, Cooking for Artists

- Dimensions: 9.75" x 12.25" x 1"

- Cooking for Artists is a cookbook by chef Mina Stone, featuring over 70 simple, Greek-inspired, family-style recipes based on her experience cooking for artists and art world luminaries, notably at Urs Fischer's Brooklyn-based studio. The book, designed by Urs Fischer and featuring beautiful photography and drawings by artists like Matthew Barney and Elizabeth Peyton, blends her Greek heritage with fresh, seasonal ingredients, creating a collection that is both a practical cookbook and a work of art.

- Stone writes in her introduction, "I was freshly out of art school with a BFA in fashion and my own small line of dresses. I started cooking to support myself while I tried to build my label, and—long story short—I realized I crawled into bed with cookbooks much more often than with Vogue. I was never formally trained. I learned mostly on my own, mostly from cooking shows (yes!), and mostly from my eighty-six-year-old Greek yiayia, who cooks every single day the most delicious food you've ever had. She taught me to boil potatoes before roasting them, to make them extra-crispy and soft. She taught me to add the bulk of the olive oil after the food was cooked for full flavor and health. She taught me how to make chickpeas meltingly tender and transform them into the best stew with only four ingredients. She taught me how to cook in order to please people—figuring out what they like and incorporating it into the dish at hand, making more than you need, and going the extra mile."

- Simple, vibrant, fresh, and delicious.