The Art of Cooking
Martha Rosler, edited by Stephen Squibb



 

In the early 1970s, in the midst of a body of work linking cuisine, cooking, women, labor, imperialism, and even photography, Martha Rosler wrote "The Art of Cooking," a mock dialogue between Julia Child, the pioneer television chef schooling Americans in how to produce haute cuisine at home, and then New York Times restaurant critic Craig Claiborn. Here published in full for the first time, "The Art of Cooking" consists in large part of quotations from books on cuisine and cooking from various eras redirected toward a discussion of the role of taste in art.