A cookbook by Salvador Dali Bashny.Net

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"When I was six years old, I wanted to be a chef," admitted once a great surrealist. But only before the age of sixty, he published a book of recipes entitled "Les Diners de Gala", which can be translated as "gala Dinners" (his wife) and "Gala dinner".

At 322 pages, published in 1973, say, with a circulation of just 400 copies – 136 recipes created by real French chefs, whose names are shamefully not mentioned, 12 paintings by the master and a lot of graphic sketches. In the Preface, written by Dalí, says: "We would like to make it clear that all the recipes in "Les Diners de Gala" with their description and illustrations, entirely devoted to the pleasure of Taste. Why not look here diet meals. We deliberately avoided the diagrams and tables in which chemistry could replace the drink. If you are one of podschechinu calories, which turns the pleasure of eating in some form of punishment, close this book immediately; you the she too alive, bold and aggressive"





I must say that, in contrast to the illustrations, nothing surreal in the recipes no, there are no fresh brains monkey sauce, grape slugs or cocktails from the ink of octopus with vodka and Calvados. The most exotic in the book can only be a table of contents and a recipe from the peacock king.





The table of contents should stay. In the book into 12 sections, named the most surreal way:
1. Exotic dishes Les caprices pincés princiers (Cutesy Regal whims)
2. Eggs and seafood Les cannibalismes de l'automne (Autumn cannibalism)
3. Entrees Les suprêmes de malaises lilliputiens (Higher Lilliputian fun)
4. Meat Les entre-plats sodomisés (Stomaservice snacks)
5. Snails-frogs spoutniks astiqués d Les asticots statistiques (statistical Polished satellites larvae)
6. Fish and seafood, Les panaches panachés (Motley plumes)
7. Game–bird Les chairs monarchiques (Monarchical flesh)
8. Pork Les montres molles 1/2 sommeil (Soft watches half sleep)
9. Vegetables L atavisme désoxyribonucléique (Deoxyribonucleic throwback)
10. Aphrodisiacs Les “je mange GALA” (I eat Gala)
11. Sweets-desserts Les pios nonoches (Midnight passion)
12. Snacks Les délices petits martyrs (Little sinful pleasure)

In addition, throughout the book is generously scattered semi-philosophical semi-meaningless statements of Salvador Dali, such as:
"I like to eat only what is clear and understandable form. And if I hate such vile and degrading vegetable like spinach, only for the fact that it is the same formless and undefined Freedom"
However, we are ready to give you some recipes so you can make sure that, despite his eccentricity, Dalí was not deprived of the normal pursuit of Epicureanism and hedonism.

Red salad

(serves four for lunch, or eight as an appetizer)
250 grams of red beet, chopped
250 grams of smoked tongue, cut
340 grams red cabbage, finely chopped
5 tablespoons chilled heavy cream
3 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp tomato paste
1 bulb shallot, chopped
1 tsp sugar
Cayenne pepper and salt to taste
The iceberg lettuce

Mix cream, tomato paste, sugar, shallots and pepper. Beat for 3 minutes until the mixture is light and foam. Slowly pour, continuing to whisk, lemon juice. Put in a salad bowl beets, cabbage, and language. Pour with the dressing and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours. Salt and pepper to taste. Serve on lettuce leaves.

Acne of the Rising sun

6 slices conger eel
6 slices of streaky bacon
1 oil seal (not required, but would be nice)
12 small leaves of lettuce
300 grams of fresh soy beans (can be canned)
6 tsp. heavy cream
1 tbsp. butter
1 tbsp flour
1 tsp curry
Cayenne pepper

First of all, prepare the pieces of conger eel, carefully removing the code and the ridge. Put the pieces of eel on slices of bacon, clipping the eel along the length of the bacon. And all this on a piece of omentum, slightly larger. Salt and pepper, on each piece of eel on leaf lettuce and 50 g. soybeans. Sprinkle with a little curry powder, salt and pepper. Add a teaspoon of cream, cover with the second leaf of lettuce and wrap it all in a seal.

In a large frying pan strongly heat the butter, cook the fish pieces on low fire for 40 minutes, turning occasionally. Remove from heat and place in heat. In the pan, sprinkle with flour and fry until Golden but do not let get brown. Add cream and curry, season to taste. Give a little boil and pour the resulting sauce over the pieces of eel.

Cocktail Casanova

The juice of one orange
1 tsp Campari bitters (or other bitters vermouth)
1 tsp. ginger
4 tbsp brandy
2 tbsp old (aged) brandy
1 pinch Cayenne pepper

Ideal for such conditions as fatigue, tiredness after work or just an extreme degree of sobriety. It is a well-proven recipe that meets all the requirements. A particular advantage of this tool is that using it doesn't necessarily make a sour face, as usual when taking medication.
At the bottom of a glass, combine pepper and ginger. Pour the bitters on top, then brandy and old brandy. Refrigerate or, even better, in the freezer.
After thirty minutes, remove and mix with orange juice in a chilled glass.
Drink... and wait for the effect.
It will come pretty quickly.





What we told you? The book is available on Amazon and on Ebay. Given its rarity and small circulation – the price is quite high, and starts from 287 euros. Signed personally Gave copies can be found (depending on the condition of the book) for the sum of 2800 to 4300 euros. However, hurry up such rarities – rare and their value increases from year to year.

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