To prepare the filling: Peel, core, and thinly slice apples. Set aside untilĬlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Dinner With Jackson Pollock Subtitle Recipes, Art & Nature Author Robyn LeaĤ lb granny smith apples, or any combination of tart apples Stir in walnuts.Īdd melted butter and vanilla and stir to combine. Serve with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream or crème fraîche.įor streusel: Place flour, both sugars, cinnamon, rosemary and salt

Here the beautiful fruit is combined with apples and raisins and topped with a walnut streusel kissed with rosemary in a gratin that is sure to please. A similar peach called Spring Snow is available in the United States.

But it wasn't enough for Monet to grow the fruit a white-flesh peach called pêche de la vigne also appeared in one of his paintings. Monet grew his own peaches, espaliered against a walled enclosure that surrounded his vegetable garden. How?ģ tablespoons (35 g) firmly packed dark brown sugarġ⁄8 teaspoon finely chopped fresh rosemaryġ/2 cup (1 stick) (120 g) unsalted butter, melted Your purchase helps support NPR programming. His apple pie even won first place in a local pie baking competition.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Monet's Palate Cookbook Subtitle The Artist & His Kitchen Garden at Giverny Author Aileen Bordman Painting, like cooking, was a way of living.'Ī giant of abstract expressionism, Pollock has an outward reputation 'as a narcissistic action-painter fueled to alcoholic self-destruction,' author Lea writes.īut the handwritten recipes found at his house reveal a quieter, domestic side. The artists' approaches to food provide a new way of thinking about their very different approaches to art, and of understanding the artists themselves.Īs Francesca Pollock, the artist's niece, writes in Dinner's introduction, 'He painted the same way he cooked: Endlessly using leftovers keeping and re-using trying one color or shape and then another. Two new books focusing on the culinary lives of artists - Monet's Palate Cookbook, by Aileen Bordman and Derek Fell, and Dinner with Jackson Pollock, by Robyn Lea - show this to be an oversight. A selection of handwritten recipes discovered in Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock's pantry.

Everyday Monet by Aileen Bordman