Secret recipes for the modern wife : from accommodating breakfasts to just desserts, recipes for deteriorating marriages / written and designed by Nava Atlas

Atlas, Nava

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Title Secret recipes for the modern wife : from accommodating breakfasts to just desserts, recipes for deteriorating marriages / written and designed by Nava Atlas

Variant Title Recipes for deteriorating marriages

Creator Atlas, Nava

Publisher New Paltz, NY : Amberwood Press

Edition First limited edition.

Date 2007

Subject(s) Cooking--Humor
Marriage--Humor
Divorce--Humor
Artists' books--New York (State)

Physical Description 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.

Table of Contents

Part one: Recipes for accommodation: Sweethearts' breakfast buffet
Shrimp cocktail with a piquant sauce of expectation
Gender role casserole
Guilt soup
Toast of total exhaustion
People-pleasing tossed salad
Part two: Recipes for trouble: Incredibly expensive skirt steak
Banana and sweet potato tango
Beans 'n weenies of sexual tension
Midlife stress-stuffed cabbage
Hyper-critical raisin roll
Broiled lack-of-courage chicken
Part three: Recipes for disaster: Soufflé of fallen expectations
Faithless meatballs with lima beans
Bizarro meat loaves
Psychotherapy pie
Sweet cakes of hope.

Description This is not a true recipe book but rather one that uses the concept of recipes to make bitter fun of marital relationships that are coming apart. As the author notes in the colophon: "Dedicated to all my friends who have endured divorce, and others who may yet need to do so."

Local Note Photographed and posted with permission of the artist.

Archive Location Artists' Book Collection - Call Number: PN6231.C624 A74 2007

Content Type(s) text
physical object
still image

Language(s) English

Rights Statement IN COPYRIGHT
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Record Appears in Artists' Books > Race, Identity & Gender

Identifier 393025