CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/27/2019

Thanksgiving inspiration in 'Picasso's Kitchen'

"In the edible—and even in the inedible—there is a joyful possibility of swallowing the world," Emmanuel Guigon writes in Staff Favorite Holiday Gift Book for Food Lovers, Picasso's Kitchen. "Picasso had this taste for the world and for all that is concrete, to the point of biting into it: 'I can no longer bear this miracle, that of knowing nothing of this world and having learned nothing but to love things and eat them alive.' His continual inventions and the euphoria of his imagery bear witness to an insatiable appetite: Picasso enters the arena of the kitchen and commences his great ceremony. As Heraclitus said: 'the gods are in the kitchen.'" Featured image is "The Bottle of Wine" (1926).