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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides an fragmentary, aesthetic portrait of french haute cuisine. The writing begins with a comment on black truffles, followed by brief biography of Jean Banchet. The artist’s then closes the document with a nod to the…

This note from LeRoy Neiman provides an a pictorial description of a fragmented set of images from haute cuisine. Despite this fragmentation, the note proves divided in three more general sections: food, “High Tea”, and wine. Neiman then describes…

This not from LeRoy Neiman theorizes the connection between so-called art and “food as an art form”. The winding writing then proceeds to compare cooking and (largely fine) dining to at set of what might be thought of more conventionally as cultural…

This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a set of images, thinking about food and food culture. Although the writing appears to be composed of almost purely fragmentary statements, such as “gulp and gorge”, it proves part of a larger project of crafting…