The How Not To Cookbook

The How Not To Cookbook


Download a sample HERE.	The How Not to Cookbook Second Edition, 2010 320 pages; 7.875 x 9.25". Hardcover, approx $25 ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-3499-0 Published by: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 300 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10010 www.indiebound.org Or purchase online: Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk Barnes & Noble Powell's Books

Download a sample HERE.	The How Not to Cookbook First (limited) Edition, 2009 320 pages; 8.54 x 10.16". Hardcover, approx £30 ISBN: 978-3-86895-032-8 Published by: Collective Gallery 22-28 Cockburn Street Edinburgh, EH1 1NY UK T: +44 131 220 1260 mail@collectivegallery.net www.collectivegallery.net


While the typical cookbook format gives you a recipe for obvious success it does not take into account the many ways in which its execution can fail due to the cook's lack of experience. Based on Aleksandra's personal history of cooking disasters, the project invites 1000 people from all around the world to give their advice of how NOT to cook. With this volume, any reader will be more than well equipped to avoid making the same mistakes in their kitchen. Aleksandra is interested in how we are taught or teach ourselves through trial and error. By making our guilty failures public we may even be creating an original and subversive form of art, rather than simply be aspiring to obvious and repetitive results. -Kate Gray, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh Visit the website www.hownotto.info


texts on The How Not To Cookbook: Stein, Joshua David, The How Not to Cookbook: Lessons Learned the Hard Way, www.eater.com, NYC, Dec 13, 2010. Joann, Nona, Cooking Lessons the Hard Way, www.babybites.info, Denver, Nov 2, 2010. Greene, Gael, The How Not to Cookbook, www.insatiable-critic.com, NYC, Oct 5, 2010. Mir, Aleksandra, What's so Funny?, Frieze Talks, Frieze Art Fair, London, Oct 14, 2010. Allen, Emma, 16 Helpful Tips from Artist Aleksandra Mir's "The How Not to Cookbook", www.artinfo.com, NYC, Sept 23, 2010. Hollings, Ken, 'How Not to Cook Book' New Edition, www.kenhollings.blogspot.com, NYC, Sept 23, 2010. Pleasance, Penny, The How Not to Cookbook by Aleksandra Mir, www.nyjournalofbooks.com, NYC, Sept 14, 2010. Birnbaum, Molly, Ironic Chef, Artnews, Vol 109, #8, New York, Sept 2010. Kousoulas, Claudia, The How Not To Cookbook, www.appetiteforbooks.wordpress.com, Bethesda, Sept 10, 2010. Bir, Sara, The How Not to Cookbook, www.sarabir.com, NYC, June 18, 2010. Allsop, Laura, here, there, everywhere, ArtReview, #40, London, April 2010. Muthalaly, Shonali, Lessons on how not to cook, www.thehindu.com, Dehli, Jan 15, 2010. James, Nola, The way to good cooking may be learning what not to do, www.thepunch.com.au, Sydney, Oct 14, 2009. Elser, Daniela, Meals you don't read about, www.theage.com.au, Melbourne, October 13, 2009. Healey, Luke, Artist in Focus: Aleksandra Mir, www.studentnewspaper.org, Edinburgh, Oct 2, 2009. McLean-Ferris, Laura, The How Not to Cookbook: Lessons Learned the Hard Way, ArtReview, #35, London, Oct 2009. Mei, Book #2: the how not to cookbook, www.familystyles.wordpress.com, Sept 8, 2009. de Waal, Caro, How NOT to cook. Chef Caro has a moment of clarity, www.food24.com, Green Point, Septr 2009. Santopietro, Jill, The Art of Eating \| Don’t Cook This Book, www.themoment.blogs.nytimes.com, NYC, Sept 4, 2009. Nicola, The How Not To Cookbook, www.ediblegeography.com, London, Sept 3, 2009. Doubal, Rosalie, Aleksandra Mir's The How Not To Cookbook, www.publicartscotland.com, Glasgow, Sept 3, 2009. Rebecca, The How Not To Cookbook, www.quirkycooking.com, London, Aug 28, 2009. Forbes, Paula, the Anti-Cookbook, www.eatmedaily.com, NYC, Aug 24, 2009. Renton, Alex, The how not to Cookbook, www.guardian.co.uk, London, Aug 24, 2009. Scotsman, Arts Review: Aleksandra Mir, Scotland on Sunday, Edinburgh, Aug 23, 2009. Renton, Alex, Never boil an avocado, and other handy tips, www.timesonline.co.uk, London, Aug 20, 2009. Saunderson, Hazel, Lessons learned the hard way, www.hazelsa.blogspot.com, Glasgow, Aug 16, 2009. Francis, Mary Anne, Toast, www.maryannefrancis.org, Edinburgh, Aug 5, 2009. Mir, Aleksandra, First Edition Project Notes, www.hownnottocook.co.uk, Spring 2009.