Planet Marx

The cuisine of Thierry Marx combines a desire for beauty and enjoyment of here and now with the transformation of food. Thierry quotes the motto of a Japanese master: Cooking is for looking at, meditating on and eating. This book presents 49 recipes, including risotto with soya, oyster and truffle juice, instant chicken bouillon, amongst others.

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The cuisine of Thierry Marx is like no other, combining a desire for pure beauty and enjoyment of here and now with the transformation of food. Thierry readily quotes the motto of a Japanese master: Cooking is for looking at, meditating on and eating. With Thierry it is often an encounter of the third kind. His risotto with soya, oyster and truffle juice, deconstructed tarte au citron or his instant chicken bouillon with a stick of licorice are just some of the 49 recipes presented in this book. Suitably weightless images were needed to accompany this voyage into extra-terrestrial cuisine. So Mathilde de l'Ecotais has devised a unique culinary photography for the book, working intimately with her material, creating an almost uncanny relationship with the products and the realised dishes. A visual voyage, "Planet Marx" is an elemental and minimalist vision of extraordinary images that, like a journey into space, border in the abstract.