Les diners de Gala

When six years old I wanted to be a cook, Dali wrote. Sixty-eight years old his ambition was fullfilled in the shape of a book: Les dîners de Gala, originally published in 1973 in the French language, consists of twelve chapters to which Dali gave the following titles:

1 Les caprices pincés princiers

2 Les cannibalismes de l’automne

3 Les suprêmes de malaises lilliputiens

4 Les entre-plats sodomisés

5 Les spoutniks astiqués d’asticots statistiques

6 Les panaches panachés

7 Les chairs monarchiques

8 Les montres molles ½ sommeil

9 L’atavisme désoxyribonucléique

10 Les “je mange GALA”

11 Les pios nonoches

12 Les délices petits martyrs

12 “Hors-Texte” specially designed and signed by the artist. 56 recipes illustrated in color, 21 of which were prepared by the leaders of French gastronomy: Lasserre, La Tour d’Argent, Maxim’s and Le Buffet de la Gare de Lyon.