Nava Atlas is a woman of many talents. She has written several vegetarian cookbooks, a veg cooking site and a score of vegetarian cooking articles.You can also check out her Nava Atlas artist site to see some of the visual art pieces she's created, especially readable art and altered books.
If you like your art dished up with a healthy helping of sarcasm, though, you'll want to check out her new book, Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife. In this book Nava has combined 1950s cookbook pictures and cooking commentary with tongue-in-cheek faux recipes describing various stages of married life.
The book started out as a collection of stories from several of Nava's friends going through divorces at the same time. Nava expanded it to cover a variety of situations, from newlywed "bliss," to the first children, through to a a possible long-term marriage (or divorce).
Just as an FYI, this is a humor book, not an actual cookbook -- unless you can think of a way to combine a "... small dollop of reality, drizzle of domesticity [and] blueberries..." (from Honeymooners' Bountiful Brunch on p4). If you can -- I'm scared/ impressed by you & please don't invite me over for dinner!
Nava not only gave me my copy of Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife, but an extra signed copy to give one of my readers. So, I will give the extra copy to the first person who leaves a comment asking for it and telling me that you're not able to go to BlogHer '09 (because I hear rumors that there will be some copies of this book available at that conference).






