The Favorite Food Recipes of Famous Photographers

Back in the late 1970s, the George Eastman Museum asked a group of photographers to share their favorite recipes and food photos to create a cookbook. Now, four decades later, it has finally been published as The Photographer’s Cookbook.

Put together by museum curator Lisa Hostetler, the book contains photos and recipes by some of the biggest names in photography. You’ll find George Eastman’s “Lemon Meringue Pie,” Ansel Adams’ “Poached Eggs in Beer,” Richard Avedon’s “Royal Pot Roast,” William Eggleston’s “Cheese Grits Casserole,” and more.

“The book provides a time capsule of contemporary photographers of the 1970s—many before they made a name for themselves—as well as a fascinating look at how they depicted food, family, and home, taking readers behind the camera and into the hearts, and stomachs of some of photography’s most important practitioners,” the book’s description states.

Here’s a selection of the photos and recipes found in the book:

Ansel Adams’s Poached Eggs in Beer

Ralph Steiner’s Zwei Vier Minuten Eier

William Eggleston’s Cheese Grits Casserole

Imogen Cunningham’s Borscht

Robert Heinecken’s Serious Martini

Mark Klett’s Home-Brew Beer

Barbara Morgan’s Global Bread Cake

Neal Slavin: Nylen’s Frankfurters in Full Dress

Arthur Tress’s Sweet and Sour Broccoli

Stephen Shore’s Key Lime Pie Supreme

The Photographer’s Cookbook is an 160-page cookbook containing 50 black-and-white photos and 4 color photos.

You can purchase the book today for $20.