Sure, “jello salad” will be served and your uncle might make an off-color joke. But will there be a taxidermy peacock at your holiday meal? This year, as in all years past, my family will sit down for ...

More than two decades ago, I knew Washington, D.C. was home when I saw Salvador Dalí's "The Sacrament of the Last Supper" hanging in the National Gallery of Art. I had traveled thousands of miles and ...

When he was 69 years old, Salvador Dalí published a book. Of course, because he was Salvador Dalí, this was not just any book. It was a cookbook—a cookbook unlike any before (or after, for that matter ...

Food, for Salvador Dalí, was always food for thought. “The most philosophic organs man possesses are his jaws,” he solemnly informs, in The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942), because “it is at the ...

Dalí's 1973 cookbook "Les Diners De Gala" is back in print for the first time in more than 40 years. Care for some toffee with pine cones? When was the last time you chowed down on veal cutlets ...

If ever you needed a recipe for “Peacock à l’Impériale dressed and surrounded by its court”—which includes a whole taxidermied peacock placed with a flourish upon the plate—now is the time, as ...

One might imagine that a cookbook bearing the name of Salvador Dalí would be filled with appetizing dishes like “Shattered Lightbulb In Béarnaise Sauce” and “Crème De Soldier’s Headbone.” But that ...

If you're of a certain age or if you love surrealist art, then you probably remember Salvador Dali. He was widely known for his celebrity persona, his pointy mustache and his canvases filled with ...

More than two decades ago, I knew Washington, D.C., was home when I saw Salvador Dali’s “The Sacrament of the Last Supper” hanging in the National Gallery of Art. I had traveled thousands of miles and ...