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A Tasty Lookbook: Hot Designer Cookbook Debuts at Fashion Week

This time of year in New York, the entire city heats up with Fashion Week excitement. And one new title combines our love of style with our passion for food: ASSOULINE's American Fashion Cookbook: 100 Designers Best Recipes.

This chic little cookbook features favorite recipes and original illustrations by 100 American fashion designers, including Diane von Furstenberg, Isaac Mizrahi, Carolina Herrera, Donna Karan, Tory Burch, Derek Lam, Nicole Miller and many more. Chock-full of interesting recipes and prep tips, with a foreword by Martha Stewart, it's a special look at a rarely seen side of the fashion world (yes—the side that loves to eat!)

As Steven Kolb (executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America) writes in the book's introduction, "Fashion designers are masters of creating a mood, vibe, look and story with fabric, trimmings, thread and accessories...Their visions extend to how they live, where they vacation, how they set a table, and yes, what they eat...And creating a recipe is not so far removed from creating a garment."

And in honor of Fashion Week, Behind the Burner is sharing these designer recipes all week in our blog, so check in regularly for our fashionistas' favorite foods. And grab your own copy of the book at assouline.com.

American Fashion Cookbook: 100 Designers Best Recipes
Edited by Lisa Marsh
Foreword by Martha Stewart
Introduction by Steven Kolb
ASSOULINE Publishers
80 illustrations - hardcover
$34.95