Wild Raspberries
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| Author | Andy Warhol & Suzie Frankfurt |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Andy Warhol |
| Publisher | Seymour Berlin |
Publication date | 1959 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 19 |
Wild Raspberries is an illustrated cookbook created in 1959 by American artist Andy Warhol and socialite Suzie Frankfurt. Produced before Warhol's rise as a leading Pop artist and Frankfurt's prominence as an interior designer, the book offers a satirical take on haute cuisine and gourmet culture, parodying mid-20th-century cookbooks through playful recipes and whimsical visuals.
Originally self-published in a limited edition of 34 copies, the book remained relatively obscure until it was reissued in 1997 by Little, Brown & Company under its Bulfinch Press imprint.
In 1959, while expecting her second child, Suzie Frankfurt encountered Andy Warhol's watercolors at Serendipity. Impressed by his work, she arranged a lunch meeting at the Plaza Hotel's Palm Court, with her husband, Stephen Frankfurt, acting as an intermediary.[1] The meeting marked the beginning of a close friendship between Frankfurt and Warhol.[1]
Going out for lunch and shopping together soon became a ritual. During one of their outings, Frankfurt suggested to Warhol that "we had to write a funny cookbook for people who don't cook."[1] She later recalled that her mother, "a hostess sine qua non," had emphasized the importance of entertaining, inspiring her to follow suit just as French cookbooks were becoming fashionable. "I tried to make sense of them," she said. "'Make a béchamel sauce,' they'd say. I didn't even know what that was."[1] This led to their collaboration Wild Raspberries, a playful homage to Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film Wild Strawberries.[2]
