Rare Andy Warhol cookbook Wild Raspberries goes to auction

Collection of recipes written in 1959 with Suzie Frankfurt to poke fun at fashionable haute cuisine is one of only 34 copies made

A rare self-published cookbook by Andy Warhol, in which the pop artist who gave iconic status to the humble Campbell’s Soup tin pokes fun at the lavish recipes of the 1950s, is set to go up for auction later this month.

Warhol created the cookbook, Wild Raspberries, with the interior decorator Suzie Frankfurt in 1959, before he shot to fame with his paintings of soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles in 1962. The friends set out to parody the haute cuisine of the time, coming up with recipes such as “Omlet Greta Garbo”, which is “always to be eaten alone in a candlelit room”, “Gefilte of Fighting Fish” (“immerse them in sea water and allow them to do battle until they completely bone each other. Take the fillets, stir in white wine and serve slightly chilled”), and “Seared Roebuck”: “It is important to note that roebuck shot in ambush is infinitely better than roebuck killed after a chase.”

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