2008 Surreal Gourmet Calendar

$12.99 USD, $16.99 CAN

Off the Eaten Path: inspired recipes for adventurous cooks: This is a collection of recipes and culinary anecdotes divided into six distinctive adventures: • extreme cuisine recipes and detailed instructions for cooking in your dishwasher, on your car engine, with your iron, and in a brown paper lunch bag. • surreal meals cocktail appetizers and meals concocted from one set of ingredients—but presented to look like something completely different. • not luck dinner parties just like a pot luck dinner—but tastier! Seven friends bring a designated ingredient (and a bottle of wine), and you assemble the meal. • cinematic suppers cocktails, spiced popcorn, and main courses inspired by the author's five favorite food-related movies—to be enjoyed while watching the video. • winner dinners 5 deceptively simple menus for special occasions—all killer, no filler. • enlightening morsels inspiring, money-saving advice about wine, essential utensils, dysfunctional kitchens, and guerrilla shopping tactics.

$20.00

The Surreal Gourmet Entertains: Hi-fun, low-stress dinner parties for 6 ­ 12 people is a celebration of dinner parties for everyone who appreciates the spice of life. The recipes are all unique combinations of fresh ingredients, big flavor and eye-catching presentation. The instructions are disarmingly simple and an evening's worth of thematically selected music-to-dine-by is recommended for each entree. Every recipe includes a relevant sous-chef assignment for that guest who insists on helping out in the kitchen and additional steps for the adventurous. Other highlights include The Advanced Adventure Club ­ a selection of truly adventurous meals (check out the all-Elvis evening), and 50 surreal images.

$16.95 { Currently Sold Out }

The Surreal Gourmet: Real food for pretend chefs is a humorous user-friendly guide to fine and fun dining for two to four people, punctuated by the Bob Blumer's whimsical illustrations. The book includes a recommended album-to-cook-by for each recipe, wine suggestions, a space to keep track of what your friends do and don't eat, and a list of 10 ways to avoid making dessert (#10, have sex instead). All recipes are designed for food lovers who want to cook well with a minimal effort and sacrifice. Each dish is made from fresh ingredients - available at most grocery stores - innovatively combined with generous measures of fresh herbs and spices.

$14.95

Adventures in Entertaining Limited edition lithograph. Printed on decal-edged, fine paper. Signed and numbered. 22" x 26".

$50.00

Orange Twist Blueprint Limited edition silk-screen/collage. Printed on fiber-flecked neutral PH, recycled paper. Signed and numbered. 18" x 20".

$50.00

Chez Bob's Caesar Salad Limited edition, hand-tinted silk-screen. Signed and numbered. 23" x 30".

$75.00

Hollywood Farmer's Market Poster 18" x 24"

$15.00

Information and prices of original illustrations and objets d'art from all three Surreal Gourmet books can be obtained by calling:

1 800 FAUX PAS (1 800 328 9727)

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Canadian Shipments: $8.95 per unit

Posters: Add $10 per unit

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