Description

101 Productions, 1975. Paperback, 96 pp.; 21 x 21 cm (square); hand-lettered throughout and illustrated with the author's line drawings printed in black, orange-red and tan. Cover photograph by Erik Denzer. In Good+ condition. Pictorial paper covers with light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild shelf wear, and a few small specks to front cover near top edge. Rear cover toned with light scuffing and soiling; original $2.95 price sticker on rear cover. Heavier toning to spine. Binding tight. Pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked. A hand-lettered guide to sculpting bread, with recipes and step-by-step drawings for figures made from basic, super, spinach, wheat, tomato, beet and pie doughs: a mermaid, lionized loaf, hippopumpernickel, curry-herb whale, stegosaurus rye, sweet dragon ring, beet griffin, owl, crocodiles and peace pie, among others. Includes dough basics, kneading, oven know-how, and decoration and sculpture tools. Wiseman was an artist in many media (painting, kinetic sculpture, hooked tapestries) whose work is in the David Rockefeller and Joseph Hirshhorn collections. She learned bread making while living in a French bakery as a student in Paris, and Life magazine gave two pages to one of her bread sculptures in its last issue (December 15, 1972). Contents: Bread Is; Bread Story; Basic Dough; Super Dough; How-To; Dough Logic; Rule of Thumb; Kneading; Invent Your Own Dough; Know Your Oven; Know-How Guide; Decoration and Sculpture Tools; Thrifty Bread; Flat Bread, Unleavened Wheat Thins; Flat Bread, Leavened; Pocket Fish; Snake Rolls; Owl; Stegosaurus Rye; Mermaid (spinach dough); Lionized Loaf; Hippopumpernickel (wheat); Fertility; Curry-Herb Whale; Catch-Her-in-the-Rye; Pink Angel (tomato dough); Sweet Dragon Ring; Beet Griffin (beet dough); Cinnamon Lamb Curls; Hottentarts (tabasco-garlic); Beetle Buns and Turtle Scones; Crocodiles; Peace Pie (pie dough); Soda Fly (quick, no-rise); Glad Hands; Tattooed Friendship; Occasions; No Mistakes; Index; Biographical Notes.