"A beautifully rendered art-cookbook." --Newsday

"Will transport you."--Travel & Leisure

"Takes the reader on a fascinating journey.., a rare glimpse into a wondrous moment in time."--Country Home

AT THE AUBERGE RAVOUX,inatinyartists’village twenty miles from Paris, Vincent Van Gogh experienced a burst of creativity, producing some seventy works in an astounding seventy days. The auberge, his last home, operates today as the Maison de Van Gogh, and little has changed in the intervening century: visitors are still treated to the comforting, delicious regional cuisine that he would have enjoyed in 1890. Van Gogh’s Table is an intimate view into this world, as revealing as sharing poulet and potatoes sautees with the artist himself: fifty recipes; a richly detailed history of this period of the artist’s life; a fascinating examination of the central role of the cafe in French culture; and carefully selected engravings, postcards, letters, and paintings, all woven together into a singular perspective on a man and a place, during a remarkable moment in history.

Van Gogh’s Last Home

by Dominique-Charles Janssens

PART ONE

A Private Life in Public Plao

by Fred Leeman

A Place to Live, a Place to Work

True Friends, Mere Acqaintances

Give [Is Our Daily Bread

A Remedy Against Suicide

The Auberge Ravoux

by Julia R. Galosy

PART TWO

Recipes from Van Gogh’s Table

by Alexandra Leaf

A New Home in Auvers

Cuisine Populaire 

Fields of Wheat and Flowering Peas

Cuisine du Terroir 

Sunday Lunches with Dr. Gachet

Cuisine Bourgeoise 

Notes 

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index