Lee Miller, A Life With Food, Friends and Recipes

Lee Miller, A Life With Food, Friends and Recipes Synopsis

Much has been written about Lee Miller the model, surrealist and fashion photographer and Lee Miller the WWII correspondent but less familiar is Lee Miller the gourmet cook. A woman of many lives and mistress of her own re-invention, Lee Miller did everything wholeheartedly and with an imaginative flair. Lee Miller, A Life with Food, Friends & Recipes explores Miller's life and personality in the context of food. Swapping her camera for the kitchen, creativity hit Lee's table with beautifully prepared dishes such as Muddles Green Green Chicken, Upside Down Onion Cake and Pink Heaven. She relished dishes and ingredients from all over the world and started to collect cookery books, eventually causing her home to be over-run with books and magazines of recipes, so much so that her husband built her a room for her cookbooks. Miller also used cooking as a way to cope with the difficulties of her war experiences. What she had witnessed during the war as a correspondent touched her deeply and she suffered from what would today be diagnosed as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Through cooking she could build bridges, heal old wounds and empower other women. Author and Lee Miller's granddaughter Ami Bouhassane sees her re- incarnation as a gourmet chef as her longest battle and most extraordinary personal accomplishment in every sense. Lee Miller, A Life with Food, Friends & Recipes was awarded gold in the cookbook category of the 2017 Independent Publishers Awards in America