16948 Wed Jun 27 18:05:31 -0700 2001 6 33 Food Media and News 0 48458 our reknowned sacramento painter, wayne thiebaud, was interviewed over a ritzy breakfast by writer regina schrambling recently and the artice about their time together was in today's NY Times. this restaurant, as it turned out was not where he would have chosen. he expressed a "dedicated diner's cynacism" (read chowish thought) about the place and "finally admitted that if he had chosen the site, we would've be tucking into cereal with snappier service at Three Guys, a diner a couple blocks away..." "Throughout breakfast he involked the timeless link between food and art..." he goes on to talk about the parallels of "utter simplicity" between the evolution of his art and that of the pure types of food creations alice waters is known for. midway through the article there is a paragraph full of descriptors, painting a picture with words this time about thiebaud's fascination with and understanding of food. "He understands what makes a simple layer cake more than sugar and shortening, what makes it evoke the most powerful memories and longing, and what makes a bowl of soup not just the picture of nourishment but a vision in spinach green or tomato red that almost takes you back to the warm aromas at your grandmother's table. even if you never met your grandmother." all in all, i felt i'd run into another, albiet more talented than most, chowhound. here's to us all Wed Jun 27 18:05:31 -0700 2001 0 Rochelle 1 48464 Rochelle, thanks so much for sharing that with us. One of my friends studied under him at Davis. I'm well familiar with his paintings of food, but didn't know that his attraction was other than to intersting shapes and play of color. Yes, he's a definitely a chowhound. Wed Jun 27 20:18:32 -0700 2001 48458 0 Melanie Wong 1 48588 Thiebaud contributed drawings and a jacket painting to my wife's book, Chez Panisse Desserts, almost twenty years ago. Mon Jul 08 21:01:00 -0700 2002 48458 0 Charles Shere 2 4659431 Your wife's book has the world's best recipe for reine de saba style chocolate cake in it. Wed May 06 10:39:20 -0700 2009 48588 13709 buttertart 1 4658405 When I was a student of Wayne Thiebaud in the 1970s at UC Davis, he described food and spoke of restaurants/diners/hole-in-the-wall places he LOVED to dine. When he laid on the paint in his diner window series, the food looked good enough to dig in! If anyone gets a chance to hear Thiebaud speak about food, art, or life, take it! Wed May 06 05:45:26 -0700 2009 48458 159916 susannatuttapanna 1 4658867 That NY Times article's from 2001: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/27/dining/the-painter-of-pies-knows-the-real-thing-too.html This year, he's got a show of food paintings up in SF at Paul Thiebaud Gallery through June 27. http://www.paulthiebaudgallery.com/shows/thiebaud_show09.html Wed May 06 08:24:52 -0700 2009 48458 11369 Robert Lauriston 2 4659864 Another ancient thread gets resurrected! Speaking of which, the mention of Wayne Thiebaud reminded me of photorealist painter John Baeder. Is there any doubt that that guy is a chowhound? Wed May 06 12:51:42 -0700 2009 4658867 12829 Bob W