Art Cooking: How to Eat like Vincent Van Gogh

The Art Assignment is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Urist Green, and in this episode they show how you can use what you have available now to eat like artist Vincent Van Gogh did.

The short video is a culinary journey through the life and eating habits of artist Vincent Van Gogh in four courses: potatoes, bread, absinthe, and a decent meal.

The featured Van Gogh recipes include:

  • Stewed Potatoes, reprinted in Food in Motion: The Migration of Foodstuffs and Cookery Techniques
  • Pain Noir from Bernard Clayton’s New Complete Book of Breads
  • How to Serve Absinthe Correctly
  • Stewed Chicken with Mustard Cream Sauce from Van Gogh’s Table: At the Auberge Ravoux

The Art Assignment explores art and art history through the lens of things happening today