Frida Kahlo and her pet deer, Granizo, 1939, photograph by Nickolas Muray
In the book Frida’s Fiestas, Kahlo’s step-daughter Guadalupe Rivera reminisces about unpacking the groceries with Frida after a visit to the market,
“At one point she said to me: ‘Look at this watermelon…! It’s an amazing fruit. On the outside, it’s a wonderful green color, but on the inside, there’s this strong and elegant red and white. The pitaya is a bright red, like a pomegranate sprinkled with black dots. Then there’s the pitahaya. It is fuchsia on the outside and hides the subtlety of a whitish-gray pulp flecked with little black spots that are its seeds inside. This is a wonder! Fruits are like flowers: they speak to us in a provocative language and teach us things that are hidden.” (p.24)
Kahlo later arranged these fruits into a still life painting titled The Bride Frightened at Seeing Life Opened. For her life and art intermingled, she decorated her table and her tresses with fruits and flowers in the same way they were scattered across her canvases. Like the fruit, her art teaches us – the viewers – about her hidden things, thoughts, fears, and emotions.
This is the fifth and final entry in a series of posts examining the the still life paintings by Frida Kahlo. Click the paintings above or the recipe links below to visit the individual posts for more information about Frida.
{Frida Kahlo’s Menú Festivo}
appetizer
Shellfish Ceviche
bread
Jalapeño Cheddar Cornbread
salad
Pico de Gallo
main
Roasted Chicken with Pumpkin Mole
dessert
Coconut Milk Ice Cream with Caramelized Papaya & Lime
What a great post. Thanks for the quote & the lovely pics and paintings. Just marvelous.
I love Mexican food, and your menu has my mouth watering!
Great round-up Megan. I’ve really enjoyed each post.
BEAUTIFUL!! I send a sincere applause to all of your efforts! Everything looks beautiful! What a great lineup of Mexican food.
Yummy! Mexican food is so flavorful and delicious! A great meal.
Cheers,
Rosa
The food photos are all beautiful, but my favourite is the ice cream one – lovely and simple! (The awesome dish doesn’t hurt either!)
Aww Frida Kahlo had a pet deer-I had no idea but somehow I want one too! :) It’s a lovely looking menu!
A wonderful menu! I hope they do a Frida Khalo exhibit here in London sometime. I have never seen any of her works in person.
Thanks for your advice on wordpress. I think thats what I’m going to end up doing.
*kisses* HH
That cornbread sounds yum! Bookmarking the recipe :)
I love the round-up. If any could throw Frida a party, it’s you. She would be proud. And I will certainly be making that mole…it is basically my dream come true.
Thanks for the menu! I also feel that there is a lack of Mexican cuisine presence in this country. So posts like this are wonderful :)
I remember checking this book out of the library twice while I was at culinary school in London. I loved it so much, and this post brought back memories. I might have to buy it now!
ps: beautiful photos!
I love that Kahlo found beauty in fruit. Fruit is beautiful! And that deer pic is super cute.
Beautiful menu, beautiful post. And that picture of Frida just melts my heart…that little deer is so cute!!
Love the images and the words… you capture Kahlo so well…the fascination and attraction with objects– taking them from the commonplace and setting them into the rare so you see them with new eyes… that was her genius.. that and being a natural visual mythologist! Wonderful post… I made your pumpkin mole… it was great!
Whoa! I have always loved your round-up menus… but this is just particularly pretty. Love the juxtaposed shells.
This is a wonderful blog. I am so glad to have stumbled upon it. Your posts are works of art itself. I must buy Frida’s Fiestas! Thank you for sharing.
Love……the collage! Superb combo
Great menu, now I need to order :))
A beautiful collection of recipes – what a gorgeous menu.
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