Gefilte of Fighting Fish Seared Roebuck and Other Recipes

Andy Warhol did not cook. But he did order out well. And so when he decided to do a cookbook in the ‘50s he got an interior designer (Suzie Frankfurt) to help with the recipes and included entries that went like this: “Piglet. Contact Trader Vic’s and order a 40 pound suckling pig to serve 15. Have Hanley take the Cadillac to the side entrance and receive the pig at exactly 6:45. . . . “ There’s more, but not much more. Other recipes do involve some cooking: For hard-boiled eggs, the book instructs that the eggs be immersed in the water at precisely the same time.

What this book has that others don’t is, of course, drawings by Warhol--in the style of his early shoe sketches. Actually, only the outlines of the drawings were by Warhol; assistants colored in the pictures and his mother hand-lettered the recipes.

This year, a facsimile of the book--called “Wild Raspberries” as a play on the Ingmar Bergman film “Wild Strawberries”--was released by Bulfinch Press ($19.95). It should sell a lot better than the first printing. Warhol and Frankfurt couldn’t persuade any store to sell the book so it was given away to friends for Christmas.