PHOTOS: Ikea's New Baking Book

Grub Street:

Everyone's favorite homewares purveyor Ikea has just published a collection of baking recipes called Hembakat är Bäst (Homemade Is Best). Sure, knowing how to make Princess Cake is fine and dandy, but the volume is illustrated with some of the most inventive cookbook photography we've ever seen: Styled by Evelina Bratell and photographed by Carl Kleiner, the pristine arrangements of ingredients are so stark and geometric that they verge on the abstract. The good news is that the book is completely free; the bad news is that the only place you can get it is in the kitchen section of Ikea stores -- in Sweden. Read on for more of Kleiner's stunning images, and see if you can guess what the recipes are for.

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Comments

[Renshai]

03:36 PM on 11/04/2010

Gosh darnit I want one of these cookbooks!

I love looking through my cookbooks... always so full of ideas.

[emily00011]

12:12 AM on 09/27/2010

This article is wrong. The books are only "free" if you buy an appliance or set of cupboards!
I've seen the book, it is lovely, but not worth a microwave.

[mlaiuppa]

04:51 PM on 09/26/2010

And if you don't live in Sweden....how do you get a copy of the book?

[naschkatze]

11:13 PM on 09/26/2010

Try Jessica's Biscuit on-line catalog. I got Yottam Ottolenghi's British book from them.

[Alvarask]

12:11 AM on 09/26/2010

I'm not such a big fan of Ikea, but this cookbook looks like a work of art.

[susankhbelen]

03:13 PM on 09/25/2010

We are such IKEA fans!
Can't wait to get to a city with one again.....

[Smartenup012]

12:40 PM on 09/25/2010

Really love,love,love IKEA! what a great idea for a cookbook...very impressed with all of their products!

[hulagirrrl]

06:30 AM on 09/25/2010

Ahhhh, I love IKEA.