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How I Learned to Cook is the story of a Midwestern girl who grew up in the 1950s and '60s to become a painter, resident cook, and den mother for a band of artists from around the United States. Betty Woodman, Red Grooms, Robert Kushner and Don Ed Hardy are among those who visit the Colorado studio of Shark's Ink., a fine-art printing and publishing business, to collaborate with Master Printer and print guru, Bud Shark, and to eat at the table of artist-cook Barbara Shark. After Iowa, Albuquerque, Fargo, Venice and London, Barbara and Bud landed on a hillside, below red sandstone cliffs, on the Front Range of the Rockies, and made an art-full life. With paintings by Barbara and recipes from her culinary adventures, How I Learned to Cook tells the tale of a woman finding her way in the complicated world of art and domestic life. How I Learned to Cook, combines memoir, art book and cookbook, and contains reproductions of 85 of the author's paintings and drawings, along with 105 of her recipes accompanying a narrative recounting her journey Barbara to assist her partner in establishing an internationally renowned print shop.

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