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The coolest. 'Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dining' is a spiral-bound facsimile of the cookbook friends and family of Buckminster Fuller produced for Fuller's 86th birthday in 1982.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ One of our Top 5 Holiday Gift Books for Food Lovers. (But also perfect for architects, designers and far-out thinkers!)⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Constructed around 100 achievable recipes, this book is a glimpse into Fuller’s life, as told by his peers. A few of the recipes are a joyful ode to Fuller’s oeuvre, such as Shirley Sharkey’s “GEODESICANDY,” the “Macrobiotic Diet” by John Cage or Amy Edmondson’s “Allspace-Filling Whole Wheat Bread.”⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ In addition to the facsimile, Fuller's grandson, Jamie Snyder, reflects upon often-overlooked facets of Bucky’s character, as revealed through anecdotes of his relationship to food.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Contributors include: Bil Baird, Peter Brown, John Cage, Lim Chong Keat, Elizabeth Choy, John Ciardi, John Denver, Amy Edmondson, Ted Ehmann, Werner Erhard, Ronald Feldman, John and Isobel Fistere, Medard Gabel, Eugene Garfield, Neva Goodwin, d'Arcy Hayman, Henry J. Heimlich, Miranda Kaiser, Anne Kordus, Kuyoshi Kuromiya, Mae Lee, Paula Martin, Margaret Mead, Karl Menninger, Yehudi Menuhin, Martin and Margy Meyerson, Ann Mintz, Don Moore, Ed Muskie, Libby Newman, Isamu Noguchi, Gerard K. O'Neill, Steve Parker, Eleanor and George Pavloff, Cedric Price, Kariska Pulchalski, Harrison Salisbury, Shirley and Bill Sharkey, Peter Simoneaux, Hester Stearns, Connie Thelander, Thomas Tse-Kwai Zung, Dennis Tyler, Amei Wallach, Hope Watts and Kathryn Withlow.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read more via linkinbio. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Please order from your favorite independent #bookstorehero.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #buckminsterfuller #synergeticstew #cookbook @buckyfullerinst @larsmullerpublishers #holidaygiftbook #holidaygift #buckminsterfullercookbook #dymaxiondining https://www.instagram.com/p/CIOqFJipwCM/?igshid=1v9j2q4gfzc9f

Congrats @larsmullerpublishers on this great review of 'Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dining' @hyperallergic⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ @gyorodyody writes, "Re-issued on the 125th anniversary of Buckminster Fuller’s birth, the cookbook 'Synergetic Stew — Explorations in Dymaxion Dining' was originally presented to Fuller as a gift on his 86th birthday, in 1982, by the staff of the @buckyfullerinst in Philadelphia. It’s not the sort of cookbook you’d buy — then or now — for the recipes, unless you’re desperate for dated instructions for shrimp salad or chocolate mousse. 'Synergetic Stew' is instead a document of a magical, idiosyncratic life, dominated publicly by heady science but filled in equal measure with 'light, wild things.'⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ The book’s contributors are a who’s who of 20th-century art and science, ranging from Ruth Asawa to Margaret Mead, all of whom share a love and fondness for 'Bucky' that emanates from every page. In anecdotes, editorialized recipes, and poems (some written by Fuller himself), we learn of Fuller’s penchant for black tea, consumed “like bunker fuel around the clock at a level just below toxicity”; his long-lasting sobriety; and his proven weight loss strategy of eating almost exclusively steak, spinach, and Jello…" Read more via linkinbio!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Introduction by Fuller's granddaughter, Jamie Snyder.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Please order from your local independent #bookstorehero — many have reopened or offer curbside pickup! ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #buckminsterfuller #synergeticstew #cookbook #buckminsterfullercookbook #dymaxion #dymaxiondining #birthdaygift #giftbook https://www.instagram.com/p/CFzxgD4JSst/?igshid=1myaermm6m0e2

Congrats @larsmullerpublishers on this great review of 'Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dining' in @wallpapermag !!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Simon Mills writes, "The literary nexus of gastronomy and industrial design occupies an esoteric department of the publishing world at the best of times. But Buckminster Fuller’s 'Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dining,' newly-reprinted to celebrate the design scientist, architect, author, poet, engineer and visionary’s 125th anniversary, might just be this delightfully niche category’s most obscure title of all. ⁠⠀ Originally published on Fuller’s 86th birthday, the 'Synergetic Stew' cookbook was compiled as a surprise gift from his friends and admirers (Elizabeth Choy, Isamu Noguchi etc al.) who shared 100 plus recipes, including such choice concoctions as ‘Geodesicandy’, an ‘Allspace-Filling Whole Wheat Bread’, ‘a macrobiotic Diet’ created by indeterminacian musician John Cage and Fuller’s very own recipe for tomato ice cream. (‘Dymaxion Dining’, by the way, being a play on Bucky’s self-styled portmanteau word that fused dynamic maximum, and tension, summing up the goal of the futurist polymath’s pursuit of ‘maximum gain of advantage from minimal energy input.’)⁠⠀ Presented in a workable, stationery-chic, ring binder edition with mostly handwritten recipes, pen-illustrated visuals and a cover graphic that presents a strawberry (or tomato?) rendered in Fuller’s groundbreaking geodesic dome configuration, the book is a heart-warming tribute to the genius of a bonafide design hero…"⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #buckminsterfuller @buckyfullerinst⁠⠀ #synergeticstew #dymaxiondining @stuffiseecycling⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CDRvmOIp2zo/?igshid=1udf905y9kk5t

Happy 125th Birthday, Buckminster Fuller, July 12! These spreads are from 'Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dining,' Lars Müller's new facsimile edition of the cult cookbook produced by friends and family of Buckminster Fuller on the occasion of his 86th birthday in 1981.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ "As I reviewed a copy of the first edition, I was immediately reminded what a delightful publication it is, and especially how it reflects Bucky’s great sense of humor, largely overlooked in the canon of articles and books about him," Fuller's granddaughter Jamie Snyder writes. "As Bucky’s brother-in-law Roger Hewlett reflected elegantly, 'Bucky was always a wellspring of creative things. He would write songs and dialogue, and we would all howl with laughter.… None of this side of Bucky ever gets into the books about him. They make him out to be this great, sober intelligence.… It’s a great pity that the biographies leave out the light, wild things, because they miss a great deal of what Bucky is.'"⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Please order from your local independent #bookstorehero — many are reopening or offering curbside pickup! You can also order from local independents via @bookshop_org or #indiebound⁠⁠⁠. Or order directly from @artbookps1 @artbookhwla or artbook.com.⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #buckminsterfuller #synergeticstew #facsimile #dymaxiondining #cookbook @larsmullerpublishers #bucky⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CCi4GR5pzJN/?igshid=1jhd4grmc81m1