American designers team up with Martha Stewart to launch cook book

Over 100 designer members of the Council of Fashion Desiners America are collating thier favourite recipes along with illustrations of the dishes for charity. The group including Carolina Herrera (pommes toupinel), Zac Posen (butterscotch cookies) and Calvin Klein’s Francisco Costa (a whole dinner party) to name just three have submitted some of their favourite and most treasured recipes, as well as illustrations to match - organised in to a cook book with a forward by Martha Stewart, that will go on sale in September.

Here's hoping the British Fashion Council will be inspired to create one too. We’d love to see Gareth Pugh’s version on the Battenberg Cake, Chris Kane showing us all how to deep fry a Mars bar and Stella’s veggie sausages and mash.

By Laurelle Gilbert

Posted 19th February 2009