Take a Look at Andy Warhol Cookbook Illustrations From 1961

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Famed pop art icon Andy Warhol is perhaps best remembered for soup cans and Marilyn Monroe, but before the eccentric artist gained fame for his paintings, he worked as an commercial illustrator.

To celebrate what would have been Warhols 84th birthdan An August 6th, lo looked back somsome of his earliest work, published in a 1961 cookbook.

The recipe tome, Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Cook Book, predatWarWarhol's first solo pop art exhibition in New York City. The illustrations include simple sketches of... [via Mashable]