It’s all a lie! Fashion people really DO like to eat, and even cook. Some of them start from scratch, others just pour from a box — and others, true to form, use just a dash of their favorite tipple.

Many amazing recipes come to life in the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s (CFDA) new American Fashion Cookbook, out now from Assouline.

Hot off the presses, this is actually the second cookbook the CFDA has come out with. Back in 1990 it compiled a heap of recipes, xeroxed them off, and stapled them together to be sold at its 7th on Sale Fundraiser. This sleek new tome, edited by foodie Lisa Marsh with a foreword by Martha Stewart, had a tad more planning to it.

Marsh was elated to let us know that “the recipes are really good!” She was fortunate enough to taste-test many of them and was impressed that so many designers put as much effort into their degustations as they do their dresses. All the art, it’s worth noting, is original to the book, and much of it will be auctioned off in the future to benefit the CFDA.

I interviewed two designers to hear what inspired them to submit their recipes. Hat designer Rod Keenan explained that he got into cooking and nutrition after quitting smoking. “My nutritionist, Dedra Britt, raved about raw corn,” he told me, “so we made up a recipe with the spices I had just hauled back from Morocco — and voilà, raw corn salad!”

Handbag designer Rafe Totengco simply went back to his roots: “Halo-halo is a favorite dessert in the Philippines. It tastes amazing, and when I was a child it was what we had after tea before a siesta under the mangrove trees at my house. My family makes fun of me whenever I go home because it is the first thing I ask for.”

There are two recipes from iconic designers who are no longer with us: Bill Blass and Geoffrey Beene. I inquired and found out from Steven Kolb, executive director of the CFDA, that Blass’s meat loaf was the centerpiece of the original cookbook and that he was quite famous for his recipe — he even included it in his autobiography. And Beene was always a huge supporter of the CFDA and won many of its awards — he was a quintessential American designer — and besides, who wouldn’t like a dessert called prune whip?

Needless to say, with all these fashionable new recipes, this fall’s dinner parties are sure to be rife with “who made what.”