Its pages are filled with creations like Sole Survivor (baked fish fillets with shrimp sprinkled on top), Saturday Chicken (chicken, paprika, cream soup) and Fake Hollandaise sauce (mayonnaise, milk, salt, pepper and lemon juice, accompanied by a chorus of "Gloomy Sunday" in the background).
The next three "creations" fill this universe with the different forms of life, concluding with the creation of man and woman, where the Genesis myth departs from its Babylonian models which have men and women as divine and equal (rather than woman as an adjunct of man – a concept in bizarre opposition to tens of thousands of years of veneration of the Mother Goddess).
Bert Hölldobler, an Arizona State University professor who won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize with E. O. Wilson for their definitive book, "The Ants," said by e-mail, "I have been asked repeatedly to help artists to fill their creations with ants.
This is his world, and he works in a subterranean studio filled with his creations, dark wood furnishings and all manner of racing-related items such as photos, jockey silks, saddles and dozens of books, including some featuring the work of the late Richard Stone Reeves, perhaps the most famous equine artist and an inspiration to Pauly.
Its creations filled with sticky honey and ricotta cheese have direct descendants in the cafés of nearby Naples today.
Her sleek creations, filled with the architectural, slightly alien shapes of her succulents, would not be out of place in a room furnished with midcentury modern pieces.
But perhaps none of these projects is quite as impressive as their own home, an ultracolorful space filled with some creations from the couple's free-thinking fashion and interior design label, People of the Labyrinths.
But every few years, tempted by her effusive descriptions of elaborate creations filled with melting apricots, I break out of my happy rut and whip up a recipe or two.
Just down the hill from Galeria Marges-U, 35-year-old Gemma Ridameya runs a very different type of gallery, filled with wearable creations hewn from silver and rock.
When Robert Battle became artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater last year, he gave up a dance company named after himself and his works, and his principal job changed from making his own art to tending a repertory filled with the creations of others.
But hidden behind its beige facade is a workshop filled with weird creations coming to life, and an office decorated with previous on-screen triumphs: a dog in a full-body plaster cast from There's Something About Mary; John Travolta's female fat-suit from Hairspray; the titular robot from the sci-fi dramedy Robot & Frank.
