Comfort Food
Cookbook
An archive of collected recipes, stories and confessions.
What food greets you late at night when you tiptoe to the kitchen? What is your go to meal for a potluck feast with friends, and what food would you hide if someone walked in the room?
This work explores the secrecy surrounding food, the personal preferences and quirks that shape who we are. Inspired by bizarre and magical conversations surrounding toast toppings, the perfect snack, and food shame, this unconventional recipe book is a celebration of comfort foods.
Gathering secrets and confessions, ‘Comfort Foods’ is a cathartic collection of caring, gentle recipes, printed and bound together to offer soothing to whoever is in need.
Created as part of JiggleNJuice’s Prickly Pear Residency. Find out more on their website and have a look at the work from the other artists!
Also have a listen to their podcast where you can find out more about my work as well as listen to Katie Brown and Niamh Dale chat about theirs!
You can find and listen to the podcast here!
The book can be purchased through my shop, Peacock, or Good Press :)
The making…
The images below show are a small snapshot into the process of making the comfort foods cookbook
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1st Layer of printing (teal)
Binding the first book using the perfect binding machine
Pages stacked up, almost halfway through the printing process.
Cyanotype covers being washed.
Gatherings around comfort foods. Collaberative research.
Aesthetics of good food.
Photo taken in Italy - bananas hanging on the line.
Making sugo with my nonna and papa for the first time in years. They make it every week, their quiet ritual. I recorded the process through writing and video.
I made sugo with my nonna and papa for the first time in years. They make it every week, their quiet ritual. I recorded the process through writing and video.
Working through comfort food imagery.
Pages being layered with colours. Preparing files for printing. The colours turn out differently in the final print.
Images of experiments and work made testing different ideas. Printing bread, beans, teabags etc.
Gatherings around comfort foods. Collaberative research.
Initial pages - Test Print.
Research.
Cover tests.
Page development.
lovely cutlery shapes.
Research
Research.
Layering cyanotype and digital printing.
Test print cyanotype on shiny paper.
Test prints, paper types.
Photo etching plate before going into the acid.
Beans on toast experiments.
Cheesy beanos.
printing with tea bags.
Cavalo nero spaghetti.
Recipes.
Experiments with print techniques.