project 3: a collection

cookbook collecting my mother’s korean soup/stew recipes + memoir collecting vignettes related to each recipe

titled gookbook: “gook” = racial slur in english, “soup” or “nation” in korean

——hand illustrations w/ watercolor pencil & paint, indesign.

 

**this book is horizontal, not accurately reflected on issuu.

***printing adapted for home inkjet printer:

  • pages printed on 5” x 6.5” cardstock to evoke recipe cards: one side = ingredients, the other = instructions

  • each recipe title page printed on vellum

  • vignette card printed on a color reminiscent of the corresponding dish; behind the vellum page

  • book bound with retractable binder rings; recipe cards can be removed for use and more recipes can be added

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