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Photo of all the ingredients made to create a sandwich separated and laid out on tin foil.

Sammys

Homie House Press, Adriana Monsalve & Caterina Ragg, 2018.
 
Sammys is a project that comes together at the intersection of food and identity. The author's investigate, create, and document the sandwich intake of a variety of individuals.
 
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A gingham clamshell box filled with cards with recipes written on them. Most of the cards are in the box, but some were pulled out and displayed to the left of it.

My Grandma's Recipes

David Horvitz, 2011.
 
My Grandma’s Recipes is a collection of 35 recipes that artist David Horvitz’s grandmother has collected throughout her life.                                                                                                                                        

 

A book spread where the left page has an image of a food tower that mimics a cactus and the right is the recipe to make it.

Les Dîners de Gala

Salvador Dali; translated by J. Peter Moore, 1973.
 
Le Buffet de la gare de Lyon have graciously bestowed upon the reader some highly gastronomical recipes which make the renown of the French cuisine.                                

 

A cookbook open to show two recipes. To the left of the book is a separate poster with numbered photos of dishes that correspond to recipes in the book.

Hundred Daughters, Hundred Patience, Hundred Meals

Kevin WY Lee, 2019.
 
The photo book and the cookbook, the road and the kitchen, serve as a hundred metaphors for the author's father's life and family's history of migration and diaspora - from the rice farms of Kaiping in South China, to the sugar cane fields of Fiji in the South Pacific, to the hawker centres of Singapore in Southeast Asia.

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