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A Mouth Full: The Re-Cookbook

by Jeanne Criscola

A Cookbook Reimagined as an Archive of Memory

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A Cookbook Reimagined as an Archive of Memory

A Mouth Full: The Re-Cookbook treats the cookbook as more than a collection of dishes: it brings together art, photographs, posters, ephemera, and recipes as traces of family life. Its material ranges from clipped recipes and homemade booklets to online images, linking personal collections with the times and places they came from. Conversations between two artist-colleagues connect food to family stories, special occasions, awkward holidays, and the tensions that gather around inherited recipes. The book’s emphasis on what recipes carry—memory, relationships, and cultural artifacts—places it at the intersection of food and visual art.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People interested in food as a subject for art and photography
  • Readers curious about family memory and the stories attached to recipes
  • Those drawn to cookbooks as designed objects and collections of ephemera

Themes

Food and memoryFamily stories and relationshipsRecipes as cultural artifactsVisual art and photography

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Book overview

A Mouth Full: The Re-Cookbook takes the archetypal cookbook beyond images of food and recipes that make your mouth water. It's a prototype for rethinking what a cookbook evokes and what it can become-a place where the mind can wander through memories of food, recipes, people, and places that make us who we are.

The book concept is a reification of the cookbook and a book of art, photographs, posters, and ephemera centered around two artists and colleagues conversations about family, food, and recipes fused together with memories and the places they came from. As the artists/colleagues examined the evolution of their personal collections-from the clippings, award-winning heirlooms, homespun recipe booklets, to Internet screen grabs-they found relationships to time and space, embedded essences, deep connections, and well-to be perfectly frank-someone to listen to their stories of special occasions, awkward holidays, and family drama, and more. One's memories include a cardboard box salvaged from some gift filled with a random selection of clipped recipes. For the other, recipes and images of winners in 1950's bake-off cookbooks have inspired projects where family secrets and financial gain are traded and revealed.

 

A Mouth Full: The Re-Cookbook is designed and produced by Criscola's design studio, Criscola Design, and is published in partnership as the imprint OctoberWorks.

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