We’ve always had a wall of cookbooks for as far back as I can remember – some great end to end (Silver Palate, Moosewood), others with a few ‘keepers’ (Taste of Oregon, Bread Book), but no matter how much we were a ‘cookbook house’ I thought that we wrestled too much with what to cook and that pulling out a cookbook frankly seemed like overkill on most nights, even though the recipe we’d want was simple and only a book away!
To help get good recipes in front of people I started illustrating them, freeing them from the confines of the cookbook shelf. My hope was the putting recipes out in the world would help people to see how simple cooking could be – unintimidated by a ‘book’. I made cards and magnets.
I don’t know if it was successful – there’s a good bit of the magnets out there now, but I’m thinking people might actually like their cookbooks.
Here’s a sampler of what I did:
