Pecans painted one at a time, halves face up, are the most repeated object of this collection and the one watercolor renders best: each shell is a different brown. Nine ingredients down the column, the bourbon as the only amber, and two hours of standing written into the white the paint left in the middle.
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What this style does
The background is a real watercolor: the color comes in from the edges, bleeds, then dries, and the recipe is laid out in the white it left behind. The ingredients are painted one by one, and the type works for them.
Terracotta, olive, apricot and washed blue on textured paper. A didone for the title, step markers with living edges. The object it imitates is a plate from an artist's book.
Who it is for
Sunday recipes and generous tables, bright rooms, the gift that has to move someone before it informs them.
What is in it
1 pie crust, 2 cups pecan halves, 3 eggs, 1 cup dark brown sugar, 1 cup corn syrup, 4 tbsp unsalted butter, 2 tbsp bourbon, 2 tsp vanilla extract, 1 tsp salt.
The cookbook page, the one you follow standing up while you cook.
The magazine spread, the one you leaf through.
The image you look at from across the room before you read it.
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