Allergens
Finding Inspiration within Limitations
Behind The Scenes
What is the opposite perspective? These works speak for the kitchen and their point of view, specifically rooted in a story that began with artichoke plants
A subtle inconvenience when preparing a culinary dish for print: Allergens
Although artichokes are not an allergen, they were the fuel for this project, which began with the art. Drawing from the parallels between food and art, the process of making paper had crossovers with the kitchen, right down to the literal sense of using a food dehydrator in making paper out of artichoke stalks that came from the garden at The Mustard Seed.
The beauty found in the emotion of enthusiasm is that it can be contagious. A new starter dish came after weeks of slow process and filling the halls with the religious scent of dried artichokes.
Chicken,
Violet Artichokes,
Jerusalem crisp,
Smoked olive oil.
When it came time to type it out into the menu, I recalled a story the head chef had shared with me, one that expressed his dismay at allergens.
The takeout boxes symbolise the tedious work involved in creating a new dish and writing about it. In a restaurant of a certain caliber, it isn't customary to take food away, and it's also not customary to alter the chef's menu to suit your liking. However, in the case of allergens, it has to be done. The takeout boxes are crafted out of paper porcelain, and instead of tissue, I had used leftover artichoke paper pulp, giving a more fibrous texture and varying translucencies.
