4️⃣ Food + Design (part one of many)
Happy Friday!
Let’s talk about food. I’m willing to bet your food habits are different from before the pandemic. Maybe you’re baking some artisan loafs with sourdough starter you got from the yoga instructor of your local farmer. Maybe you’ve mastered your morning scrambled egg or taken pride in learning a new recipe. Maybe you’re starting to try outdoor, distanced dining.
The point is, our relationship with food is changing, and we have to think about it whether we like it or not. This week I wanted to think about the creative ways people are innovating in the food space, the challenges chefs in the industry face, while mixing in some food-porn-style, low-effort content.
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🎨🍳 Graphic design meets trendy restaurant recipes
Family Meal is my DREAM side project. A community of designers and illustrators that create unique recipe “posters” from some of the top restaurants in NY while raising money for supporting these businesses curing the pandemic. It’s playful, it’s informative, and more importantly, it’s not trying to make 💸 - it’s grassroots.
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👨🏻🍳👩🏾🍳 The privilege of being a white chef: being able to cook whatever you want
Adding to news of racist practices at our previously-favorite test kitchen, Bon Appetite, Sohla El-Waylly, a Bengali-American chef discusses the shackles of being a POC in the kitchen. We are expected to cook our “own” food, based on the color of our skin, not taken seriously for attempts at making French or new American cuisines. White chefs, on the other hand, seem to have free rein over any cuisine in the world, borderline-appropriating cultures they don’t fully understand while creating their trendy restaurants.
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📦🌮 A hilariously detailed look at categorizing food
The image describes it all. If you want a laugh, walk through this interactive site of how all food can be categorized based on its geometry.
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More cool sh*t
🍛Lucas Sin and the chefs at Junzi in NY have been running a successful new pop-up amidst a pandemic. How? It includes delivery, instagram live, and some supportive fans.
🍙 If you’re not into ASMR videos of people eating Pringles in your ear, here’s an equally calming Japanese food channel called Peaceful Cuisine. Sit back and relax.
🍰 If you want to be upset at something, but also not lose hope in our democratic fabric, observe the trend of people making cakes that look like real things…like raw chicken breasts!!
🥄 If you really want to be spammed about food news, The Spoon is a great food publication with the trendiest of trends!
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Thanks for reading!
Anand