HeyJaredThe Illustrated Kitchen
Every month, I pick a dish with a story behind it, and I illustrate the whole thing. The history, the politics, the strange accidents that got it into your kitchen. Then I make it into a collage. I'm Anna Lena Feunekes, an author-illustrator from NL.
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Your father smelt of elderberries, but so did every witch trial (+ autumn roasted vegetables with elderflower dressing) (opens the original)
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Hello everyone,If there’s one thing that makes me the most basic of basic, the epitome of vanilla (or perhaps cinnamon), it’s that I’m a millennial woman who LOVES autumn. I happen to write a Substack about food history and recipe illustration that has gotten slightly out of hand, and this time I wanted to write about something October-coded, but without the pumpkin spice. So after ample internet rabbit holes, though it’s more an end-of-summer forage, I ended up with elder.Yes, that elder. The o
Start here: the illustrated kitchen in five minutes (opens the original)
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Hi, and welcome!I’m Anna Lena, an author-illustrator from the Netherlands. I make painted paper collages of food and I cannot stop researching the strange stories behind what we eat: the politics, the accidents, and the disasters that turned into dinner. Every month there’s a new dish, a new rabbit hole, and the illustrated mess of making it.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="611.2359550561798" s
What's dropping tomorrow (spoiler: it involves witches, an insult, and a tree spirit) (opens the original)
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Hi everyone,English words still trip me up occasionally, you know? I went hunting for things I might write about the in-between season bridging summer and autumn everywhere in the world, and stumbled on ‘Elder’... my brain stuttered. Elderly? Elderberries. Ahh… Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Monty Python intrudes uninvited but joyfully into my research on food history. I’ve seen their sketches countless times and what’s not to love? Ridicule of kings, control, a
I don't think I can ever look at lentils the same way again (+ ethiopian red lentil stew recipe) (opens the original)
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Hi there,Hope you’re out there doing well and thriving this summer. I’m not doing too shabby, but the heatwaves have been a bit much. The drought that comes with it has brought forest fires to the Netherlands, as well as WWII bombs and Roman artefacts re-surfacing at the bottom of our waters. Fun?! I can’t wait for fall and winter for extreme rainfall, and for my government to stick its head further and further in the sand when it comes to what we could actually do against climate change.I’ve be
You might know the saying 'rosemary for remembrance', but where does it come from? (+rosemary honey flatbread recipe) (opens the original)
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Hello lovely people,I can NOT wait to dive into the subject of this month, because I have learned so many new things about it… and I have learned to cook something brand-new. As a subscriber, it is now your fate to share in my ultimate geek-out into… rosemary.There is this little thing that Greek ancient students used to believe about it, so firmly, that they braided it into their hair before exams. Then, there is the words that Ophelia says in Hamlet before she turns herself into a human bouque
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