Double spreads today! I decided to pair these two together because the “How To Dry Fresh Herbs” clipping that I took out of a magazine spans both spreads.
In the first image, the left side is a few pencil drawings of herbs that I use often, and some of their uses and associations. In the second image on the right side is a pencil drawing (with a small gouache accent colour) of the tiny kitchen from my old apartment on Delaware Avenue in Toronto. When I first moved into that apartment, I was not much of a cook. I wasn’t terrible at cooking - I just wasn’t really interested in it. I’m a notorious picky eater and I get into patterns with my eating - I’ll eat the same meal every day for weeks and not get bored. But while I lived at that second floor apartment, with it’s shitty, hastily renovated kitchen, I taught myself to have a different relationship with cooking. I started learning to cook a few “fancy” meals completely from scratch, and challenged myself to expand my tastes. Before I moved out, I drew this little scene so I wouldn’t forget this kitchen (plus I gave myself a few tips in the margins)
“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”