Your culinary log could be a well-worn notebook filled with secret recipes, future menus and memories of feasts in distant lands. In this content-focused class, you'll design your own personal blend of the book arts and food writing to document your edible adventures. The class will begin with discussion using examples from sketchbooks, journals, travelogs, scrapbooks and cookbooks. Cleo will break down food writing into bite-sized categories: recipes, reviews, menus and entertaining, memoir, kitchen experiments. Then, she'll show tracing and painting techniques used in her book Cook Until Tenderness. We'll borrow a term used in restaurant cooking, mise en place, which refers to the advance preparation and arrangement of ingredients, and we'll make our own mise en place from art supplies, sketches, bits of collage and stray thoughts. Then we'll get cooking.

Tools List for Workshop (Glossary and Local Suppliers)
students will be provided with a moleskine notebook and some drawing supplies. They should bring food related pictures and collage material that they would like to incorporate into their notebook and favorite pens or art supplies