The White Rabbit’s Out of the Bag
My good pal Pierre and I decided today was the day to make a little announcement: we’re working on a book project together – an illustrated version of Alice in Wonderland, set to food.
It was Pierre’s brainchild – a project he kept talking about and I kept pushing him to do until he invited me to join in the fun. Lucky me. I’ve always wanted to do a kids storybook with recipes, and Lewis C. Carroll’s classic is well-loved and packed with food imagery, and so we’ve been working like Mad Hatters on a book we’ve called Alice Eats. I’ve been mixing up crumpets and marmalade and little tea cakes that say “Eat Me”. Pierre has been working on the layout and illustrations and doing a lot of poking me with a stick. (Public apology: sorry you have to deal with me and my lack of time management skills. I’m glad you’re on the ball with schedules and deadlines and outlines and have general organizational prowess. I’m chronically running late for my important dates.)
Pierre is well known for his food and illustrations in Swerve, and won a Gourmand World Cookbook Award this spring for Kitchen Scraps: A Humourous Illustrated Cookbook that is all it claims to be – I can’t think of anyone better to bring Alice to life. See his little sketch up top? There are a lot more where that came from. I hear the tea party spread took him a good five days in the basement.
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October 08 2010 | leftovers | 111 Comments »
