L’Chaim & Lagniappe
L’Chaim & Lagniappe is my family cookbook. It is a collection of recipes from my mother and father’s sides of our family, accompanied by scrapbook photographs and illustrated memories to communicate the unique marriage of cultures.
Client:
My Family
Year:
2024
Collaborators:
Gus Granger
Focus:
Publication
Typography
The type pairing includes Braisetto, a script, for section titles and illustration features, to evoke handwritten recipes. I also looked at some older Southern comfort food and French cookbooks and tried to find a casual middle ground between those styles.
Illustrations
Throughout the cookbook, ingredient highlights are illustrated, existing independently, within a pattern, or compiled into a feature. Like the handwritten look intended by my script choice, I chose a looser illustration style to communicate the nostalgia and intimacy behind sharing our memories.
Recipe Spreads
I developed a system where my father’s recipes are constructed of black text on white pages, and my mother’s are inverted. All recipes are accompanied by the illustrations, scrapbook photographs, or a combination of the two.
