In June 2022 I made a book called FLOWERS FLOWERS FLOWERS FLOWERS FLOWERS, based in part on Dorothy Iannone’s ‘A Cookbook’ (1969/2019), at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium. In September 2022 I launched FLOWERS at an other world project space, Rotterdam, NL. For this occasion I also cooked a number of dishes from Dorothy’s book, with a few alterations. These are the recipes.
All the dishes here are ‘after’ dishes of the same name in A Cookbook; in some cases, I already knew a better recipe, or just made my own adjustments after trying out the original.
There are as many forms of reading as there are text, and I thought I had read A Cookbook very thoroughly, until I started using it as a cookbook. I now appreciate better the work of recipe testers and editors (I did not employ one for this book: may your efforts to follow these page be as confused as mine trying to follow Dorothy’s). There’s also something to be said about the way tastes and kitchen norms change over decades. Preparing for the launch, I also wanted to make sure that any vegan, nut-allergic, gluten-intolerant and lactose-intolerant friends would all eat well.
The paper stocks used in the original (collaged) book are: a monthly agenda pamphlet (2021) by Els & Nel; ultralight pink and yellow (airmail?) paper that Tor collected from an abandoned paper factory near his home town in Sweden, these sheets were a birthday gift in 2017; images from Betty Bossis Fleisch Küche (Zurich: 1987 Betty Bossi Verlag) taken from a mini-beib in De Esch, Luxemburg, June 2022 - the day I left my residency at FMC in fact; various supermarket ‘spaarzegels’ and a strip of postage stamps I found on Wolphaertstraat in spring 2022.
Photos from the launch were taken by an other world and by me.
