Harri khun
The book explores the shift that the culinary world has experienced from a basic need to a complex culture as well as the correlation between the joy of living and eating through the sacrifice of other species de facto.
art direction
Editorial
content
photography
Quarry. The Foodbook takes on death objectively featuring 270 written and hand–picked recipes from all over the globe in which the main subject are not actually the final end products (or dishes), but the animals itself. In that sense, the audience’s attention is lead to the the featured animals.
The challenge was to think about the term death and to choose a specific topic related to it, and then conceptualize and design two publications: a book and a magazine. This project is the book.
270 written and hand–picked recipes from all over the globe in which the main subject are not actually the final end products (or dishes), but the animals itself.
The project has aims to function neither as a criticism nor a catastrophic statement. It pretends to bring out the nature of our relationship with food. Therefore, there are no pictures of dishes, just photographies of the main aspect of the recipes, in this case the invertebrate — mainly chosen for its use, regardless of its origin or its purpose on the table.
Furthermore, the content is organized accurately following the Animal Kingdom classification that distinguishes vertebrates and invertebrates. The actual Volume I compiles the invertebrates: mollusks, worms, echinoderms, coelenterates and arthropods.
Although they are not specifically mentioned throughout the book, each chapter is preceded with a sample of the material used to carry the creatures from suppliers to home. For example, the arthropods are presented with a piece of a heavy-duty plastic bag, commonly used in Mexico to carry them out.
The finished hand–binded book is one that builds awareness and creates an objective image of our physiological and cultural relations with food.
Each section is presented with a meticulously treated image created by superposing two green and pink filtered photographies that show the animal in two different stages of life and death respectively. Together with a printed pink filter it creates an optical effect that only leads the alive creature to disappear whenever the pink layer is lifted, showing the dead body afterwards.
Harri Khun
Design and content
Gisela Ch. de Bruijn
Volume: 9 × 16 pages
Format: 14.8 × 21 cm
Paper: HOLMEN Trnd 2.0. 80 g/sm
Printing: Risograph, orange and medium blue
Binding: Hand-binded