What happens when you begin to explore the nature of food and approach it from a perspective of graphical sensation?

Cooking Without Recipe explores a system of taste where ingredients are classed into categories of a highly graphical language of colour.

Working within this framework allows you to explore the different sensations of taste and most of all to explore the preparation of food along a vein of experience showing you at which point the taste will change from for example sweet to savoury and just how you can use the same kind of ingredients to explore different kinds of cuisine.

Ellen's book brings together an iconography of taste while taking existing and familiar labels in an illustrated guide to the Cooking Without Recipe approach.

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Ginger winger, inner spell, vanill will kill, and suddenly I realised, not only was I walking and now with much lighter a pace than before, but I was turning and arms akimbo standing with ease.
It was a whole new way of looking, giving the saucepans a whole news set of meaning.

Cooking Without Recipe