Ilhas Studio — Edible Ecologies: An Artist’s Recipe Book

Book Design for the project Edible Ecologies: An Artist’s Recipe Book.

Edited by Jule Kurbjeweit, Edible Ecologies is a cookbook by artists Maya Minder, Rain Wu, Lei Saito, Catherine Cattaruzza, and Mirna Bamieh.

Through an interweaving of recipes rooted in the sea, salt, and their elemental presence, Edible Ecologies introduces not only a shared culinary landscape but also the practices of five women artists whose trajectories are deeply connected to ecology and sustainable forms of gastronomy. The book moves between food and thought, recipe and gesture, revealing how cooking becomes a site of artistic and ecological inquiry.

Conceived as a book that may never be finished, its screw-bound structure allows the pages to be opened, rearranged, and expanded: an open form that mirrors the continuity of the sea itself. Beyond its physical construction, the graphic concept establishes a visual dialogue between the artists and their projects through a series of images made from ingredients drawn directly from the recipes. Grains of salt and strands of salicornia are tinted cyan, referencing the cyanotype process, a photographic technique activated by sunlight.

Rooted in both natural and cultural ecologies, Edible Ecologies was designed as a utopian object: open-ended, evolving, and perpetually in the making.