Family Meal

Nurit Yarden offers a generous, intimate gift: “six gourmet meals from the recipe box inherited from my mother.” But rather than going into the kitchen, tying an apron around her waist and continuing the glorious tradition, Yarden chose to put this recipes of female knowledge and good taste into an artist’s book mold, spreading out on each page layers of texts, images and words. At the bottom of the “pot” she places a word—a title—whose function resembles that of the pea under the mattresses on which the princess slept.

—Text by Tali Tamir