slow food

Last weekend there was a Festival of Food on the South Bank, in celebration of slow food, which was quite cool. I happened across it on Friday afternoon, in time to watch a soup cooking demonstration which ended with cups of soup being handed out to the audience. I am "the Queen of Free Soup" on the South Bank, apparently, because it was the second time in the space of a week that I'd been given free soup cooked by a professional chef. It was quite tasty, though I must admit it wasn't terribly appetising to look at. There were other interesting things to look at, though, like DIY mushroom-growing kits, and pretty cupcakes.

My favourite bit of the festival were the recipe posters which were being drawn alongside the demonstrations. I only took pictures of two of them, both for demonstrations that I'd missed, but I really like the way the posters look (click through the one below to see both of them full-size).

They're a bit rough and ready, because of trying to capture all the information in time, but I think it's a nifty idea for a cookbook.

This gave me an idea. I thought it could be a fun project to get some comics creators to create a one-page comic strip of their favourite recipes, and stick them all in a book. I know there are creators who've already done comic strips with recipes (Ariel Bordeaux and Jill Thompson spring immediately to mind), but has a whole book of comic strip recipes ever been done before?

It seems like such an obvious idea that it must have been, but I can't think of any examples. More to the point, would anyone be interested in doing something like that? Maybe for charity or something? I like the idea of doing a cocktail book along the same lines, too, which might have more appeal, given how much comics people like a tipple. Anyone interested?