The first ever little zine to make its way out of my shitty home printer. I really had to compartmentalize and suppress the designer in me to get this finished — “done is better than good” is the mantra I continue to carry with me through these zine projects.
As in all things, compounding interested has helped them get better and better over time. I had grandiose plans to continue a series in this manner, I guess I still might, but most projects since have been less “comprehensive”. In fact, I think I’ve enjoyed the challenge of trying to fit as much possible on to a single sheet of paper. If I were to do an extended series like this again, it would either be about masa or pizza, two topics I now know my way around well enough to drone on about for a few pages.
![Zine opened up to two pages, one says "is it going to kill me? the other "[fingers crossed emoji] probably not"](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y_du!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96f2d8dd-14b3-4c2b-9845-fd9e23af03f3_842x1122.jpeg "Zine opened up to two pages, one says \"is it going to kill me? the other \"[fingers crossed emoji] probably not\"")
My first foray into “recipe writing”, which is still not really a thing I have any confidence doing. I’m hoping that after enough repetition maybe it will come more naturally, but I feel very attuned to understanding the nuances of a well written recipe, as someone with a lot of cookbooks and a professional history of making sure things work.
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