The Feminist Vegetable Cookbook

The Feminist Vegetable Cookbook is a folio of woodblock prints that celebrates grrrl power and queer love with a veggie (and fruity, creamy) twist. While superimposing an anthropocentric view on some of my most beloved foods, I also propose a phytocentric approach to looking at humans, by drawing inspiration from the fluid and complex gender and sexuality of plants. Squash, for example, will cross-fertilize and shape-shift with every generation, such that—without human intervention—each offspring will display completely unique characteristics. And most of the fruits and vegetables we eat come into existence through self-fertilization, cloning, and insect/bird/bat/wind-mediated sexual encounters.