In Cook (Not) Like Your Mother, young women tell their stories and gain insight into becoming a woman nowadays. The interviews are designed in an anthropological/ documentary style.
While cooking a beloved dish from their childhood, participants reflect on their mothers, and themselves, in the domestic context. How they see cooking (and caring) roles reveals the work of constructing their feminine identity in intergenerational relation their mothers, grandmothers, fathers, gender-roles, as opposed to whom they want to be.to
These interviews were analysed, materialised into recipe books, designed to reveal to the readers the true intricacies of mother-daughter relations, assisting their everyday struggle to construct a gender-role that fits
Below are screenshots and images from the interviews
The editing method for the books was collaging.
Each interview was transcribed as the first step. Then each recipe was isolated, using the woman who cooked that recipe as the leading character, collaging another woman's story into the recipe book, a new story was designed.