- PDF, sixty pages, illustrated.
- Read on the phone, the iPad, the laptop.
- Print whichever pages you cook from.
A Honduran-Italian kitchen, told slowly.
From page one
Una drawer in our kitchen holds the sofrito mise en place — onion, green pepper, garlic, cilantro stems in a jar of water, a head of culantro when the Latin store has it, a small bowl of salt that nobody asked for but is always there.
Un'altra drawer two over holds the soffritto mise — onion, carrot, celery, parsley wrapped in damp paper, a wedge of parmigiano in wax, an anchovy tin that has been opened and not finished.
Six chaptersSixty pages
Foundations
Sofrito and soffritto. Salsa de tomate and sugo. Caldo and brodo. The bases on which the rest of the kitchen sits.
The morning
A standing espresso versus a long café con leche. Baleadas on a Saturday. Cornetti from the bakery on the corner that does not exist here.
The contested counter
Six weeknight dinners between people who disagree about salt and agree about garlic.
Sunday lunch
The all-day ragù. The all-day tamales. Two long cookings that produce the same thing — a table nobody wants to leave.
Holidays that don't line up
Tamales on the 24th. Lasagne on the 25th. Cotechino on the 31st. Pasta al pesto on Ferragosto.
What we feed people
Antipasti for friends who have never seen antipasti. Curtido on the table next to grissini.
When the book opens
Three ways to take it home.
- Small-format hardcover, color throughout.
- Cloth spine, sewn binding, lay-flat.
- Ships within two weeks of order.
- Numbered 001 – 200, hand-signed by both.
- Closes when they're gone. Never reopens.
- Ships before the wider release.
The bundle
Two Drawers+Untranslated
Both books from the same kitchen. The recipes and the field notes that came with them.
$56$42save $14
From the same kitchen
Untranslated.
Field notes from an interracial relationship, told slowly.
"Both of our mothers learned to use WhatsApp the same year."
The book this kitchen is from. Releasing alongside Two Drawers — included in the bundle above.
Williamsburg · VA · MMXXVI