Cookbook COOKBOOK

"La cuisson densifie, concentre, réduit, fait converger le donné, le cuit fait abonder le cru, le donné passe du hasard, de la circonstance improbable et légère, inconstante, à l’habitude et à la compacité. Va du mélange chaotique diffus à la mêlée ordonnée dense. Le feu cimente les mixtes, transforme ladite confusion en vitrail, agite assez les petites parties secrètes pour allier ce qui répugnerait à froid. Il aide les concours, favorise les connivences, serre les voisinages, enrichit les alliages, découvre soudain de nouvelles alliances, apprend, par synthèse, à savoir."
Michel Serres »Les cinq sens. Philosophie des corps mêlés."

Basis of the volume are eight color photographs that show the ingredients of the spanish Paella. Color separations of these pictures were used to illustrate the method of the four-color process printing. In the course of the Cookbook preparation are the single colors as well presented as the combination of all four colors. At the end of the book-preparation the four-color printings are realized. A text by the french philosopher Michel Serres "Les cinq sens / Die fünf Sinne" (French original / German translation) and some texts by Jorge Luis Borges are printed onto the pictures. Serres’ text "The Five Senses" deals with cooking and the different conditions of the ingredients: from rawness to mixture. Photography, handset and letterpress: Ines von Ketelhodt. Photographs printed with polymer-plates. Bookprinting paper, 96 pages, printed paperboard. Flörsheim am Main 2003.