Food Stuff: Memories, Recipes, Storie & Snacks, Aysen Gerlach, 2018. 84 pages, 8″x8″

In Food Stuff, author and illustrator Aysen Gerlach recounts the foods that shaped the different phases of her life, tracked by where she ate them and who she ate them with. Aysen shares anecdotes about the people who introduced her to certain meals, cross-generational and cross-country traditions, even real usable recipes, all accompanied by hand-drawn illustrations, diagrams, and comics. Food Stuff works to show the memories and meaning that food can hold, and the relationships it can both build and strengthen.