In September I started sketching food, just something fun with the materials I had to hand. I found myself in Oaxaca state, watching the creamy cocoa fat and mamey-seed drink tejate being made. It’s served in painted half gourds, with ice.
The wonder of Mexican food is that even a simple snack like a tlacoyo looks fantastic and colourful, made with blue maize dough, stuffed with broad beans and topped with cactus salad.
We have two kinds of apron, the smocks housewives wear and the fancier aprons for European-influenced cooks… and trying to draw a coriander leaf with children’s markers and crayons.
All these are scanned raw from my sketchbooks.
Malanga Illustrations 