Last month, Good Magazine started a contest to “redesign the recipe,” and the submissions are in.

I actually have a really hard time following recipes the way they are usually written out in a cookbook– I have to read them multiple times to understand what is actually happening at each step, so I will often re-write the whole thing in a way that I can understand, and it usually does involve a more graphic, visual approach! So I personally wish that all cookbooks would evolve to an approach like this.

Also, it is really is fascinating to see how if you give someone a relatively blank slate and a mission like “redesign the recipe” how differently people will approach it!

My favorite approaches, as in, the ones I found the easiest to understand, were these simple, lovely illustrations by Katie Shelly at top, and this very clear, creative graphic above by Jessica Kreir.

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