Comfort Food

Series of 15 recipe cards, wood box, media player and headphones, 2025

Comfort Food is a recipe box. It looks like the kind of box someone might use to store family recipes. Inside are recipe cards for foods I call “comfort foods.” They are written as recipes but function as stories, advice, and memories for my children. Some are practical. Some are personal. All of them are meant to be something they could return to later.

The box also includes an audio piece. There’s a button on the box that plays a short story I made with my daughter. The story uses some of the recipes and talks about cooking together, and how making food became a way for us to show care for each other.

Made in collaboration with James Coyne and Ian Coyne. Photos by Deanna Dent and Samantha Chow.