Not a Cookbook pencils progress notes

progress notes

at the age of 35

with contributions from Melissa Chiu

It brings never-before-published poems and essays together with a complete facsimile reproduction of Gins’ 1969 masterpiece

the poems are iterative and suggest the infinite recursions of nano data

Not a Cookbook pencils progress notesAt first glance, Not a Cookbook appears to be just what its title impliesbut beneath the surface lies a layered, collage style portrait of a restaurant and the family that holds it together. Centered on Resto Palme, a Caribbean restaurant in Montreal run by married duo Lee Anne Millaire Lafleur and Ralph Alerte, the book offers a deeply personal and provocative exploration of kitchen culture, where food becomes a lens through which to examine family,