THEY DRAW AND COOK through them by meal type, ingredient or illustration style. So if you’ve got a taste for, say, cakes and pies you can quickly find results to satisfy your craving. Or, if you’re more interested in the artwork featured on the site, you could choose from several illustration criteria; for example, choose “full of expressive line work” or “awesomely designed” from the search options page and browse through the returns. Another cool feature of the site is the “Dial-A-Dinner” section, perfect if you’re in the mood for a little experimentation. Resembling a slot machine, Dial-ADinner offers a randomized selection of an appetizer, a main course and dessert. If you’re a vegetarian, you’ll want to click the “What’s Salli Serving?” button. For those less picky, you can click on the “What’s Nate Cooking?” button.
When you think about it, cooking and drawing share many similarities. Both are a form of artistic expression: cooking is about mixing and matching flavors and textures while drawing is about the interplay of line thickness and color. They also share a tradition of craftsmanship that stimulate the senses – smell and taste for cooking, sight for drawing. The two are per fectly matched, which
is why the website, They Draw & Cook (www.theydrawandcook.com) works so well. Founded by brother-and-sister design team Nate Padavick and Salli Swindell, the site features user-submitted illustrations of recipes from around the world. The drawings are as rich and diverse as the recipes they depict. The site features a searchable database that allows you to sift
Since submissions to the They Cook & Draw website come from around the globe, the site has a customized Google Map pinpointing their origins. Scrolling around the map to see culinar y interests/ar tistic talent of a region or countr y is as fun as it is enlightening. A new set of six recipes are posted ever y three days so there is always something fresh to see and tr y. While many of the submissions come from professional ar tists, that shouldn’t stop you from tr ying to submit a recipe of your own. They Draw & Cook offers a fresh take on recipe sharing, full of whimsical illustrations and tasty dishes.
source: McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.