The Picayune's Creole Cook Book :: Sesquicentennial Edition
This hand-painted photo collage is the original jacket of the Sesquicentennial Edition produced in New Orleans and published in 1987. The book was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the New York Art Directors Club.
A pile of shrimp crowns the English Art Nouveau plate in the flow blue Staffordshire Iris pattern, which dates to 1903. It sits atop a detail of vintage ivory lace over a blue textile.