One Ingredient Recipes is a cookbook that dissolves the very concept of a recipe, replacing technique and shopping lists with existential inquiry, dry humour, and the occasional uncomfortable moment of clarity.
About This Book
What happens when a cookbook refuses to cook? Martijn In 't Veld's One Ingredient Recipes sits at the intersection of conceptual art, poetry, and the absurdist tradition — a slim volume that uses the familiar grammar of the recipe format to deliver something far stranger and more resonant. In 't Veld frames the project around a universal predicament: the desire to cook well, colliding with a lack of time. His solution is radical reduction. The resulting single-ingredient recipes range from meditations on finding peace to engineered moments of social awkwardness — most of which, he notes, you don't even need to eat. It is a book for readers who find meaning in constraint and wit in form.
Key Features
- 128 pages of single-ingredient recipes blending conceptual art, poetry, and dry humour
- Published by Happy Potato Press, 2019
What You'll Discover
- How the recipe as a literary form can carry existential weight and philosophical musing
- The creative possibilities of radical constraint — reducing a genre to its most elemental unit
- Humour deployed with precision: situations engineered to be uncomfortable in the best possible way
- The overlap between children's book sensibility, conceptual art practice, and self-published printed matter
About the Author
Martijn In 't Veld publishes a wide range of printed matter under the imprint Happy Potato Press, which he founded in 2019. His work draws on influences from poetry, conceptual art, and children's books to produce objects that resist easy categorisation.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 128
- Dimensions: 110 x 150 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789083347721
- Publisher: Happy Potato Press
- Publication Date: 2019
Perfect For: Readers drawn to artist publications, conceptual humour, and books that use familiar formats to quietly subvert expectations — designers, artists, and anyone who appreciates wit in print.