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A collaboration began five years ago with an animated conversation between two artists/colleagues about their personal experiences withvrecipes from family and friends. The original project drew from the idea that a recipe is a microcosm that embodies identity, culture, and memory. By examining the evolution of the aurthors' personal collections--clippings heirlooms, to screen grabs--the artists found relationships to time and space, embedded essences, and deep connections. One's memories included a cardboard box salvaged from some gift that her mother filled with a random selection of clipped recipes. For the other, recipes and images of prize-winners in 1950's bake-off cookbooks have inspired projects where family secrets and financial gain are traded. The conversation continues and a partnership was formed to enlarge the dialogue and create art projects influenced by memories of food, friends, and family. The works include a handmade 'cookbook/box', site-specific installations, performances, projections, prints, and now a reification of the cookbook--the re-cookbook, which refers to the contents of the original artwork--the cookbook/box filled with simulacrum. Like making art, a recipe is a blend of formula, code, inspiration, and performance--all subject to change for any reason. When a recipe is shared, the exchange is more than just a list of ingredients on paper complete with spills and smudges. They are encoded with ethnicity and a path to our pasts. More often than n