Introduction

In this challenge you are being asked to research foods that grow within 100 miles of where you live and develop a recipe using primarily these local foods. In this step you'll select an idea for a dish and sketch it using the exploded diagramming method. Essentially you draw the component elements of a dish into distinct parts so the viewer can easily tell what is in it. There are four example images above - click through them to see a variety of exploded food diagrams.  

Instructions

Review your list of ideas for a recipe made from local ingredients. Which one are you most interested in developing and sharing? Pick your favourite brainstormed idea and draw an exploded sketch of your unique local recipe idea. Use detail, colour, and add ingredient labels to the drawing to help a viewer easily understand what is in your dish. Add a title to your dish at the top of the page (feel free to have fun with the name!). Also, make sure to write the city and country of your recipe on your diagram so viewers know the region your local dish is from. 

Note: For this challenge, you do not need to provide the exact amounts of ingredients or instructions for cooking your recipe. You're just sharing an exploded view of what is in the final dish. 

To learn more about various types of sketching, and useful techniques, watch the short video in the Resources tab above, produced by our collaborators at NuVu Studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Record Your Work

Take a picture of your detailed exploded recipe sketch. You'll be sharing that image when you submit your project!

>> Proceed to Step 5 (Submit!)

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