Food connects us; home-cooked, hand-chopped, premade, 5-course or 5-grain, it's all the same: a reason to share, to collide into each other after, or to refill in a moment that's purely our own. Recipes are passed down over nimble fingers and long limbs that send us rushing to the bathroom when we laugh just a little too hard at yesterday's news.

The recipes in The Collective honor this very thing, providing soul-filling meals, quick, achievable snacks, and projects built for friends to melt into slow summer afternoons. Through its matte pages and hard cover, may it serve as a bridge between memories and moments, between tradition and today.

The design draws from a broad color palette inspired by vintage glassware and heirloom crystal, paired with a clean, minimal photography style to ground it in the present.

This is my collection — welcome to the collective.

The Collective aims to be published in 2027.