old, tatty exercise book, black hard cover book, A4 dishevelled book, photocopied recipes, magazine and newspaper clippings

Ingredients

paper, duct tape, glue

Evidence

"the page is heavily stained by oil and wet ingredient splatters, often seeping through one page and onto another, smudging or fully erasing tidbits of text."

Remarks

The manuscript is an A4 dishevelled exercise book with a black hard cover and a broken red spine (p. 71, 72). It contains a variety of paper substrates including the original exercise book pages, photocopied recipes (photostats) from the 1980s, South African magazine and newspaper clippings, and children's drawings (p. 73, 74). The materiality of the book reflects heavy use in a kitchen environment, with significant oil and wet ingredient splatters that have caused the paper to become transparent or 'seep through' in places (p. 72, 80). The paper is described as fragile and well-worn (p. 73).