Everything I Ate A Year in the Life of My Mouth by Tucker Shaw
Everything I Ate, A Year in the Life of My Mouth, is a four-hundred seventy-six page book framing an individual’s relationship with food, relationships, travel, pop culture, political milestones, food-packaging design, and more, from author and food and book enthusiast, Tucker Shaw.
Context
Shaw, from January 1 to December 31, traveled to and from New York City to San Francisco, California; Tinkwig, Pennsylvania; Kearsarge, New Hampshire; Bonita Springs, Florida; Nantucket, Massachusetts; Whitmore Lake, Michigan; the Yaak Valley to Glacier National Park, Montana; Milan, Italy; Las Vegas, Nevada; and more, chronicling everything he ate.
Consumption
With a total of 2,500 photographs and documented entries, Shaw consumed an array of foods ranging from cereal, sushi, pizza, steak, salads, egg-and-cheese sandwiches, Manhattan clam chowder, chicken potpie, white wine, red-potato hash, and much more.
With a vast collection of photographs and documented entries, packaged in an intimate handheld-book format, the book employs the sans-serif typeface Akzidenz Grotesk, designed by Günter Gerhard Lange between 1969 and 1973, a flexible grid, side calendar navigation, and a color system, situating the reader in Shaw’s time and place on any given date.
Book Interior: Front Matter
The front matter, monthly dividers, and back matter, crudely illustrated on white paper deli napkins by Shaw, provide a humanistic touch to the highly structured architecture of the interior’s visual system.
Book Interior: Documented Entries
The section of documented entries employs a flexible grid, allowing for dynamic layouts depending on the amount of content per day.
The last documented entry, dated December 31, details Shaw’s consumption of brioche from Lafayette Pâtisserie on Greenwich Avenue; mushroom quiche from Pâtisserie Claude on W. 4th Street; sticky rice with pork wrapped in bamboo leaf at Sammy’s Noodle Shop with Jorge; pork noodle soup at Sammy’s; little juicy pork buns at Sammy’s; caviar with crème fraîche at home with Danny; wild mushroom soup with shaved truffle dumpling at Kittichai; cod with red pepper–coconut sauce and Thai greens; steak with red wine vinegar sauce, turnips, carrots, beets, and pan squash; white chocolate and clementine soufflé with Thaiparinha ice cream with Jorge at Kittichai; and Life cereal at home.
