APARTAMENTO COOKBOOK #8 — TUBER, OR NOT TUBER?
Tuber or not tuber? That is the question. For this eighth volume, Apartamento goes underground to ask: what exactly is a tuber? Chefs celebrate a wide variety of root vegetables within these pages. Each recipe comes with a "Tuber Check" that reveals whether the star ingredient is botanically a true tuber, or an impostor :)
On the plates of Corey Lee (James Beard Award winner), Arielle Johnson (Noma flavor scientist), Claire Ptak (royal baker), Thalia Barrios García (Oaxacan standard-bearer), and visual artist Motoyuki Daifu, tubers take the form of fresh salads, fried enyucados, or iced horchata.
Swiss Design Award winner Olga Prader brings the book to life with her illustrations—delightfully taking us underground.
Apartamento, a Barcelona-based magazine, documents the interiors we actually inhabit, not the ones we tidy up for photos. Their annual cookbooks follow the same philosophy: no intimidating haute cuisine, just recipes rooted in everyday life.
With contributions from: Aimar Córdoba, Alice Moireau, Anna Sulan Masing, Arielle Johnson, Carlos Alfonso, Claire Ptak, Coralie Jouhier and Daquis Gomis, Corey Lee, Maria Haddad, Motoyuki Daifu, Nic Dowse, Niram Watthanasit, Rosie Healey, Sally Grainger, Thalia Barrios García, and Vadim Otto Ursus.
- Language: English
- Edition: Apartamento Publishing S.L., November 2023
- 40 pages, hardcover with dust jacket
- Format: 170 x 240 mm
- 16 recipes, 16 international chefs
- 20% of profits donated to the Enriqueta Villavecchia Foundation for pediatric oncology
Olga Prader — Illustrator
Born in 1986 in Paris, Olga Prader is a graphic designer, art director, and illustrator based between Paris and Switzerland. A graduate of ECAL in Lausanne and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, she worked from 2014 to 2017 at the studio M/M Paris—a global benchmark in graphic design. Her black-and-white, critical, humorous, and sometimes erotic style has been published in Frieze, Art Review, and Zeit Magazin. In 2021, her illustration work won the Swiss Design Award.
Apartamento — Publishing House
Founded in Barcelona in 2008 by Omar Sosa, Nacho Alegre, and Marco Velardi—a photographer and two designers—Apartamento was born from a simple conviction: to show interiors as we live in them, not as we display them. They created a biannual magazine that has, in just a few years, become a global reference in independent design and lifestyle publishing. Today, Apartamento also publishes annual cookbooks, artist books, and limited editions—from Barcelona, without ever changing course.