What’s In Your Bag Illustration Series by Lea (CCL) Reframes Taiwanese Food Culture as a Migration Story
Dirk Petzold
Food illustration rarely makes you feel homesick on someone else’s behalf. But Lea’s What’s In Your Bag illustration series does exactly that — and it does it through a shopping bag. Chia-Chun Li, the Taiwan-born illustrator and graphic designer known as CCL, created this project as both a visual record and an honest reckoning with what it means to cook from memory in a country that doesn’t carry the right ingredients. The result is a 26-page illustrated recipe book that quietly dismantles...