Meyer Lemon Curd Recipe

Meyer Lemon Curd Recipe combines mokuhanga imagery with hand lettering in a format that bridges the decorative and the functional. Meyer lemons, a California hybrid of lemon and mandarin, locate the work geographically and signal Jesse's connection to the Bay Area and Northern California, where the fruit grows abundantly. Hand lettering integrates recipe text directly into the printed surface, a practice with roots in Japanese woodblock books and broadsides in which text and image were carved and printed together. The still-life subject — likely lemons, possibly a bowl or measuring vessel — would be rendered in mokuhanga's characteristic translucent washes, with yellow tones built from successive applications of water-based pigment on washi. The recipe as form carries both instructional content and a domestic intimacy, treating cooking knowledge as material worthy of the same care and craft as an art print. The combination of text and image makes this work a functional artifact as much as a fine-art object.