Children's Books by TDAC Artists!
There are so many talented and successful artists on TDAC! Here are links to many books that were illustrated by a few of our new friends! (If you are an artist and would like your book featured here, please click here to send Nate an email with...
Illustrators from the Electric Keychain Collective
We are thrilled to present an awesome batch of recipes sent in by the artists of the Electric Keychain Collective! Read about this dynamic group here and click here to view their entire collection of recipes.
Two-Cookies Diary
TDAC artist Jean Cameron and her sister Beryl have teamed up to create an amazing 2013 diary and day planner. Not only is it beautifully designed and constructed but it is FULL of wonderful quotes, kitchen tips, recipes and a whole lot of love! ...
SCAD-Atlanta Stellar Students!
Under the amazing tutelage of professors Rick Lovell and Mike Lowery of SCAD-Atlanta we present this outstanding batch of illustrated recipes. They are all full of fun, flair and lots of fabulousness.
As they started appearing on the TDAC site...
4 TDAC Artists Have Collections with Madison Park
Congratulations to TDAC Superstar Artists Alex Savakis, Betsy Cordes, Amy Schimler and our very own Salli Swindell for creating these beautiful collections of greeting cards with Madison Park Greetings. Madison Park produces great-looking cards and...
Curated Collection by Jo Packham
We are so happy to have a collection of recipes curated by Jo Packham who is the creator/editor in chief of 2 magazines: Where Women Cook and Where Women Create . She just happened to feature Salli in the February issue so it's perfect...
TDAC Artist Koosje Koene's Recipes in Print
When Dutch magazine topICS saw Koosje's recipe for Christmas Tree Cookies they decided to feature not only that recipe, but Koosje herself in their holiday issue! We love the way Koosje redesigned the recipe to fit their spread. And, their readers...
Local Magazines Find Artists on TDAC!
Just last week we received emails from 2 TDAC Artists, Monika Roe from Paso Robles, CA and Kostis Tzortzakakis from Crete. They contacted us to share some great news: it turns out that the editors of their local city magazines, 805 Living and Athens...
Glascow Bakeshop Enlists TDAC Artist for Bakery Illos!
How cool is this? TDAC/TDAT Artist Alice Dansey-Wright illustrated a great map on They Draw & Travel of Glascow's West End . In it she featured a local bakeshop called Cottonrake Bakery. It seems her map was shared among a lot of folks in Glascow...
Athens Voice spotlights Tomek Giovanis!
One of the biggest free papers in Greece, the Athens Voice, recently featured They Draw & Cook / They Draw & Travel contributor Tomek Giovanis!
We were so excited when Tomek told us about it. Of course Tomek's talent isn't news to us. Tomek...
They Draw and ... Give Back!
You might have noticed that we recently launched a great new shop on Cafe Press featuring mugs, tote bags, T-shirts and more! They're all emblazoned with the wonderful little monkey that graces Daniela Garreton's Monkey Banana Cream! recipe. He's...
TDAC Features Recipes from MICA Students!
On the home page jumbotron from September 23 to 26, we're proud to be featuring six recipes from Rebecca Bradley's "Illustrating the Edible" class at the Maryland Institute College of Art!
Rebecca assigned her class to illustrate a recipe that conjures...
Sweet Illustrated Recipe Site!
You don't have to know Spanish to appreciate the cool, cute illustrated recipes on the blog Pan & Peter!
The site features tons of inspiring creations. On this warm late summer day on the east coast of the U.S., we were immediately drawn to the...
UPPERCASE Magazine features...
TDAC Contributing Artist Anna Denise Van Der Reijden! Anna Denise submitted this recipe for Pesto Chicken in the early days of TDAC and it seems that she has not put down her art journal ever since! The latest issue (#10) of UPPERCASE includes an...
TDAC Loves "We Love to Illustrate"!
Are you ready to smile? A lot??!!! Meet the 6 wonderful artists (Jennifer A. Bell, Julissa Mora, Cally Johnson-Isaacs, Shirley Ng-Benitez, Nina Seven and Belinda Strong) that joined together to create the blog "We Love to Illustrate". They...
Promo Video for They Draw & Cook - the Book!
Hey everybody! Check out this AWESOME promo video for They Draw & Cook - the book! Created by our buddy and fellow TDAC artist Alex Savakis, it brings TDAC to life in a super fun, colorful way! Our publisher, Weldon Owen, just posted it on their...
Look What TDAC Inspired!
We received a wonderful e-mail from the author of this awesome blog (Magic Markings Art). She says that the recipes on TDAC were the inspiration for one of the projects at her "Life is Sweet" art camp. She titled the post "Cooking Art...
Nate & Salli meet Sarah Platanitis
Salli and her family visited Nate in North Adams, MA last weekend for the 3-day long Wilco Solid Sound music festival. They had a super fun time, ate lots of yummy samosa's from the SamosaMan , listened to tons of great live music, and the best part.......
TDAC loves Claudia Pearson!
We here at TDAC celebrate food and art every single day. Today we celebrate Claudia Pearson, one of our longtime favorites. Her sophisticated and organic sense of drawing combined with her wonderful color aesthetic keep us always wanting to see more!...
Flemish magazine Libelle Lekker finds Kathy DeWit on TDAC!
We founded TDAC on the principle of promoting the artwork of freelance illustrators. So, we were thrilled when Kathy DeWit sent us an email telling us how Libelle Lekker, a Flemish foodie magazine, saw her work on TDAC and offered her an assignment!...
Introducing ... They Draw & Travel!
The world is awesome. That's why we're so excited to announce our new site, They Draw and Travel! It's a celebration of art and exploration, featuring illustrated maps by artists with a passion for the places they've lived in and visited.
The collection...
SCAD Students Illustrate Recipes!
Linda Warner Constantino, an instructor at the Savannah College of Art and Design, contacted us about using TDAC as an assignment for her class "Illustrating the Edible". We were thrilled! And we were even more thrilled when the assignments started...
TDAC artist Claire Murray designs recipe cards for Jamie Oliver!
This is really cool: TDAC artist Claire Murray has just illustrated a set of awesome recipe boards for superstar chef Jamie Oliver! You can check them out at Claire's blog, and buy them at Jamie Oliver's site.
The boards feature "delicious dishes...
Fun blog: 'Steel My Lunch'
TDAC is all about celebrating the beauty and fun of food - that's why we love what LA-based blogger Jamie Rubin is doing with her daughter's lunches! Over at her blog, "Steel My Lunch," Jamie chronicles the super fun lunches she creates for her daughter...
TDAC connects artist Kaitlyn McCane with Meredith Corp!
When an art director from Meredith came looking for some cute illustrations for a magazine article, Nate and Salli referred her to TDAC favorite Kaitlyn McCane. We thought Kaitlyn's fresh and friendly style and her character development were just...
TDAC connects artist Sarah Ward with Gartner Studios!
We immediately fell in love with the charming and well designed illustration style of Sarah Ward and so did Gartner Greetings when they discovered her recipes on TDAC! Sarah is having fun with the greeting card assignments she is receiving from Gartner...
TDAC favorite Vanessa Brantley Newton's latest book!
I was checking out the new children's books in MASS MoCA's (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) gift shop the other day and one of them caught my eye. Sure enough, it was the latest and greatest from Vanessa Brantley Newton! It is adorable and...
TDAC Artist Charrow is working on a book!
Inspired by the creative layouts she used for her 6 amazing TDAC recipes, Charrow started working on illustrations for a new children's book. She says: "Its a Where's Waldo for getting dressed in the morning...you have the help Winnie find her clothing...
California Fig Advisory Board sends figs to TDAC & Monika Roe!
Cristina Dayton from the California Fig Advisory Board knows how much figs mean to us here at TDAC - she not only sent Salli and Nate a crate, but she offered up a crate to one of our contributors. Who better to receive this surprise than Monika Roe...
MICA illustration students create amazing recipes!
Rebecca Bradley is an illustrator who also teaches illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). This semester she taught a class on food illustration (at which she is amazing) and she turned TDAC into a class assignment - look at the...
Our first recipe!
Is it weird that our very first recipe isn't even a recipe? Who cares because who doesn't LOVE a good taco truck?! YUM.


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