What's Cooking: Fun Recipes for Wellness

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With a $25,000 grant from the Tomorrow Foundation, MCAD's 2005 Graphic Design Print Production class collaborated with staff from the Dana Farber-Children’s Hospital Cancer Care Program to design a cookbook for pediatric cancer patients and their families. The cookbook has been adopted by several other cancer centers nationwide, and is slated for a second printing. The book's design and its stochastic printing (done by W.E. Andrews) were recognized within the print industry with a silver "Gold Ink Award." Twelve students, under the direction of instructor Lisa Rosowsky, worked for twelve weeks to complete the cookbook.
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Lisa Rosowsky
lrosowsky@massart.edu
617 879 7656

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January 19, 2010
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The client needed a cookbook for its pediatric cancer patients, since cancer treatment and its related discomforts can make eating difficult for these children and their familes. Chemotherapy can cause nausea, mouth sores, and decreased appetite, so every bite a pediatric cancer patient takes has to count!

 
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Students worked with food photographer Jim Scherer and his stylist Catrine Kelty to achieve excellent visuals. Students created illustrations and designed special features, such as food-crafts sidebars. The finished books are provided for free to all incoming patients. Hospital nutrition staff provided the recipes.