The World On A Plate: A Hetalia Fanzine aims to celebrate food from cultures around the world, and what better fandom for this than Hetalia? With 110 pages, this zine showcases the wonderful talents artists and writers coming together to create a beautiful recipe book in honour of World Food Day. If you decide to try any of these recipes, please do tag us! We would love to see it!
READ THE FULL ZINE HERE
Food is culture, food is history, food is human right. On this World Food Day please consider donating to these initiatives providing food aid around the world. No one deserves to go hungry.
Donate to Gaza soup kitchen
Donate to the Sameer Project
Donate to Lebanese Food Bank
My piece for the TOTALLY AWESOME PRUSSIA'S recipe in @the-world-on-a-plate zine! Super stoked to have been on this project for one of the OG fandoms \(0 w v)
everyone check the free full digital zine for some killer recipes !
My entry for @the-world-on-a-plate Fanzine, ft. Kuya Philippines cooking sinigang 😋
Big thanks to the wonderful @lyresbird for hosting! Incredibly delighted to have been able to participate and work alongside such a talented lineup of artists and writers 🫡 take some time to view the full zine ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The World On A Plate: A Hetalia Recipe Fanzine - Google Drive
Cultural tidbits & significance yap under the cut :)
RECIPE: The star of the show, sinigang 🍲🍲 it holds a special place in my heart as my fav filo food and has been since I was young. I’ll link a Canva infographic presentation below detailing more about it — I made it for an unrelated cultural exhibition but coincidentally it works brilliantly in this context too.
Briefly, it’s a sour-savoury soup with a strong tamarind and tomato broth base, rich in vegetables and can be cooked with a wide variety of meat. My favourite version is sinigang na baboy (pork), specifically pork ribs hehe. Here, Piri is depicted cooking the main vegetables I grew up eating it with: bok choy, okra, tomatoes, and eggplant. Aside from it being a personal comfort food, I wanted to showcase how pinoy cuisine is not exclusive to Jollibee, pancit, adobo, and halo halo — there’s such an expansive ensemble of dishes from across the archipelago, it would be a shame to limit representation of a deliciously eclectic menu through only a tiny slice of the whole picture 🥹🥹
👉 History of Sinigang, an informational slideshow
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFgYnt
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Some other details & explanations behind the illustration, if you’re curious:
MOTIF: I tried to incorporate elements of a traditional upper lower / lower middle class Filipino kitchen, drawing nostalgia from when I used to live in Manila. It’s typical for people not to have enough money for an imbedded cooktop or oven so a lot of families use portable gas stoves. Piri has a single burner here cus i imagine he lives alone, it’s also common in student accommodations to only have one.
DESIGN & CULTURE: Playing on the (painfully true) stereotype that Pinoys tend to paint their home interiors with vibrant tacky colours (anybody else got the mint green bedroom special??) by integrating bright blue cabinets and ofc the signature mismatched kitchen wall tiles and barred windows combo in the background iykyk 😆
DECOR: I took a lot of inspo from the layout of my childhood flat in the city and my grandparents’ homes in the countryside. maximalism is fundamentally ingrained in filipino/southeast asian culture — it may look cluttered and disorganized to some but it harkens a quaint, homey feeling for me. The uniquely ornate jar without a complementary pair, an array of differently sized plates in the metal, slightly rusted dish drying rack, and the classic red/blue kalendaryo thumbtacked to the wall are my favourite everyday household items depicted here — their inclusion immediately became a necessity during my initial planning of the composition.
CHARACTER: I hope the ‘ay nako’ shirt is distinguishable behind the adobo adidas apron (equivalent to ‘oh my,’ a filo expression used in annoyance or exasperation. Usually said by parents when scolding their kid lol) 😍 I think Himaruya mentioned in the official Hetalia Collezione book from 2021 that Piri is fond of collecting corny t-shirts, it’s pretty much in line with Filipino humour too lmao
I did a thing for @the-world-on-a-plate and hope you've gotten your chance to check out all the lovely contributions among its pages!
My contributions theme be soups, in hopes that all our autumns, hot or cold be filled with good broth.
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Portugal: Caldo Verde
Poland: Kapuśniak
Egypt: Molokhia ملوخية
Greece: Yuvarlakia γιουβαρλάκια
Ancient Egypt: sycamore figs stewed
Persia: Āsh-e-anār آش انار
China: Yángròu pàomó 羊肉泡饃
Turkey: Beyran çorbası
Cuba: Ajiaco Cubano
My entry for @the-world-on-a-plate !! I drew Wales enjoying some Welsh cakes.
This drawing came with me through some really dark times but I'm rather happy with how it turned out, this was such a fun project to take part in, check out the recipes and amazing art!
@the-world-on-a-plate zine has now released, so I wanted to share my piece! I chose to illustrate Miss Taiwan and 滷肉饭 (lu rou fan), or Taiwanese braised pork rice bowl! 💖
This piece is inspired by the first time I learned to cook lu rou fan from scratch. I was at uni and missing the flavours of home, so I looked up this recipe from Woks of Life and gave it a shot! It was easier than I expected and the results came out super nice~ I also included a few other little nods to my heritage in this piece, including the Apple Sidra and Hey Song Sarsaparilla soda cans on the table, the bottles of soy sauce, oyster sauce, white pepper, and lao gan ma (chili oil) by the stove, and the Paos dishwashing liquid by the sink ^^
Thank you again for having me as a mod and contributor for this zine. It was such a lovely project to participate in!! Everyone's work is absolutely amazing and there are tons of great recipes as well! The zine is completely FREE to download, so please come check it out here!!
“ 吃饭了！” behold: my contribution to @the-world-on-a-plate hetalia fanzine! featuring yao cooking up some mapo tofu 🧡✨
we've got art, writing, and recipes in honour of world food day. my mapo tofu recipe is how i was taught to make it at home. if anyone tries it, i'd love to know how it comes out 🙌
cheers and ty to the wonderful mods for putting this together, you can read the zine here!
i was the recipe artist for turkiye and portugal, and the recipes featured are kokorec & arrod de marisco hhehee
the background absolutely killed me for portugal's ngl meanwhile yes ik sadik here is different and i followed canon design so lesser beard...
anyhow this was the first zine i ever joined and it was so fun
y'all come check it out here !!
and of course if you missed it, for those who can donate absolutely check these links out!
Gaza Soup Kitchen
Sameer Project
Lebanese Food Bank
Sudanese Relief Program
And I feel this is relevant too: if you can also donate to the Global Sumud Flotilla as they will set sail again this November! Here's to breaking the siege, freeing Palestine, ending the occupation. Cheers!
Everyone, The World On a Plate Zine is finally here!!
here is my piece I did! it's miss uzbekistan outside eating lunch in her garden with a plate of plov, called osh locally by uzbeks. like many uzbeks, she pairs it with a piping teapot of green tea, and a quick tomato/cucumber/onion salad!
i'm very grateful to have worked with many wonderful people on this zine! we made a whole recipe book, guys!
and the theme speaks to me a lot because many of us come together by trying different foods. special thanks to @crooked-sketches for hosting this zine, thank you so much for putting up with me ❤️
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
And here it is! My contribution for the @the-world-on-a-plate, a fantastic initiative to which I had the honor to participate with this small piece on one of my favorite foreign desserts: dorayaki!
Check the zine to see artworks, stories and recipes coming from all over the world!
Abang Mal invites you to come eat his Nyonya Acar Fish 🐟🌶️🔥 you may read on how to make it here in the zine, be sure to check everyone else's entries out!! It's making me hungry hahahhhh
read more for my yapping as usual
I'm so happy I joined & finally got to share this oh my goodness drawing this took all my braincells with all the patterns LOLLL is it really traditional Malaysia if there wasn't 1000000000 patterns RIP
I drew Mal wearing a Kebaya, the traditional outfit of the Nyonya people! It's actually the women that wear that but like. I could not find any drip for the guys, I know, I asked my relatives ajdsidfj 😭😭😭
Anyways I think he slays hard in a Kebaya so 💅🏻
The drink and other dish there is Sirap Limau Ais and Pucuk Midin if anyone is wondering too!
Also rn this piece is very personal to me as its based on my late grandmother... I borrowed her Kebaya for reference and recipe (with a few tweaks because her original recipe was... very vague with said ingredients list 😭???? thanks popo) to contribute to this zine, I'm sure she'd be happy to know that someone out there would like to make this dish and eat it!! Hope you enjoy it if you do make it!!
It's almost time!
The World On A Plate releases in three days, on October 16th! Just in time for World food day!
We're so excited to share everything with you!
