For decades and still to this day, my mom records what she’s made for dinner, when, and with whom she shared the meal. P’s Cookbook reformats the menus of just forty-six dinners my mom made sometime between January 29, 2000 and July 2, 2016. This curated selection of menus is not chronological, but rather based on content. Each menu shares one dish with the next. When I was going through all her notes, I became fixated on the frequency in which some dishes appeared. I noticed how, for example, she had made a tomato tart on Wednesday, May 3, 2000, Saturday, March 24, 2001, Wednesday, September 22, 2003, Sunday, November 9, 2003, and Saturday, May 29, 2004. This pattern allowed for a system of analogue hyperlinks to be embedded throughout the pages and determined the form of the book. On the left side, book A, are the dates and menus of these dinners. On the right side, book B, are forty-six recipes. Each menu item with a corresponding recipe appears in book A as highlighted and annotated with a book B page number. Each dish’s recipe contains a list of book A page numbers of menus that include that dish. In other words, book A can be used to navigate book B and vice versa. And at the end of the book there are 6 different indices, or ways of navigating through the years of dinners. This book served as my undergraduate thesis in communications design from the Pratt Institute. - Sophia Dorfsman