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They Draw and Cook

Website Editor • Feb 24, 2020

The website that's a feast for the eyes, as well as the belly.

Featuring an eye-popping, mouth-watering smorgasbord of tastefully-illustrated recipe cards They Draw and Cook is the illustration equivalent of TV’s cooking-as-entertainment phenomenon.

This is a fun website crowdsourced with wonderfully eclectic imagery from all over the world that will inspire you to draw as much as to cook … and if you are not so skilled in either then it will at least give you an (animate your) appetite.
Recipe illustration done by the group They Draw and Cook

TDAC was created by sibling illustrator-designers Nate Padavick and Salli Swindell around an idea to create a recipe book for friends, family and clients of their design business. Six years later it is is the world’s largest collection of illustrated recipes.


With consistent promotion through blogging and social media to an ever-expanding audience, and publication of many of the recipes in hard copy (for which royalties are paid to the artists) TDAC offers a unique online exhibition space for professional or hobbyist illustrators.

Illustration recipe of tropical twist done by the group They Draw and Cook
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