Ramen Forever

After almost 3 years of hard work and dedication Ramen Forever is finally almost complete. I’d like to thank all the artists, chefs, writers and enthusiasts for being so supportive of the idea and making this dream possible. I’d also like to thank Erik Carnes for all the time you spent helping me to design pages. This book has challenged me in so many ways but overall the biggest gem I learned was to finish what you start. I can’t wait to show you all this project in the physical form of a book. Again thank you and whatever you can donate would help, as there are many costs involved! Arigato

Ramen Forever:

An Artist's Guide to Ramen (published by SWIM Gallery, @swim.gallery)


Overview

Ramen Forever: An Artist’s Guide to Ramen celebrates the human relationship to the humble Japanese noodle dish that’s taken Western culture by storm. Written, edited and produced by San Francisco-based artist and owner of SWIM gallery, Yarrow Lazer-Smith a.k.a Yarrow Slaps, the “avant-garde cookbook” is an illustrated love letter to Ramen and an overall observation of the ramen culture. 

 

The book will include:

Recipes from ramen-loving artists
Ramen illustrations from over 85 of the urban art scene’s most celebrated artists including Kristen Liu-Wong, Justin Hager and FroHawk 2Feathers.
Interviews with Ramen chefs and food personalities from all over the world.
 

Yarrow Slaps’  Vision

As an artist/foodie I wanted to make a book that was artistic enough to be an art book but food orientated enough to be a cookbook.  All the artists involved were assigned to illustrate their favorite instant noodle creations, make a recipe and give it a title and price for which their dish costs to make. The concept behind that is cus’ quite frankly us artists be broke and often turn to instant noodles during long studio nights. With all these exciting instant noodle creations I began to think about actual ramen and began doing interviews with some of today’s top ramen chefs and enthusiasts . I went down the rabbit hole of ramen. This book is a visual record of my adventures.
 

I envision this becoming one of America’s next top coffee table books. The ramen scene is expanding at exponential rates across the world right now and this project covers it. With representation from some of today’s top visual artist’s illustrations and unique recipes, to in-depth interviews with some of the leaders in ramens culinary rise, readers will be able to see and learn from some of the best doing it. I hope it is inspirational and helps others who wish to make books as well.

                                               DONATIONS .        (all of which go to book production)

Any Donation of $20 or more will get you a shoutout on the @ramenforeverofficial instagram and a hug when i see ya!

Any Donation of $100 or more will get you a limited "Ramen Forever T-shirt:)

Any Donation of $500 or more will get you a Signed Copy of the book and a limited T-shirt and a VIP pass to the release party!

Any Donation of $1000 or more, you will be mentioned in the book, get a Signed Copy of the book, a limited T-shirt & VIP ticket!

Any Donation of $5,000 or more will get you all the above, your name in purple in the mentions and a private hummer ride to the release party!

Any Donation of $10,000 or more, i will introduce you to my all my friends and family and we will take you on a boat cruise of the San Francisco Bay Area, to Bodega Bay for the best oysters in the world, and all the below, and your name will be written in gold in the mentions!

anything else than and ima call Jesus and have em come back to earth and give you magic water, that when you drink, you will become younger, you will live an extra 20 years and Jesus will also give you a super power of your choice.