This project explores Ferrara Bakery & Caf\u00e9 in Little Italy as a site of cultural memory, tradition, and community within New York City\u2019s Lower East Side. Through collective research, interviews, and site visits, our group examined how food, family businesses, and everyday rituals preserve identity across generations. Founded in 1892, Ferrara Bakery has remained a lasting symbol of Italian-American culture, maintaining its original recipes, family-centered atmosphere, and role as a gathering space despite the neighborhood\u2019s ongoing changes through immigration, tourism, and gentrification. My individual artifact is a handmade bake book that translates this research into a tactile and sensory experience. Inspired by Ferrara\u2019s visual history and the emotional connection people have with food, the book combines illustration, storytelling, recipes, and material experimentation to reflect themes of memory, heritage, and tradition. Using vintage-inspired aesthetics, warm tones, wood sheets, layered collage elements, and butter paper resembling bakery packaging, the project aims to evoke the feeling of flipping through a family recipe collection passed down through generations. The book focuses on how taste, smell, and recipes can act as carriers of memory. Influenced by interviews emphasizing Ferrara\u2019s commitment to preserving its original recipes, the project explores how food reconnects people to childhood, family, and cultural identity. To deepen the sensory experience, the book was also designed with a sweet bakery scent so that while interacting with it, viewers would be reminded of the smell and atmosphere of Ferrara Bakery itself. Through sketches, layered materials, scent, and handmade construction, the bake book reimagines Ferrara Bakery not only as a bakery, but as an archive of immigrant history, family tradition, and shared community experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19882,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19879","student-work","type-student-work","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-integrative-studio-seminar-1"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n