Cookbook illustration

Publishing House: Magenta Art Books

Cooking in Sorrow (Готуємо в журбі) by Eugenia Kuznetsova is a humorous book about Ukrainian cuisine, published in 2020. 

My task was to make an illustration of a Ukrainian dish named holubtsi (cabbage rolls or stuffed cabbage, голубці in Ukrainian).
The essay I've illustrated tells about devotion to principles while cooking cabbage rolls.

I suggested a few illustration ideas:
The idea of a landscape won.
Draft:
Final:
Cookbook Illustration
Published: