01The Notebook · Sketches
An idea does not
arrive as a finished plate.
This is the development desk. Handwritten notes, dish sketches, plating ideas, menu concepts, flavour combinations, rough recipes and unfinished thoughts: the things worth revisiting, and the early versions of dishes before they were corrected and refined.
How a sketch is kept
From a thought
to a result.
Each sketch follows the same path, so an idea can be traced from the moment it appeared to wherever it ended up.
- 01
The thought
What triggered the idea.
- 02
The ingredients
What flavours or products were being considered.
- 03
The first idea
Notes, drawings or early thinking.
- 04
The development
What changed, and why.
- 05
The result
Where the idea eventually led.
- 06
Related
The ingredient, experiment, technique or finished recipe it connects to, where those records exist.
The sketches
The first sketches are being transcribed from Paul's notebooks. They will appear here as they are ready, in his own hand and words.