Buy Beautifully Designed Posters, Plates, Caps and More, and Help Provide Meals to People in Need

Beautifully designed cookbooks can be as handy for home decorating as they are for home cooking. But Melbourne designer Gemma Leslie has taken it one step further, illustrating a series of recipes from leading Aussie chefs in A2-poster form.

The limited-edition posters are available from her online store, Food for Everyone , and from each sale 50 per cent of all profits are donated to food-rescue charities Ozharvest and SecondBite, as well as the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. When she does her next release, Leslie might choose to give the donations to another charity.

Leslie, who lost her job in 2020 because of the pandemic, set up the store in response to the city’s public-housing lockdowns. Charity kitchen Fareshare was providing meals to residents in the towers at the time and she saw how essential its service was.

“I saw everything that was going on … and I just felt like a spectator,” says Leslie. “I had some spare time on my hands, I wanted to help out and I knew some great cooks who wanted to help out, so it kind of clicked.”

The posters are printed on paper made from recycled coffee cups, and the latest run features receipes by Guillaume Brahimi (Bistro Guillaume, SBS Plat du Tour), Simon Gloftis (Hellenika), author Emiko Davies and home cook Jessica Nguyen. There's also a very fun fruit salad poster that pays homage to the growers and stallholders of the Queen Victoria Market.

She's also added other products to her range, include linen tea towels, caps, cutlery and kids T-shirts (our fave is the "More Spaghetti Less Upsetti" one). You can also pre-order lovely plates channelling Euro vibes. The four pack for $170 will help donate 170 meals.

foodforeveryone.org.au

This story was updated on November 25, 2021 to reflect the new release items.