Melomakarono = a greek seasonal cookie with walnuts and honey.
Find the recipe here
photo of melomakarona
I wanted to create a “Making - Baking” experience with my Cornell box
These cookies mean a lot to my family. There is only one recipe we follow, and that is my grandma’s ( Kassiani, my dad’s mom)! She used to make tons of them, and handed them to us in colorful containers on the first days of December. Parkinson doesn’t allow her to cook anymore. So my mom and ant make the cookies for the whole family now. With this piece I want to contribute to this tradition / since I am not there, and share my grandma’s recipe in a playful interactive way with the world.
Stage I
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Stage III
Stage IV
cardboard prototype for the oven game
Rhino designing the oven for 3d print or laser cutting
Decorating the melomakarono cookie.
From the menu start screen the player chooses a mode. ( 2 modes total ) The first mode features the classic recipe and the second the modern , / a funky twist ..
The classic method the participant simply adds walnuts in the Melomakarono cookie.
Sparkle mode features the chocolate Melomakarono cookie, not so widely accepted from the elder greek population. Because the
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