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    Compound Butter magazine: merging food and art

    Jessie and Jaya Nicely  are the brains behind Compound Butter   magazine, in which personal vignettes about food are often accompanied by wildly creative illustrations and eye-catching photography.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Dec 12, 2018 • 1 min read

    Jessie and Jaya Nicelyare the brains behind Compound Buttermagazine, in which personal vignettes about food are often accompanied by wildly creative illustrations and eye-catching photography. The cousins describe their venture as “a publication about food, art, and all the things in between.”

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    3 of 6
    2018’s best cookbooks and restaurant openings
    1. 0:002018’s best cookbooks with Omnivore Books’ Celia Sack
    2. 11:29Whetstone Media champions local food and new voices
    3. 19:38Compound Butter magazine: merging food and artYou’re reading this
    4. 29:00Anita Lo goes “Solo” in new cookbook
    5. 39:02A look back at LA’s restaurant openings in 2018
    6. 48:20Market Report: Meyer Lemons
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      Evan Kleiman

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    The full episode

    3 of 6
    2018’s best cookbooks and restaurant openings
    1. 0:002018’s best cookbooks with Omnivore Books’ Celia Sack
    2. 11:29Whetstone Media champions local food and new voices
    3. 19:38Compound Butter magazine: merging food and artYou’re reading this
    4. 29:00Anita Lo goes “Solo” in new cookbook
    5. 39:02A look back at LA’s restaurant openings in 2018
    6. 48:20Market Report: Meyer Lemons
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