Publications: Eat Your Carrot Cake

Institute 193 is excited to announce Eat Your Carrot Cake, a cookbook and community history of Lexington's Alfalfa Restaurant, forthcoming from Marina Ubaldi Ritter and Lucinda Zoe with Michael Kelsey and the Carrot Cake Collective. 

Eat Your Carrot Cake will be a 9½“ x 7½“, 4-color book of nearly 400 pages co-published by Institute 193  and Butler Books in Louisville. Contents include the origin story of the restaurant, a photo album and scrapbook featuring over 100 black & white photos and archival images, 130 recipes, and original artwork by eight Kentucky artists. In addition to photos collected from the community, Kentucky photographer Guy Mendes documented Alfalfa for many decades and is contributing his collection of Alfalfa anniversary photos to the project. 

It is your support that will bring this book to life! We are actively fundraising to print the first edition now. Head to our fundraiser page and donate today.

Sasha Tycko
Softcover
8 x 5 inches / 16 pages
Pub Date: 2025
Publisher: Institute 193
Printed on risograph by Grotesk Press in Lexington Kentucky. Edition of 125.