splattermark
/ˈsplætəˌmɑːk/nounVerified NewThe stain on a cookbook page marking the only recipe ever cooked from it.
Cookbooks are bought as portraits of a future self; the splattermark is the signature of the one visit that future made. One oil shadow on page 118, out of three hundred untouched pages. The book stays because the stain has become a memento.
Etym. — splatter + mark — a use-marker, the fingerprint of actual cooking in an archive of intention.
Rel. — scrollchef
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