ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the representation of food in the Singaporean graphic memoir. While Singaporean memoirs, whether textual or graphic, are only just beginning to attract scholarly notice they are an increasingly visible component of Singaporean cultural production. The graphic memoir is, as is memoir more widely, a non-fiction narrative that "depicts the lives of real, not imagined, individuals". In the graphic memoirs, the representation of food narrates much more than recipes or culinary memories. The realistic representation of dishes and drinks does, however, assist in signifying other ideas, including those that are common to many graphic memoirs in Singapore. The portrayal of food and cookery in Miel Prudencio Ma Rosales' Scene Gapore represents the most foundational, directly representational manner in which food is used in Singaporean graphic memoirs. Food plays a key role in "Mayonnaise", one of the title stories in Drewscape's collection of comic short stories, Monsters, Miracles and Mayonnaise.
