A Good Meal Is Hard to Find presents more than 60 recipes by Martha Hall Foose inspired by the paintings of Amy C. Evans. Novelist Shay Youngblood talks with the two about their collaborative process.

Pearl spiked her drink. And then I made a painting about it. I like to think of my paintings as portraits, each one a document of a specific moment in someone’s life. But the people are strangers, and their stories are told in my imagination.