About Me

Hello! 

I am a mathematics graduate from Scripps College who now lives and cooks in New York City. I was born a foodie, and have always loved to eat. In high school, I discovered the food network. I started creating lavish meals based on the inspiration I saw there, and then was further encouraged when a chef at a four star restaurant hired me for my summer breaks in college to work as a prep chef and line cook. 

From there, things spiraled happily out of control. I spent eight months last year traveling around the developing world to write a cook book on rural, traditional, and authentic cuisine, and my experiments with food have only evolved. 

Now, I spend a lot of time playing with recipes from my book-in-progress, tweaking recipes I find in old cookbooks, online, or from friends, and making my own. Baking has been my most invigorating challenge recently, and as such, my tiny oven has been in overdrive.

The newest addition to my culinary repertoire, which has been a slow one, is the discovery of the culinary 'scene.' It is giving me a whole new world of food to enjoy and mimic, which is a great addition to my normally 'people-centered' approach.

I believe wholeheartedly that food should be an experience- not just something we suffer through for sustenance. As such,  my writings here aim to share something of a culture, or an individual, or maybe just a little peek at the 'scene,' but most of them, at the least, demonstrate much of the flavor that come out of my hallway turned kitchen.

So thanks for joining me on this journey. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do.

Kelsey