about stinky bento

If you believe that a dish is so much more than the sum of its ingredients, that cooking and eating food is not only a sensory, but emotional, political, and spiritual experience, then this newsletter might just be for you.

I gravitate towards short-form food memoir but really anything goes here – socio-cultural commentary, essays, recipe testing, stupid restaurant concepts, you name it. The goal is to be thoughtful with my words, but not precious. I hope for my work to be candidly subversive to our notions of yuck and yum, but not without ample self-flagellation and self-interrogation. I want to question why we eat what we eat but in doing so, I will also question myself. This is my practice in curiosity, my fight against perfectionism, and my exercise in authenticity.

Subscribe if you’d like to learn alongside me. Welcome to my rotating platter of food memories, my lazy susan of stories. I hope you’ll stay awhile, just remember to take off your shoes.