About my page

Food can be complicated. It is the epitome of sustenance, sustaining echoes of insecurity or status. A complicated and discordant aspect of life bearing symbols far beyond just taste. In 2020, whilst moving across the world to continue my studies, I tried my hardest to independently adjust to a fragmented world riddled with illness, fear, and isolation. Somewhere in that dodgy stretch of time, food, in my world, shed its complexities and became an offering, an olive branch, a bonding tool, and a coping mechanism. 

Anthony Bourdain said, 'Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.’ Seeing that message on a mural in a mews in South Bank made me realize why I had become so quickly attached to the concept of food. It wasn’t necessarily the food itself that made me rethink my life's meaning, purpose, or goal; it is what food does, the light that it shines into a room full of strangers, and the golden string that ties a safe bow around the anxious hoverers at the buffet table. It is a common ground which we all share. Nearly three years later, the food I put on a plate and the recipes I embark on have retained a new kind of complicated, but they still maintain a foundation woven in great love for the process and the meaning of a meal.

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I don’t quite know where I would like food to take me; I’m still ruminating on the end goal and where I want to end up. I do know that I don’t want it to leave me behind, and whatever happens, I hope those foundations stick. I hope meals maintain their novelty. I hope to always sit around a table until the early hours with old and new friends in a never-ending state of ‘still picking’. I think that is why I have begun this page: to extend that offering, olive branch, or bonding tool to anyone who might be interested. A place where I can share the ups and downs of food, the trials and errors, and the honest beauty, physically or symbolically, that food can play in all of our lives. 

So whether it be in the form of recipes, restaurant reviews, stories, or my own journey as someone who is simultaneously teaching herself to be a chef and a person: this is my podium to shamelessly gush over the very thing that keeps us all alive. To talk about life in the context and memory of the meals.

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