Welcome to Kindred Kitchen, a place where memory, exploration and communion are the aromas that draw us to the table. My fascination with cooking comes from a consideration of food at the intersection of culture and environment: the particular ingenuity of human beings to transform the raw materials of nature into creations that transcend the basic need cooking aims to satisfy. Food tells fascinating stories of power, politics and migration. More intimately, it tells multifaceted stories of community, belonging, nurture and love.

My enjoyment in the kitchen comes from the tangible sensations that arise from working directly with the product of nature’s bounty—painting, as it were, not just with colours and textures, but also with smells, sounds, tastes and temperatures.

Finally, I’ve long used food and its preparation to fulfill a need for increased health and wellness. From the embodied act of chopping, slicing and mixing and the nurturing act of feeding others, to the social communion of sharing a meal at a table together and the importance of finding a source of nourishment that goes beyond mere nutrition, I’ve made food my language and my pharmacy.

Food and cooking represent my chosen outlet for the universal human urge to create, as well a path to healing and a lens through which I try to understand the endlessly complex world around me. My wish is for you to experience some of the latter two when you taste my cooking.

I hope to share with you the wonder and reverence I feel every time I prepare or taste a dish, for the chain of expertise, inventiveness and care that came before, and also the feeling of wellness that comes from nourishing the body with simple preparations of quality, seasonal ingredients. Please take a seat at my kitchen table. Tap into your innate capacity for awe, curiosity and sensuality. Let yourself be transported to worlds both familiar and unknown.