Welcome to Em Cookery, a new cooking garden exploring food and the joy of eating through a silly and sensual lens, and digital home to creative Em Estrada.
The website is currently undergoing its first real re-structuring during March and into April 2025.
...There might be some mess.
Mwuahaha!
Thank you for visiting.
–Em
Em Cookery is playfully designed by Em Estrada (they/them), a creative poly-hyphenate, designer, writer, and passionate chef/cook of Indigenous Central American and MENA descent. They call home somewhere through California, GA, and New York City.
Project launch date: 12.08.24
All content is created by Em with love in their home kitchen. The heading font is licensed from Commercial Type. New about page forthcoming.
Copyright 2025. All rights reserved.
One long bio told in factual, plain sentences:
Em is a creative generalist. Or multi-disciplinary, if you will. Em is a designer, for example. For many years, Em’s focus was photojournalism – they centered stories of Indigenous, Black, and folx of color across intersections of the environmental (justice) field. This work took them all across the United States, partnering with organizations and individuals doing important work. On photography, Em’s photo work continues to be published in print and digital form, and they’re currently developing a couple photo art projects. They’re commissioned by brands and organizations such as Patagonia, High Country News, and The Hewlett Foundation, to name three. They’re currently interested in telling more food stories. Em is a writer and editor - they love working on images and copy, and love zines and independent magazine culture. Em got their degree in Linguistics at UCLA. Among solidifying their love for language, it was also influential in learning how to learn. Once upon a time, they took an internship doing habitat restoration in a national park; their neighbors a family of deer and a lazy bobcat.
It was the kick off for all their work in the environmental and sustainability field since.
Other interests include but are not limited to: being outside, identifying plants on hikes, swimming, climbing, sitting with trees, meeting people while doing errands, sprinting with their pup, the contents of this website, music, reading articles discovered in quiet corners of the internet, observing how light hits differently in different parts of the world and, of course, all things food.