Welcome to my cooking website! A new project where I document my journeys into all things food through a bit of writing, recipe (creation and archiving), and a bit of chaos along the way . At the moment, I’d best describe this as a food diary turned into a cooking/recipe blog of sorts.
If it all seems a little random, that makes sense. We’ll see what grows:)
Thank you for visiting<3
–Em
December 8th, 2024
(First day the website came to life!)
This site is created and designed by Em Estrada (they/them), a designer, writer, creative, and [now] cook of Indigenous Central American and MENA descent, based in NYC. The lovely heading font for this website, Ayer, is licensed from Commercial Type.
All content is created by Em in their tiny lil kitchenette. Please feel free to share with attribution.
Copyright 2024. All rights reserved.
And now: a bio told in separate, factual sentences placed together in one long paragraph.
Em is a multi-disciplinary creative. Em is a designer, for example. Em was a photojournalist – they centered stories of Indigenous, Black, and folx of color in the environmental, food, and outdoor fields. Em occasionally writes & publishes poetry. Em’s photo work continues to be published in book, magazine, and digital form. They’ve been commissioned by brands and organizations such as Patagonia, High Country News, and The Hewlett Foundation. Em is an editor - they love working on images and copy, and love zines and independent magazine culture. Em is still occasionally a photographer, though less so these days. Em got their degree in Linguistics at UCLA. Among solidifying their love for language, it was also influential in learning how to learn. Em loves a pattern, loves to learn the roots of things, and loves to make connections between different fields of interest. Once upon a time, they took an internship doing habitat restoration in a national park. It was the kick off for all their work in the environmental and sustainability field since.
Other interests include but are not limited to: identifying plants on hikes, swimming, being silly, climbing, sitting outside with trees, meeting people while doing errands, sprinting with their pup, every thing on this website, music music music, reading articles discovered in quiet corners of the internet, observing how light hits differently in different parts of the world, and you.
Please get in touch if you’d like, whether just to say hi or if you’ve got an idea in mind and I hope you enjoy the site.
I don’t run ads on this website; it also won’t track you when you leave. If you’d like to support to see the growth of this site, you can do so first and foremost by 1. sharing it and also, if you’d like by 2. i (will eventually) accept donations! Unsure if this needs to be stated these days, but: please do not run any part of this website through any kind of AI.
However, please do share this website with a friend:)