roots & seeds is a newsletter that traces the origins of ingredients through diaspora stories about food, culture, climate, and colonialism.
I’ve spent my whole life searching for a sense of place, of roots. I’m fascinated by how we construct identities around where we come from, how we find meaning in belonging.
Through my writing, I explore the origins of ingredients as seeds of connection to land and to each other. Diaspora communities, access to travel, and the internet have massively increased our exposure to ingredients from around the world, yet most of us still know so little about them—where they come from, how they’re grown, what they look like in their natural habitats.
When we lose our understanding of where our ingredients come from, we lose our connection to the land and people that grow them, the hands that sow and harvest, the rituals and connection to natural cycles of growth and death. This project is my offering and provocation to search for the cross-cultural lineages embedded in the everyday.
