I google things like how to make pink poached eggs, the origins of asparagus, what to forage in Northern California and how to pickle green almonds. That sentence probably tells you everything you need to know about me, but if you’re still curious.. I grew up in Woodside, California (a town with more horses than people) with a fiery, Mexican mother and an unfalteringly productive father from Kansas. The dynamic pair encouraged me to pursue any suspicion of passion from the days where I thought I wanted to be a singer, putting me immediately in chorus (HUGE mistake) to thinking I could be a scientist because I asked so many questions- though Dad immediately seemed to regret conversations where he began to field such inquiries. It would come as no surprise to “younger me,” for that matter, to hear that my unwavering underpinnings of food through school projects, after school activities and go-to gifts for deserving friends weaved their way into not only a job in hospitality but a restaurant of my own.

This is the collection of the things I’ve recently googled, the recipes I’ve whipped up when not at work and the manifestation of a food lover turned food writer.

Jacky Falkenberg

is twenty five and lives in San Francisco, CA.