Commonplace Recipes to be enjoyed in a Common Place
My name is Natalie, I live in San Francisco and grew up in the Bay Area in a house where my mom was as likely to make nasi goreng as fresh pesto. My parents’ love for food and travel coupled with the Bay Area’s diverse and farm-focused food scene has instilled in me a love for produce-centric, multi-cultural cooking.
I have started CommonPlace Cooking in hopes of making everyday, accessible recipes that inspire more people to gather in the home’s common place: the kitchen. Food provides me with a medium for creativity, sustainability, relationship building, and cultural exploration. I hope to impart that relationship with food to others via recipes, menu ideas, guides to eating sustainably, and hopefully much more!
I am a firm believer that cooking should be loose, fun, and experimental. I have no formal training, but a deep love for food and a continuous desire to hone my skills and knowledge—knowledge of techniques, dishes, history, the list goes on. I hope I can empower home cooks to take joy in the creative side of cooking, as nothing I make is intended to be a rigid recipe, but rather a blueprint to be built upon.
My personal ethos is that everything tastes better with fresh herbs, friends, and funky music.