Author, writer, recipe developer, photographer, food blogger, ceramic potter, former graphic designer. Intensely curious about almost everything. Slow Thinker. Older than I look. I love to connect people. He/Him 🏳️‍🌈 Taiwanese-American 📍originally St. Louis –> in San Francisco since 1998 📘 First cookbook: Marbled, Swirled, and Layered (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) listed in the NYT as one of the best baking cookbooks of 2016. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, O Oprah Magazine, Washington Post, SF Chronicle, The Kitchn, Design Sponge and more. 📝 Essay and writing in Best Food Writing 2014, Fine Cooking, The Counter, Simply Recipes and more. 🧂 Recipe developer for brands and website, including Anolon, Safeway, General Mills, Muir Glen, Crock-Pot, Fine Cooking, Simply Recipes, and All Recipes Magazine and more. 📷 IACP-award winning Photographer for companies including BevMo, San Francisco Meals on Wheels, and various private clients. 💻 IACP-nominated, Saveur-nominated blogger at Eat the Love, since 2010. 🏺 Ceramic functionware maker since 2016. Specifically making work for food stylists. Featured by Ceramic Review as an emerging maker on Instagram. Currently not making pottery due to COVID-19 shelter-in-place order. ✈️🚗 Traveler & Roadtrip enthusiast. Two cross country USA road trips, multiple long road trips, hiking and National Park lover (37 out of 63 USA NP), world traveler. Extended living out of our car. Grounded & home due to COVID-19. Ceramic IG at @eatthelove.ceramics 🖥 Former award-winning graphic designer and art director. Clients included Ben & Jerry’s, Wendy’s, Cost Plus World Market, Quiznos, and a bunch of companies that don’t exist anymore.