Author Archive for Bao Ong

I’m perpetually obsessed with food ⎯ eating, cooking, reading, watching and reporting about it. Mostly eating. From the top-ten fried chicken restaurants to the politics of consuming sustainable fish, everything culinary-related is on my mind. When I wake up, I’m already thinking about dinner. But supporting this at times expensive ritual, I only have my poor-paying journalism skills to rely on. For two years I worked as a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press (but never sampled lutefisk). I then uprooted myself to New York City, where I enrolled in the French Culinary Institute and somehow managed to graduate in June 2009 without suffering a heart attack after consuming what I’m sure was a stick of butter each week. These days I’m subsisting on coffee as a student at Columbia University studying arts and culture reporting.