About Ling

See that picture on the side? I get told all the time that my face lights up when I talk about food. My buddy and I were yakking about where to find the best curry puffs, with the flakiest pastry and the most obscene amount of filling, when he snapped the pic.

Being the greedy person I am, it’s no shocker that I’m greedy when it comes to my bread and butter too. I’m determined to make a living doing what I love – writing. (Offer me a job and I will make you my mom’s award winning satay chicken!)

What you see here is a mini collection of seven food narratives, taken from columns in UMass Dartmouth’s campus paper The Torch and online food site Serious Eats. They are rich in butter and sugar and all that good stuff, while magically low in guilt. They are also chock full of what I like to think of as rough and tumble journeys down rabbit holes and chimney pots in different parts of the world.

I reckon they’re good reading for nosey people like me, and maybe you.

Barefoot in the kitchen will keep growing, with more food narratives joining the crew. There will also be a link to a separate site of published clips of my other great love – feature writing. Meanwhile, you’ll find more of my work at:

• Serious Eats Column: Snapshots from Asia
• Serious Eats Column: Grocery Ninja
• The Torch Column: Eat a Duck I Must
• Leite’s Culinaria Column: Nibblings & Scribblings

I love mail (especially the ones that smell of cookies) and you will find me quite talkative at kitchenslippers AT gmail {dot] com.

Cin cin!

Ling =)