print by Alex, etching on paper, 2019

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Uxe Mentale x Kompakt Record Bar at Million Goods
Dec 6
Uxe Mentale x Kompakt Record Bar at Million Goods
Treetop Journeys at Rose Hill Farm
Oct 27
Treetop Journeys at Rose Hill Farm
Everything Alex Cooks at Public Records
Aug 12
Everything Alex Cooks at Public Records

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kong bap
kong bap

In Korean, “kong” means beans and “bap” means rice, translating literally to “bean rice.”

roasted cabbage with gochugaru-brown butter  
roasted cabbage with gochugaru-brown butter  

my food isn’t fusion. my food just makes sense.

Everyday, Everywhere Bar
Everyday, Everywhere Bar

or you can call it, the EEE bar

(Everything alex cooks’ Everyday, Everywhere bar)

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Alex x Wear Many Hats Podcast
Alex x Wear Many Hats Podcast

I talk la-to-nyc, pop-up reflections, citi biking, and more on Wear Many Hats (presented by Dahsar). Listen on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.

alex’s “no-frills” nyc
alex’s “no-frills” nyc

alternatively titled, happy 1-year-anniversary-living-in-NYC to me!

(ok, actually 1 year and 2 months.)

“So You Want to Cook like Everything Alex Cooks?” on Sifted
“So You Want to Cook like Everything Alex Cooks?” on Sifted

Sifted ask me to contribute as a guest editor for their first newsletter of 2022, and I wrote all about my New Years cooking resolutions.

(me, a guest editor? alongside real nyc people in food? cue imposter syndrome.)

let’s catch up.

u are getting . . . hungry. . . .really. . . . .hungry 🫴⏱️😵‍💫, , , mentaiko mafaldine (with salted salmon!)
if you asked me what am i making for dinner this week, and i was like oh just some pesto, …just know it was actually not just some pesto but i said just some pesto because i didn’t know how to explain that i’ve been wanting to make
“ajumma” appears in Pachinko 23 times. i know if i was 18 and i read Pachinko, i would have wrote an ajumma essay—in response to that classic prompt where you pick a word to trace in a text and start off by deep diving into its et
why waste time go to korean restaurant when u are the korean restaurant (¬‿¬)
do u know the feeling when you are making something and you already know….oh the hoes are gonna loooove this (人´∀｀)．☆．。．:*･ﾟ black sesame baklava (with anise & pomelo honey glaze) ☆．。．:*･ﾟ
an Alex walks into a bar and gives you a new recipe. what do you do ? EVERYTHING alex cooks’ EVERYDAY, EVERYTIME bar recipe now up on the blog. (EEE! link in bio!) yes, it calls for miso 😘

Alex.

26.

cooks & writes.

in nyc.