L. Sasha Gora is a cultural historian and writer with a focus on food studies, the environmental humanities, and contemporary art. Her work probes the relationship between eating and ecology, restaurants and representation, cuisine and climate. She earned her PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, for which she received the Bavarian American Academy Dissertation Award. In 2023 she joined the University of Augsburg, where she leads the Off the Menu: Appetites, Culture, and Environment research group.

From the politics of serving wild game to figurative painting and feminism and from cookbooks by artists to her (strong) feelings about potato chips, her writing has been published by Gastronomica, C Magazine, Eaten, Highsnobiety, Berlin Review, Arts of the Working Class, and others. She has given talks at institutions such as Ocean Space, Venice, SNU Institute for Culture and Arts, Seoul, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and alongside her scholarship she has a creative practice where she collaborates with artists, chefs, and curators to craft discursive food experiences. In 2022 she was a Politics of Food resident at Delfina Foundation, London, and in 2024 a Labrador Current Foodways resident at Fogo Island Arts, Newfoundland.

Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada, her first book, was published in 2025 by the University of Toronto Press. She is currently writing her second monograph, Tuna: A Global History, for Reaktion Books.

Her favourite and sharpest knife, from Jagalchi Fish Market in Busan, was photographed by Vivi D'Angelo.