L. Sasha Gora is a cultural historian and writer with a focus on food studies, the environmental humanities, and contemporary art. Her work investigates the relationship between eating and ecology, cuisine and culture, restaurants and representation. In 2023 she joined the University of Augsburg, where she leads Off the Menu: Appetites, Culture, and Environment—a research group dedicated to the culinary environmental humanities.
From the politics of serving wild game in restaurants to figurative painting and feminism and from cookbooks by artists to her (strong) feelings about potato chips, her writing has been published by Gastronomica, BBC Travel, Eaten, C Magazine, Arts of the Working Class, and others. She has given talks at institutions such as Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, and Ocean Space, Venice, and currently serves as an elected board member of the Association of the Study of Food And Society and as part of the Editorial Collective of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Her first book, titled Culinary Claims, is forthcoming from the Culinaria series at the University of Toronto Press.
Her favourite and sharpest knife, from Jagalchi Fish Market in Busan, was photographed by Vivi D'Angelo.