Category: Culture

Boricua Barbacoa: The Journey to Self

(2021 Update)Future Lari here: If you’re interested in illustrated food history essays like this, consider checking out my newsletter, RENDERED. … More

etymology, food history, food questions

Food Questions: Whale Meat

I’ve had a lifelong fascination (or perhaps, more of a love-hate relationship) with whales. At the aquarium as a child, … More

food, food history, food questions, whale meat, whaling

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🎃 Seasonal Illustration✔ I enjoy working in black ink-only pieces, I can focus on my drawing skills. This one was unplanned, a spontaneous exercise I use as a warm-up. If you struggle with artist's block, try it out: just make a shape on the page, and let instinct take over.

🦀 Lobster Roll 🦀 Watercolor and colored pencil, the illustration for this month's narrated essay! Paid subscribers to my newsletter get access to the podcast episode and transcript.

💛 "Space." My latest watercolor self-portrait.

🍋Yuzu! The featured illustration for this month's narrated newsletter on yuzu kosho, or yuzu pepper. In this episode, I ponder the question: "What makes food 'good'?"

"Look Closer, Please." Abstract watercolor and black ink, inspired by recent internal "stuff." Experimenting with how far in different directions I can take my watercolors.

🌿Cilantro illustration for my most recent newsletter, "A Diasporican Pantry." It's my most personal essay to date, and traces the history of selected ingredients in the context of Puerto Rican history, interwoven with personal anecdotes. None of us exist in a vacuum--we have different cultural and familial contexts, and I thought I would write about mine.

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