About

RadioGastronomy is the online journal of apparel designer and chef Krista Brown.  The site seeks to highlight the dining table as the gravitational center of our lives.  The table is a place where family, friends, conversation, nourishment, sensory experiences, and multiple disciplines intersect.  Traditions are perpetuated there.  Bonds are strengthened.  The table is common to us all, but it is far from a common place.

Krista is a graduate of New York City’s prestigious French Culinary Institute.  She pursued formal culinary training there via the 9-month “Classic Culinary Arts” program upon the tragic loss of her foodie father to suicide in June of 2008.  For Krista, it was a way to pick up a long-burning torch that her father dropped, keep it lit, and carry on.  Those intense months in the kitchen proved to be an incredibly healing and positive experience, and she is dedicated to sharing her endeavours at the stove, whether success or failure, with her beloved family, friends, and with her steadily-growing online community.

Krista has worked in several professional kitchens in the New York City area:  L’Ecole at the French Culinary Institute under the guidance of her amazing instructors, at Park Slope’s romantic and socially-conscious Palo Santo under Chef Jacques Gautier, and as part of the historic Montauk Club‘s catering team, cooking for weddings and private events under Chef Mark Usewicz.  She is now the Chef/Owner of Brooklyn Cookworks, which offers private chef services, catering, food delivery, culinary education, and advocacy to clients all over the New York City area.

Additionally a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied apparel design for 3 years after studying the same at Parsons School of Design for 2 years, Krista is also part of the design and production teams at Suno, where she works to create beautiful clothing that is ultimately produced for the market in economically struggling countries like Kenya, Peru, and India.  Krista works all over the world to develop the skills, infrastructure, and fair employment practices necessary for these places to become desirable manufacturing destinations for the global fashion industry.

When Krista is not in the kitchen or the design studio, she can probably be found on an airplane, reading books, writing, taking pictures, listening to music, playing the cello, or snuggling her beloved dog, Sputnik.  Once in a while, she sleeps, too.