Jessica Kehinde Ngo

Jessica Kehinde Ngo is a Los Angeles based writer. She teaches writing and food literature at Otis College of Art and Design and leads a food memoir writing workshop for the Creative Nonfiction Foundation.

Plantains in a green circle surrounded by multicolored maps from nigeria, india, and the caribbean January 2022.
Publish the plantain: Why this venerable, global fruit deserves a book of its own
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by Jessica Kehinde Ngo
01.21.2022
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Rewrites collage of Jessica Ngo in black and white, with binder paper, graph paper, tape, yellow chalk and a green hand planting seeds. July 2021
Who gets to call themselves a food writer? The pandemic made it clear: We all do.
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by Jessica Kehinde Ngo + Joe Fassler
07.12.2021
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