I’m a writer, artist, and editor from Chennai, now in London. My work has been published in Vittles, Kinfolk, Eater London, and the Wellcome Collection among others. Buy my art here!

Other stuff:

🖼️ View my art portfolio.
💌 shelf offering is my weekly newsletter of essays on and around food and culture, and has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Substack Reads, & Taste.
🌱 chlorophyll is the new literary magazine on the block, co-founded by me and Anne Wallentine.
🧀 I’m also the co-founder of CHEESE, the magazine of culture.
👩🏽‍💻 I also helped start a food writing community on Discord for women writers. Join us!
✏️ My latest projects include editing the independent cookbook Sindh as well as the latest issue of PIT magazine. I’m now open to editorial pitches for 2025. Reach me at: contact [at] apoorvasripathi [dot] com

Some of my writing & editing work:

◆ Ongoing recipe column at Something Curated: the latest is on mango rasam.
◆ Crack out the Jell-O mould: 1970s dinner party staples might be worth a second look – Serviette
◆ Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India – Wellcome Collection
◆ The Pleasure and Politics of Eating Mangoes – Vittles
◆ Bigger, better, bao-ier – Kinfolk
◆ Sam Zemurray and America’s banana empire – Eaten
◆ The learner’s dumpling – Whetstone Journal
◆ Milking bodies to make a nation – Feminist Food Journal
◆ Snap, crackle, and flop – enthucutlet
◆ The notorious MSG – PIT
◆ Sub-editing, social media, and freelance writing for Eater London from 2019-2023.
◆ The pantry is an installation – shelf offering
◆ On the extractive exploitation of people by delivery apps – shelf offering
◆ Pies, loneliness, pies – shelf offering
◆ On the construction of a nation – shelf offering