L. Sasha Gora is a cultural historian and writer with a focus on food studies, the environmental humanities, and contemporary art. Her work probes the relationship between eating and ecology, cuisine and climate change, restaurants and representation. In 2023 she joined the University of Augsburg, where she leads the research group Off the Menu: Appetites, Culture, and Environment.
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, C Magazine, Eaten, Highsnobiety, Berlin Review, 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.
Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada, her first book, will be published in March 2025 by the University of Toronto Press as part of the Culinaria series.
Her favourite and sharpest knife, from Jagalchi Fish Market in Busan, was photographed by Vivi D'Angelo.