Kia ora tātou
Welcome to lucasthebaker.
Kō Luke Baker toku ingoa. I’m a cook, writer and multidisciplinary artist working in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.
I stand with a foot in many disciplines – food, performing and installation arts, gardening, sustainability – but the throughline for my practice always seems to center around what we put in our mouths and where it comes from.
This site is a new home for the recipes that I’ve been writing and testing for years, essays on food and the nature of eating, and my creative projects.
Fundamentally I am a cook at heart. Not a chef; not anything fancy. Just a late twenty-something dude who’s been getting people excited about food since his teens. I am also an artist, and I’m leaning into what it means to bring my experience in the māra kai and the kitchen into my creative practice.
Don’t be a stranger. If you read something that lights you up, let’s chat about it.
Luke x
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