Maureen Molly Brandt

I’m a chef. I make fashion edible.

Not literally. Although, give me enough time and I might figure that out, too.

I spend my professional life creating food, but my curiosity has never stayed in the kitchen. Fashion, art, design, history, and the occasional spectacularly obscure rabbit hole. I’m fascinated by the connections between things that seemingly have no business being related.

Case in point: I went looking for vintage jeans and somehow ended up with a @connerives T-shirt, a 1979 Minnesota church cookbook, and a rather unexpected culinary creation.

Naturally, I made an outfit to match.

I’m exploring what happens when I approach getting dressed the way I approach creating a dish: with curiosity, a little irreverence, and an eye for the unexpected.

Sometimes the outfit inspires the food. Sometimes it’s the other way around. The interesting part is everything that happens in between.

The full story, Home-Coming Queen, and the recipe are on my Substack.

Link in bio & for today, Stories. Come down the rabbit hole with me.