Growing up, my favorite bedtime story was "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote. I loved how Capote recounted his memories of gathering ingredients and baking fruitcakes with his cousin. I resonated deeply with the emotions that gifting the cakes to his loved ones brought up. Throughout my life, I have used my love of baking as a way of understanding the world's complex and interdisciplinary relationship with food. Academically, my interests in cuisine and people have evolved into a major in Anthropology with a food studies concentration where I have learned about the global food system and analyzed food's role in communities. In addition, I manage a team of bakers at Coffee Grounds, a student run coffee shop, where I have restructured the baking program to make it more profitable while still encouraging creativity from the team of bakers. I believe that food is a wonderfully basic and universally understood storyteller and in the future I hope to use my interest in baking and food writing to continue telling stories and bringing people together.