Reina Gattuso
Atlas Obscura
New Jersey, United States
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Past articles by Reina:
Virginia Woolf and the Complexities of Cottage Loaf
The famous feminist’s love for baking helps us understand her relationship with food, class, and mental illness. → Read More
Eat Like Jane Austen With Recipes From Her Sister-In-Law's Cookbook
Including dishes straight from her novels. → Read More
Help Curate This Vast Trove of Kitchen-Table Remedies
The Archive of Healing includes hundreds of thousands of folk healing traditions from six continents. → Read More
A Field Guide to North America’s Wild Crops
Spot these free-ranging versions of your favorite produce on your next hike. → Read More
Go Beyond the Grocery Store With These Seven Innovative Spice Companies
These seasonings connect you to the communities that produced them. → Read More
This Writer Is Tweeting Everything Sylvia Plath Ever Ate
Busting sexist myths about a famous poet, one tweet at a time. → Read More
This Project Maps 25 Years of New York's Lesbian Nightlife
The interactive tool allows readers to explore how queer social life has changed over time. → Read More
Keep Your Quarantine Garden Growing With These 8 Unique Seed Companies
Grow the plants tailored to your region, passion, or heritage. → Read More
The Battle to Bottle Palm Wine
It’s delicious, cherished, and difficult to commercialize. These entrepreneurs are bringing it to the United States. → Read More
Feast on This Guide to Modern Māori Cooking
A groundbreaking book celebrates New Zealand's indigenous cuisine. → Read More
The Museum Treating Home Cooking as Fine Art
Cook your way through the "Reclamation" exhibition of crowd-sourced recipes, remedies, and magic. → Read More
The Chef Recreating 18th-Century Recipes From a Thrift-Shop Find
Bake an old-timey cake from this handwritten cookbook. → Read More
The Italian Immigrants Who Grew Fig Trees in Unlikely Places
A grassroots group is creating a living library of these backyard gardens. → Read More
Celebrate the Farm Workers Behind Your Favorite Thanksgiving Sides
Organizers are using mesmerizing footage to advocate for better protections and pay. → Read More
In Sydney, a Cafe Serving Aboriginal Food Brings Comfort and Challenges
Nyoka Hrabinsky, an Aboriginal ethnobotanist, is turning “bush tucker” into brunch. → Read More
How to Recreate Your Lost Family Recipes, According to Historians and Chefs
It may not be just like grandma’s, but with observation and a little research, it’ll be pretty darn close. → Read More
A Historical Dig Sheds Light on the Food of the Underground Railroad
Archaeologists found muskrat, turtle, and other edible remains in Harriet Tubman Country. → Read More
The Newest Addition to Denmark’s Happiness Museum: Tomato Seeds
A seed stuck to an old shirt grew into a project that helps bereaved kids heal. → Read More
These Powerful Pins Honored Suffragists Who Were 'Jailed for Freedom'
A century ago, women picketing the White House were beaten and imprisoned for demanding their right to vote. → Read More
A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks Is Now Online, and You Can Help Improve It
It took Barbara Ketcham Wheaton more than 50 years to compile The Sifter. → Read More