Hello friends! Today I bring you another missive from the land of the chronically unemployed. So many changes are unfolding for this space, the most notable being that the Cosmic Co-Op finally has a website! Look at us. All grown up.

For this episode, I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with queer Venusian chef and kitchen revolutionary Sydney Chin. We talked about food, yes, but also about pleasure and what it means to truly love food–not just cooking or serving it, but honoring it as art form, mutual aid, and ancestral technology.

Sydney and I dug into the realities of the restaurant industry, the ...